On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Mark Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I say, I haven't read the book. If you say there's a model there, > then great. But none of his top several cited papers seem to have > anything to do with a model, so perhaps it wasn't very popular. > Editions of his book prior to the Foundations paper are not highly > cited (~25).
Not to reopen this can of worms when you and Steve have just closed it, but I checked out the Sommerville slide deck that Steve referenced ( http://sunset.usc.edu/~neno/cs477_2003/February11.ppt). Slide 10 is entitled "Definitions of Software Architecture" and it lists three definitions. The first is Perry and Wolf, the second is Shaw and Garland, and the third is Kruchen. As far as I can tell, Sommerville does not offer his own definition of Software Architecture in the deck. And he certainly doesn't date it. So on the surface it appears that Sommerville credits others with defining Software Architecture. -- Nick
