Software Architectures

Course name: Software Architectures
Course number: XYZ
Knowledge area: Software Engineering

Administrative details

Faculty: Computer Science and Engineering
Year of instruction: 4th year of BS
Semester of instruction: 1st semester
No. of Credits: 4 ECTS
Total workload on average: 144 hours overall
Class lecture hours: 2 per week
Class tutorial hours: 2 per week
Lab hours: 2 per week
Individual lab hours: 0
Frequency: weekly throughout the semester
Grading mode: letters: A, B, C, D

Prerequisites

Introduction to Programming I
Introduction to Programming II
Data Modelling and database
Operating Systems
Computer Architecture

Course outline

Software developers often follow architectural and design patterns informally without a deep understanding of the subject. This prevents the delivered software to work optimally and often to meet functional and nonfunctional requirements. The course provides a detailed understanding of software architectures and design pattern and how they should be used by software developers and in the software engineering process.

Expected learning outcomes

Understand the principles and foundations of software architectures
Understanding design patterns and their use
Develop high quality software meeting requirements
Realizing how architectural issues can impact software design
Understanding formal notations and specifications with related tools

Expected acquired core competences

System design
Requirements elicitation
Organization of software systems
Use of design patterns
Fluency with formal notations and supporting tools

Detailed topics covered in the course

The topics below are presented with the granularity of at most the academic hour of instruction. For each topic it is specified if it an Introduction to the topic, a Deep explanation, or a Review of a subject already covered in another course.

Software Design and development
Software Process
Component-based
Monolithic application
Layered
Pipes and filters
Shared memory
Database-centric
Blackboard
Rule-based
Messaging
Event-driven
Publish-subscribe
Asynchronous messaging
Introduction to design pattern
Creational patterns
Structural patterns
Behavioral patterns
Concurrency patterns
Formal specification languages
Tool for formal specification

Textbook

Reference material

Slides will be provided during the course

Required computer resources

Students are required to have laptops.

Evaluation

Mid-term exam (30%)
Final exam (40%)
Project (30%)

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