Software Design and Architecture: Course Outline

Introduction to Software Design

• Introduction to Software Architecture
• Introduction to Software Design
• Design Vs. Architecture

Software Architecture Core Concepts

• Define Software Architecture
• Architecture Address NFR
• Architectures and Technologies

Software Architecture Business Cycle

• Where do architecture comes from
• Software process and architecture business cycle
• What makes a good architecture

Software Architecture Business Cycle

• Activities in software process and architecture business cycle
• Architectural Structures and views

Quality Attributes in Software Architecture

• Motivation
• What are the different Quantity attributes
• Performance, Scalability, Modifiability, Security, Availability, Robustness
• How to Achieve quality attributes at architectural level

Software Architecture Process

• Process Outline
• Architecture Design
• Validation

Case Study (solution)

• Architecture Patterns
• Structural View
• Behavioural View
• Implementation Issues

Documenting Software Architecture

• Architecture Requirements
• Solution
• Architecture Analysis

Introduction to design

• Introduction to Unified modelling language (UML)
• Structural and behavioural diagrams

Introduction to design

• Introduction to Unified modelling language (UML)
• Structural and behavioural diagrams

Activity

• Modeling structural (class diagram) and behavioral diagram (use case, sequence diagram and state machine diagram) of online shopping application

Introduction to Software Product Line engineering

• Overview
• What makes SPL works
• Architectures for Product Lines

Aspect Oriented Architecture

• Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming (basic concepts)
• Aspect oriented architecture
• Aspect oriented Modelling using UML
• Aspect Oriented Modelling tools

Model-Driven Architecture

• What is MDA?
• Why MDA?
• State of the Art Practices and Tools