Bedir Tekinerdoğan
Assistant Professor,
Bilkent University
Department of Computer Engineering -
Software Engineering
CS411 - Software Architecture Design
This course teaches the basic concepts, methods and techniques for designing software architectures. The topics of the course are summarized in the following:
- Rationale for Software Architecture Design
- Definition of Architecture at various levels of abstraction;
- Modeling Software Architecture Design
- Software Architecture Description Languages
- Architectural Styles/Patterns
- Architectural requirements analysis
- Comparing various methods from architecture-design viewpoint;
- Synthesis-based architecture design;
- Business change scenarios; designing architecture for reuse and change;
- Product Line Architectures
- Introduction to Domain Engineering and Application Engineering;
- Domain modeling techniques, feature modeling;
- Architecture implementation
- Scoping/Selecting Architecture implementation alternatives;
- Evaluating Architecture Designs
Prerequisites
All students should have followed the course 'Object-Oriented Software Engineering'. There should not be any conflict with other courses.