Views and Beyond – Templates

Views and Beyond are a set of architecture patterns for documenting a software system.

They have three categories of view styles:

  1. Module
    • Decomposition
    • Uses
    • Generalization
    • Layered
    • Aspects
    • Data Model
  2. Component & Connector
    • Call-Return
    • Data Flow
    • Event-Based
    • Repository
  3. Allocation View
    • Deployment
    • Install
    • Work Assignment
    • Other Allocation

The following link provides a word template for views and beyond documentation:

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/architecture/tools/document/viewsandbeyond.cfm