Section 1: Principles and Methodologies

This section focuses on architectural principles and development methodologies that we use throughout the book. These introductory chapters are essential for progressing toward making great architectural decisions.

We first look at how to approach the book itself, explore prerequisites, and see a few helpful topics. Then, we cover automated testing and xUnit, to finally jump into the architectural principles, where we begin our study of the fundamentals of modern software engineering.

This section comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Introduction
• Chapter 2, Automated Testing
• Chapter 3, Architectural Principles