CS6075 Software Architecture

2012 Intersession Term

Class Time:	MTuTh: 8:00-11:20am, F: 8:00-9:40am, March 5 – 23, 2012
Class Room:	两江院 301
Instructor:	Dr. Weichang Du
Office:	三江院TBA
Office Hours:	by e-mail appointment
Email:	wdu@unb.ca
Web:	http://www.cs.unb.ca/~wdu/cs6075

Text Book:

Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice, by Richard N. Taylor, Nenad Medvidovic, and Eric M. dashofy, Wiley, 2010.

Reference Books:

• Software Architecture in Practice (2^nd Edition), by Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman, Addison-Wesley, 2003.

Course Description:

This course covers the concepts and practices of software architecture. Topics include creation, analysis, and reuse of architectures, architectural styles and tactics, architecture modeling and description languages, architectural frameworks, and architecture-based software development.

Course Work and Marking Scheme

• 35% Assignments
• 15% Lab work
• 20% Report and Presentation
• 30% Take-Home Final Exam: 12:00pm, Mar. 23 – 8:00pm, Mar. 25, 2012
• Questions
• Submission

Course Information

• Assignments:
• Description: 1 2 3 4 5 6 lab ( RobotEye model sample )
• Submission: 1 2 3 4 5 6 lab

• Research Report (due: March 31):
• Phase 1: Read 5-10 abstracts of papers on software architecture which are published within past 5 years in the following publications from IEEE-CS Digital Library and ACM Digital Library:
• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
• IEEE Software
• ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
• ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
• ACM Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)
• IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)

Note that you can also read research papers on software architecture from other publications. Check with the instructor before you do so.

• Phase 2: Select a software architecture related research topic from Phase 1 reading, and study 3 or more research papers on the topic.  Note that if you are not sure if the topic you choose is on software architecture research, please ask the instructor. Also, if you cannot retrieve full papers, please ask the instructor to help.
• Phase 3: Write a 5-8 (single space) page report with the following contents:

1. Introduction to the research topic
2. Description of the research problem(s) that the published papers intended to solve
3. Description of the problem solution(s) that the published papers proposed
4. List of references (the references should be cited in the report.)

o Presentation: 5-8 slides to summarize contents of the report. 5-10 minutes presentation.

o Report Submission

Reference Information

Lecture Notes and Schedule (subject to change)

Date	Topics (contents)
3.5/Mon	Introduction Architecture in context
3.6/Tue	Basic concepts Designing architectures with architectural styles and patterns: 1
3.8/Thu	Designing architectures with architectural styles and patterns: 2 3
3.12/Mon	Designing architectures with architectural styles and patterns: 2 3 Architectural Tactics: 1a 1b
3.13/Tue	Architectural Tactics: 1a 1b 2a 2b Connectors: 1 2
3.15/Thu	Connectors: 1 2 Modeling: 1 2
3.19/Mon	Modeling: 1 2 Visualization: 1 2 Lab: Architecture modeling and description using UML 2.0 and Rational Software Architect: 1 2
3.20/Tue	Lab: Architecture modeling and description using UML 2.0 and Rational Software Architect: 1 2 Analysis: 1 2 Implementation: 1 2 Deployment and Mobility
3.22/Thu	Research Presentations