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The Defenestration of Superfluous Architectural Accoutrements
July/August 2009 (vol. 26 no. 4)
pp. 7-8
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Grady Booch, "The Defenestration of Superfluous Architectural Accoutrements," IEEE Software, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 7-8, July/August, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MS.2009.105,
author = {Grady Booch},
title = {The Defenestration of Superfluous Architectural Accoutrements},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {26},
number = {4},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {2009},
pages = {7-8},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2009.105},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Simple architectures have conceptual integrity and are better than more complex ones. Continuous architectural refactoring helps to converge a system to its practical and optimal simplicity.

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Index Terms:
software architecture, refactoring, conceptual integrity
Citation:
Grady Booch, "The Defenestration of Superfluous Architectural Accoutrements," IEEE Software, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 7-8, July/Aug. 2009, doi:10.1109/MS.2009.105
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