Software Architecture in the Agile Life Cycle

This article proposes a set of techniques and practices to leverage the agile approach to software architecture—increasing overall quality, streamlining development practices, and providing business value as a constant flow. The article describes issues that are related to component APIdesign and behavior-driven design, continuous measurement of complexity, automated quality-attribute evaluation, and design rationale recording. The reader should take away from the article several techniques to research and try, a basic development life cycle, and some leads for further investigation