Software Engineering

partitions have been coalesced and represent a unified software architecture.
Architectural element identification facilitates the following actions to:
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  Track architectural elements to the design artifacts in which they are 
characterized.
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Partition
, as used herein, refers to a subdivision of the software architectural representation. Each 
partition involves one of the following subdivisions: (1) the requirements baseline, (2) the functional 
architecture, or (3) the physical architecture. 
Allocate
 means to assign, apportion, or distribute among 
constituent parts. It can imply an allocation within a partition of the architecture (among elements 
within the boundaries of a single partition) or between partitions of the software architecture.

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