Software Architecture

In the course, the students will learn to define and explain central concepts within software architecture and to use and describe design and architectural patterns, methods to design software architectures, methods to achieve software qualities, methods to document software architectures, and methods to evaluate software architectures. The course gives knowledge about various design and architectural patterns for some domains, and about software architecture and games. The course gives also a practical introduction to use of methods and techniques related to software architecture through a project that goes through the whole development process, as well as implementation of a software architecture.

Knowledge: - Central concepts related to software architecture. - Quality requirements and quality attributes. - Methods for evaluation software architectures (ATAM). - Development processes that includes architectural design. - Various design and architectural patterns. - Methods for designing software architectures. - Methods for specifying quality requirements in a system. - Relationship between requirements, architecture, process and quality. - Methods for generating an architecture from an existing system. - Games and software architectures. Skills: - Usage of design and architectural patterns. - Document quality requirements. - Document software architectures. - Evaluate software architectures. - Design software architectures. - Implement software architectures. General competence: - Improved skills within software engineering in general.

Lectures and exercises. The course will be held in English.