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