有人能解释一下软件设计和软件架构的区别吗?

更具体地说;如果你让别人给你展示“设计”——你希望他们展示什么?“建筑”也是如此。

我目前的理解是:

设计:系统特定模块/部分的UML图/流程图/简单线框(用于UI) 架构:组件图(显示系统的不同模块如何相互通信以及如何与其他系统通信),要使用什么语言,模式……?

如果我说错了,请指正。我提到了维基百科在http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_design和http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_architecture上有文章,但我不确定我是否理解正确。


当前回答

Good question... Although the line between them is hardly a bright sharp line, imho, if you are using both terms, then Architecture encompasses more technical or structural decisions about how to build or construct something, especially those decisions that will be hard (or harder) to change once implemeneted, whereas Design encompasses those decisions that either are easy to change later (like method names, class <-> file organizational structure, design patterns, whether to use a singleton or a static class to solve some specific problem, etc. ) and/or those that effect the appearance or esthetic aspects of a system or application (Human Interface, ease of use, look and feel, etc.)

其他回答

...long time ago in a faraway place philosophers worried about the distinction between the one and the many. Architecture is about relationship, which requires the many. Architecture has components. Design is about content, which requires the one. Design has properties, qualities, characteristics. We typically think that design is within architecture. Dualistic thinking gives the many as primordial. But architecture is also within design. It's all how we choose to view what is before us - the one or the many.

体系结构是用于构建系统的设计模式的最终集合。

我猜设计是用来把所有这些放在一起的创造力?

就我个人而言,我喜欢这个:

“设计师关心的是当一个用户按下一个按钮时会发生什么,而架构师关心的是当一万个用户按下一个按钮时会发生什么。”

由Mark Cade和Humphrey Sheil编写的Java™EE学习指南

非常主观,但我的观点是:

体系结构 系统的总体设计,包括与其他系统的交互、硬件要求、整体组件设计和数据流。

设计 整个系统中一个组件的组织和流程。这还包括该组件用于与其他组件交互的API。

在我看来,架构只不过是一个愿景,以正确的方式收集需求并构建构建块

在设计中,构建特定的块可能有100种解决方案,但为了满足具体的要求,我们需要选择正确的方法,所以选择正确的方法或算法不是设计吗