CSIE 5905134
Fall 2009
Software
Architecture
announcements general
information schedule resource
Announcements: (Return to top of
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0820 Course Schedule Planning
Instructor: (Return to top of page)
Dr. Y C Cheng,
Professor of CSIE
web: http://www.ntut.edu.tw/~yccheng/sa2009/sa.htm
class meetings: WED 2~4
Office hours: WED 5~6,
FRI 5~6
Teacher Assistant (TA):
Tien-Song
Hsu
Office: Science & Technology Research Building
1321. Phone: extension 4263
Office hours: TUE 6-7, THU 6-7
Email: s4599002@ntut.edu.tw
About homework: All homework
assignments are due in class
Textbook:
- M Jackson,
Software
Requirements and Specifications: A Lexicon of Practice, Principles and
Prejudices (ACM Press), (Paperback), 1995
- Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman, Software
Architecture in Practice, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2003
Reference books:
- Problem Frames: Analysing & Structuring Software
Development Problems ISBN: 020159627X Michael Jackson Addison-Wesley
Professional 2000
- Evaluating Software Architectures: Methods and Case Studies
ISBN: 020170482X Paul Clements, Rick Kazman, Mark Klein Addison-Wesley
Professional 2001
- Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond ISBN:
0201703726 Paul Clements, Felix Bachmann, Len Bass, David Garlan, James
Ivers, Reed Little, Robert Nord, Judith Stafford Addison-Wesley
Professional 2002
- Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 1: A System of
Patterns ISBN: 0471958697 Frank Buschmann, Regine Meunier, Hans Rohnert,
Peter Sommerlad, Michael Stal Addison-Wesley Professional 1996
- Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 2: Patterns for
Concurrent and Networked Objects ISBN: 0471606952 Douglas Schmidt, Michael
Stal, Hans Rohnert, Frank Buschmann Addison-Wesley Professional 2000
Course Description:
Software
requirements; envisioning, creating, and analyzing architecture of software
intensive systems; case studies; architectural patterns
Prerequisites:
Grading policy
- homework (6 assignments) 40%
- midterm, 30%
- Term project, 30%
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Week
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Course
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Reading/Homework/Test
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1 (9.14-9.18, 3 hr)
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1. Course introduction: why from POSA to
SA to SA+ Jackson?
2. Intro (desription technologies) Jackson
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2 (9.21-9.25, 3 hrs)
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Tour - An Overview
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3 (9.28-10.2, 3 hrs)
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Tour - The system and the World
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hw 1:
problem context diagram
Due: Oct. 14
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4 (10.5-10.9, 3 hrs)
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Tour - Different kinds of description
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5 (10.12-10.16, 3 hrs)
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Tour - Describing the world (except OOA,
Hierarchical Structure)
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6 (10.19-10.23, 3 hrs)
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Phenomenology - OOA, Hierarchical
Structure, Identity, Event and interval
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hw 2:
software requirements
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7 (10.26-10.30, 3 hrs)
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homework 1 discussion
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8 (11.2-11.6, 3 hrs)
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Midterm
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reference
solution
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9 (11.9-11.13)
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Technology of description, structure of
description - classification, scope, span, partial description, models, mood,
requirements, specifications, multi-frame problem; problem frames
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10 (11.16-11.20, 3 hrs)
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Ch 1:Architecture Business Cycle
Ch 2: What is Software Architecture
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Reading:
4+1 view of software architecture
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11 (11.23-11.27, 3 hrs)
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Ch3: case study
Ch 4: Understanding Quality Attributes
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12 (11.30-12.4, 3 hrs)
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Ch 5: Achieving Qualities
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hw 3:
quality attribute scenarios
Due to 12/16
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13 (12.7-12.11, 3 hrs)
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Ch 6: Air Traffic Control
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14 (12.14-12.18, 3 hrs)
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Ch 7: Designing the Architecture
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hw 4:
tactics for modifiability
Due to 12/30
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15 (12.21-12.25, 3 hrs)
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Ch 9: Documenting software architecture
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16 (12.28-1.1, 1 hrs)
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Ch 11: The ATAM
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Final
Report: ATAM, Sample
Due to 1/13
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17 (1.4-1.8, 3 hrs)
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Case study: SyncFree
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SyncFree
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18 (1.11-1.15)
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Term project due
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Resource: (Return to
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Reference (last updated: 2009/08/20)