COMP SCI 4100 - Software Architecture - Honours
North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2017
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General Course Information
Course Details
Course Code COMP SCI 4100 Course Software Architecture - Honours Coordinating Unit Computer Science Term Semester 2 Level Undergraduate Location/s North Terrace Campus Units 3 Contact Up to 2 hours per week Available for Study Abroad and Exchange Assessment Exam and/or assignments Course Staff
Course Coordinator: Professor Ali Babar
Course Timetable
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Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
1. Argue the importance and role of software architecture in large-scale software systems.
2. Design and motivate software architecture for large-scale software systems.
3. Recognise major software architectural styles, design patterns, and frameworks.
4. Describe a software architecture using various documentation approaches and architectural description languages.
5. Generate architectural alternatives for a problem and selection among them.
6. Use well-understood paradigms for designing new systems.
7. Identify and assess the quality attributes of a system at the architectural level.
8. Motivate the architectural concerns for designing and evaluating a system's architecture.
9. Discuss and evaluate the current trends and technologies such as model-driven and service-oriented architectures.
10. Evaluate the coming attractions in software architecture research and practice.University Graduate Attributes
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Learning Resources
Required Resources
Books
The students will be expected to work with the course curriculum based on the following book:
Gorton, I., Essential Software Architecture, 2nd edition (2011), Springer.
Research Papers included in the course syllabus (Assessable material) and for Presentations:- L. Chen, M. Ali Babar, B. Nuseibeh, Characterizing Architecturally Significant Requirements, IEEE Software 30(2): 38-45 (2013).
- J. Cleland-Huang, A. Czauderna, E. Keenan: A Persona-Based Approach for Exploring Architecturally Significant Requirements in Agile Projects. REFSQ 2013: 18-33.
- C. Hofmeister, et al., A general model of software architecture design derived from five industrial approaches, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2006.
- M. Singh, and M. Huhns, Service-Oriented Computing: Key Concepts and Principles, IEEE Internet Computing: 9(1): 75-81 (2005).
- M. Stal, Using Architectural Patterns and Blueprints for Service-Oriented Architecture, IEEE Software, March/April 2006.
- E. Curry and P. Grace, Flexible Self-Management Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern, IEEE Software, May/June 2008.
- K. M. Khan and J. Han, Composing Security-Aware Software, IEEE Software, Jan/Feb 2002.
Recommended Resources
Some material for the course will also be drawn from other complementary books such as the followings; if relevant material used from these books, you would be given photocopies of the material. You are NOT required to buy any of these books for this course:
· Bass, L., Clements, P. and Kazman, R., Software Architecture in Practice, 2013, Addison-Wesley.
· Taylor, R., Medvidovic, N., Dashofy, E., Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice, 2010, Wiley.
· Clements, P., Bachmann, F., Bass, L., Garlan, D., Ivers, j., Little, R., Nord, R. and Stafford, J., Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, 2002, Addison-Wesley.
· Clements, P., Kazman, R. and Klein, M., Evaluating Software Architectures: Methods and Case
Studies, 2002, Addison-Wesley.
· Buschmann, F., Meunier, R., Rohnert, H., Sommerlad, P., Stal, M., Pattern-Oriented Software
Architecture: A System of Patterns, 1996, Wiley.Online Learning
This course will use Canvas, which is available from the following link:
https://myuni-canvas.adelaide.edu.au/courses/25364
We may also use GitHub and Slack for discussions, groupwork, collaboration, communication and coordination within each team and across the teams in the class. -
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Assessment
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Course Grading
Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:
M11 (Honours Mark Scheme) Grade Grade reflects following criteria for allocation of grade Reported on Official Transcript Fail A mark between 1-49 F Third Class A mark between 50-59 3 Second Class Div B A mark between 60-69 2B Second Class Div A A mark between 70-79 2A First Class A mark between 80-100 1 Result Pending An interim result RP Continuing Continuing CN Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.
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