+++ date = "2016-04-16" draft = false title = """Architecture Documents""" slug = "architecture-documents" tags = ['revision', 'software development', 'uml', 'design'] banner = "" aliases = ['/architecture-documents/'] +++ Continuing our tour of the software engineering life cycle we're looking at documentation in the design stage. Architecture documentation is important because it's used as the basis for further design decisions, quality assurance, and project management.