Design, Integration, and Testing
How is it that we can declare Mozart’s and Beethoven’s composed music as masterpieces? Was this determined by people merely reading the sheet music? Of course not – we acknowledge these composers’ brilliance when we actually hear the music. Similarly, while an architecture may be well conceived, it remains merely a paper artifact until executed.
This chapter provides practical insights into how architecture supports the design, integration, and testing phases of AI system development. We focus on the production pipeline because the development pipeline is often domain-dependent and not intended for production environments.
In this chapter, we will discuss the following:
- Design fundamentals
- System mode and state identification
- Logical component definition
- System tactics and patterns
- Integration approaches
- Testing
