The eight authors of this text work as a team within the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute to develop and communicate effective software architecture methods and practices.
Their guide is written for software architects and technical writers responsible for producing architectural documentation for software projects, to assist those practitioners in deciding what architecture information should be documented and how to describe it so that others can perform their architecture-based work (implementation, analysis, recovery). Coverage includes uses of software architecture documentation, architectural views, and packaging the information into a coherent whole.