Software Engineering

Chapter 12: Configuring the Physical Architecture.
 This chapter describes 
the purpose and strategy for arranging and specifying the software product’s 
physical architecture. The physical architecture identifies the foundational 
building-blocks for software unit design, coding, and testing. The software 

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integration strategy is developed to identify the product structure and prescribes 
how the software units and components are to be incrementally combined, inte-
grated, and tested to form the complete software product.