SE 3810 - Software Architecture

3 lecture hours 2 lab hours 4 credits

• Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of software architecture and the discipline of designing system structures to satisfy quality requirements.
• Understand how to document software architectures
• Understand and apply quality attribute driven design
• Understand design tactics for satisfying quality attribute responses
• Understand and apply architectural styles and patterns to satisfy design tactics
• Understand basic architecture tradeoff and cost-benefit analysis
• Understand skeletal system design to facilitate architecture evaluation and analysis; and coverage of contemporary topics in distributed, highly saleable software architectures.
• Work collaboratively as a member of a small design team

• Software requirements, including non-functional (quality) requirements
• Software development process tools and methods

• Introduction to course and software architecture
• Quality attributes, architectural styles, and architectural design patterns
• The role of architecture in software development
• Designing the architecture
• Architectural design patterns and styles
• Architecture analysis and reviews
• Team project work
• Software architecture case studies

• Functional and non-functional requirements, business drivers, mapping requirements to architecture
• Architecture design, prototyping, analysis, and review
• Project presentations