Assessing Design Quality From a Software Architectural Perspective

White Paper
This whitepaper argues that effective object-oriented design depends on both object and class design and the architectural framework governing interactions.
Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

Abstract

In this paper, we take the position that good object oriented designs accrue from attention to both the design of objects and classes and to the architectural framework which defines how instances of those classes interact. We argue that an architecture should be assessed for conceptual integrity, and describe tool support for making such an assessment.