Software Architecting (2II45 Owinfo)

2007-2008

Dr. M.R.V. Chaudron

Check OWINFO for the most recent schedule.

Mondays 1^st and 2^nd hour

Location: Auditorium 10

News

- Feedback on CNS assignment

- Results UML test dd 22 Oct 2007

- Assignment Tooling:
Recommended is to use a Rational Tool.
If this is not available to you, use ArgoUML: http://argouml.tigris.org/

- Links to usability:
- usability guidelines

- paper on quantitative usability scenario’s

- An assignment is available here.

Excel sheets for ranking use cases and scenario’s can be found here.
Students can work on it in teams of 2 persons.

Deadlines:

19^th of November draft of your design,

10^th of December 2007 final version all documents.

- For Monday 22^nd of October an assignment is scheduled.

The assignment is about understanding UML designs.

The assignment is to be performed individually and to be completed in the lecturing-slot (8:45-10:30)

Recommended books:

I recommend that you use the following book to read up on the material discussed in the lectures:

Software Architecture in Practice, Second edition, Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman, Addison-Wesley.	If you have little experience with UML, I recommend to also study Large Scale Software Architecture by Garland & Anthony, Wiley, 2002. This book pays more attention to the UML than the BCK book and includes some practical ‘how-to’ chapters based on industrial experience.

Guidelines for Good Design:

- The Top 10 Elements of Good Software Design

The preliminary schedule below is under construction

Lecture #	Date	Loc Check OWINFO	Topic (click for presentation)	Homework Material
	27 aug		No lecture
1	3 sept	Aud.10	Introduction	Book BCK, Ch. 1 & 2 SMART requirements
2	10 sept	Aud.10	Definition and Architectural Views	Kruchten 4+1 check Studyweb for IEEE1471 Book BCK: Ch. 4.
3	17 sept	Aud.10	Software Metrics and Architecture joint with Christian Lange	Kruchten 4+1 check Studyweb for IEEE1471 Rational Design SA description – IEEE stnd - supporting website IEEE1471
4	24 sept	Aud.10	Requirements Engineering	SMART requirements Sections 1.1 and 1.2 (remainder is optional) of documenting architectural layers
	1 october		Inhaalweek
5	8 october	Aud.10	Architectural Styles Client/Server, Pipe and Filter, Blackboard	Chapter 3 from Shaw & Garlan - recommended: Client-Server Computing-
6	15 oct	Aud.10	UML modeling and Architectural Styles – part 2 Publish-Subscribe, P2P, OO, layering	Chapter 3 from Shaw & Garlan
7	22 oct	Aud.10	Assignment: understanding UML designs	-
8	29 oct	Aud.10	Performance Analysis, Tactics and Pitfalls	- Performance Analysis of Software Architectures (using Queueing Networks) - Performance evaluation using UML - Incremental Performance Validation using UML diagrams
9	5 nov	Aud.10	Dependability and Fault Tolerance Reliability Block Diagrams	Book BCK: Chapter 11. - Reliability Block Diagrams - Dependability Concepts (Laprie) (click on IEEE subscribers)
	12 nov		Inhaalweek
10	19 nov	Aud.10	Security Scenario-based Architecture Evaluation	- ATAM paper - ATAM-Technical Report
11	26 nov	Aud.10	Model Driven Architecting by Wim Bast	- An introduction to Model Driven Architecture - MDA Explained (book)
12	3 dec	Aud.10	Software Architecting in Medical X-ray Imaging Systems – guest lecture by Pierre America (Philips Medical Systems)
13	10 dec		Component-based SW Engineering
14	17 dec
			Assignment
			Final Exam 18 jan 2008

These scheduling of these topics may be change or shortened to also incorporate lectures on:

- Tactics (Security, Reliability, Performance)

- Middleware

Interesting material on Software Architecting can be found at

- Utrecht (Gert Florijn)

- Digital Architect (Daan Rijsenbrij)

- Gaudi project (Gerrit Muller)

- Waterloo (Rick Kazman)

- Gugenheim Bilbao

Last updated: Tuesday, 04 December 2007