Software Engineering

8.4.4 
Identify architectural guidelines and principles
The architectural guidelines and principles need to be established that will gov-
ern the evolution of the software architecture throughout the software product life 
cycle. These guidelines and principles should address the business and quality 
objectives for the software product, and should provide governing concepts for the 
structure of the product and its ability to adapt to changes in the technology compo-
nents of the computational environment. In addition, these guidelines and principles 
should address the perspectives of various participants in the software life cycle 
(user, designer, tester, supporter, etc.). The architecture guidelines and principles 

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