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Len Bass, Paul Clements and Rick Kazman’s Software Architecture in Practice is a comprehensive book on the definition and explanation of software architecture. The book discusses and demonstrates its significance in software system design through several real-world examples and case studies. It also comprises of the architecture business cycle, quality attributes, achieving qualities, case studies like Air Traffic Control, Flight Simulation, and The World Wide Web among others.  This edition also covers Architecture design and analysis, including ATAM, documenting architectures using UML and many solved examples for better understanding of the topics. The book is essential for VTU Computer Science and Information Science students. About the Authors Len Bass is the Senior Principal Researcher at the Australian Technology Park and the Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). He is an award-winning author of Software Architecture textbooks. Len has also authored Architecture-based Design of Multi-agent Systems. Paul Clements is the author of Computer Science engineering textbooks. He is a professor at the Software Engineering Institute. Rick Kazman is the Research Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute and is also the faculty in the University of Hawaii. His areas of research and expertise are Software Architecture, Design and Analysis Tools, Software Engineering Economics and Software Visualization. He has also authored Evaluation Software Architectures: Methods and Case Studies.