Software Design and Architecture

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will have the ability to:

• design and implement software using several different middleware technologies,
• apply a variety of frameworks, and architectural styles in designing a wide variety of software,
• use sound quality metrics as objectives for designs, and then measure and assess designs to ensure the objectives have been met,
• modify designs using sound change control approaches, and
• use reverse engineering techniques to recapture the design of software.

Course Description

An in-depth look at software design; Continuation of the study of design patterns, frameworks, and architectures; Survey of current middleware architectures; Design of distributed systems using middleware; Component based design; Measurement theory and appropriate use of metrics in design; Designing for qualities such as performance, safety, security, reusability, reliability, etc.; Measuring internal qualities and complexity of software; Evaluation and evolution of designs; Basics of software evolution, reengineering, and reverse engineering.

Course Content

1. Introduction
2. Design Process Models
3. Software Architecture
4. Design
5. Special Issues