Software Architecture (Spring 2017)

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Instructor: Dr. Ying Shen (沈莹) (yingshen@tongji.edu.cn)

TA: TBA

Evaluation: assignments (50 points), presentation (20 points), software architecture documents(20 points), participation (10 points)

Latest Notices

Lecture Slides

Assignments and Projects

Notes:

1. Compress all files into a .rar file whose name is composed of student name and ID.

2. All the documents you hand in should be in English.

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Requirement details for the program, report and presentation:

Program (10 points)

• You should submit your programs for four assignments and a readme file with instructions on how to run the program.

Report (40 points)

• You should answer all the questions proposed in assignments and write your answers in the report.

• Your report can be organized as:
  
  Statement of Question 1
  Your answer
  Statement of Question 2
  Your answer
  ...

• The answers should contain adequate details to clearly elaborate your ideas. Be aware that the report is more important than the program.

Presentation (20 points, 20 min)

As you have been given the requirements of the Advertisement Management System, you should finish the first iteration of ADD method applied to this system.
Your presentation should reveal the process of the first iteration of ADD method.
You can prepare your presentation materials following the way as shown in the slide (Garage Door Opener System).

In detail, your presentation should consist of the following parts:

1. A brief introduction to the system and its functional, quality requirements as well as constrains (if applicable).
2. Choose the module to decompose.
3. Refine the module, which includes:
• Choose architectural drivers;
• Choose architectural pattern and tactics;
• Instantiate modules and allocate functionality using multiple views;
• Define interfaces of child modules;
• Verify and refine use cases and quality scenarios and make the constraints for child modules.
4. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of selected architecture.

Software architecture document (20 points)

Design a software architecture for your project and document it following the template given in Software architecture of the Arcade Game Maker (AGM) product line.

Main References

		Len Bass, Paul Clements, and Rick Kazman Software Architecture in Practice, Third Edition Addison-Wesley, 2012
		Mary Shaw and David Garlan Software Architecture: Perspectives on an emerging discipline Prentice Hall, 1996

Other Related Materials

Ian Gorton Essential Software Architecture, Second Edition Springer, 2011

Created on: Feb. 11, 2015