CS 411:
Software
Architecture
Design

Bilkent University

Description
Study Material
Schedule
Grading
Projects
Related Links
Miscellaneous
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Instructor:
Dr. Bedir Tekinerdoğan
bedir@cs.bilkent.edu.tr

Course Assistants
Bugra M. Yıldız
Elif Demirli

Schedule*

Week
 Mon Tue
(1hr)		 Wed Thu
(2 hr)		 Fri.
Topics Tasks
Week 1
Sept. 2010		    27   29   - Course Organization
 - Motivation for Software Architecture Design		  
Week 2
Oct.		   4   6   Modeling Software Architectures
- Context Diagrams
 - Visual Modeling in UML
 - Architecture Description Languages		 Textbook until page 47
Week 3
 Oct.		   11   13   Architectural Design Methods
 - Classifying architecture design methods

- Architectural Requirements Analysis		 Paper:
- B. Tekinerdogan, Classification and Evaluation of Software Architecture Design Approaches

Quiz
Week 4
Oct.		   18   20   - Domain Analysis

- Synthesis-based architecture design method

- B. Tekinerdogan, Architecture Synthesis Process

 - Mid-term Project Start: Case on Software Architecture Design
Week 5
Oct.		   25   27   - Synthesis-based architecture design method

- Define software architecture teams; select sufficiently complex cases (see mid-term project details).
Week 6
Nov.		   1   3
Architectural Views
- Module Styles		 Textbook (Architectural Views):
- Chapter 2 to 5

Quiz
Week 7
Nov.		   8   10      Kurban Bayramý
Week 8
Nov.		   15   17   Architectural Views
- Component & Connector Styles
Textbook (Architectural Views):
- Chapter 6 to 10
Week 9
Nov.		   22   24   Mid-Term Project End: Student Project Presentations  
Week 10
Nov.  		  29   1   - Final Project Start: Software Architecture Views, Patterns and Evaluation

 Architectural Views
- Component & Connector Styles		 - introduction to final project and continuation of course topics
Week 11
Dec.		   6   8   Architectural Views
- Allocation Styles

- Documenting Architecture using Architecture Views		  
Week 12
Dec.		   13   15   - Architectural Patterns Textbook:
- Chapter 11

Quiz
Week 13
Dec.		   20   22    - Architectural Evaluation
  
Week 14
Dec.
2012		   27   29   Final Project:  
Student Presentations		  
Week 15
Jan.		   3   5   Course Summary  
Week 16             Final Exam
14 January
15:30-18:00 (EB202-EB203)

Q: Quiz
PR: Project Presentations
Final Exam: TBD