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Software Architecture with Python

You're reading from   Software Architecture with Python Design and architect highly scalable, robust, clean, and high performance applications in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468529
Length 556 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anand Balachandran Pillai Anand Balachandran Pillai
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Principles of Software Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Modifiable and Readable Code 3. Testability – Writing Testable Code 4. Good Performance is Rewarding! 5. Writing Applications that Scale 6. Security – Writing Secure Code 7. Design Patterns in Python 8. Python – Architectural Patterns 9. Deploying Python Applications 10. Techniques for Debugging Index

Aspects related to Modifiability


We have already seen some aspects of modifiability in the previous chapter. Let us discuss this a bit further, and look at some of the related quality attributes that are closely related to modifiability:

  • Readability: Readability can be defined as the ease with which a program's logic can be followed and understood. Readable software is code that has been written in a specific style, following guidelines typically adopted for the programming language used, and whose logic uses the features provided by the language in a concise, clear way.

  • Modularity: Modularity means that the software system is written in well-encapsulated modules, which do very specific, well-documented functions. In other words, modular code provides programmer friendly APIs to the rest of the system. Modifiability is closely connected to Reusability.

  • Reusability: This measures the number of parts of a software system, including code, tools, designs, and others, that can be reused in other...

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