ECTS - Advanced Software Architecture
Advanced Software Architecture (SE658) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Advanced Software Architecture | SE658 | Area Elective | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| N/A |
| Course Language | English |
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| Course Type | Software Engineering Elective Courses |
| Course Level | Ph.D. |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | Proper software and system architecting is instrumental for ensuring that software-reliant systems achieve their business and mission goals, and satisfy required quality attributes, e.g., performance, security, safety etc. To this end, sound architecture principles and methods support developing, analyzing, and evolving systems. For a certain class of systems, it is of outmost importance that the quality attribute requirements are satisfied as severe, or even catastrophic, consequences would result otherwise, e.g., safety-critical systems. Architectural modeling, verification, validation, and evaluation have shown to be effective means to significantly increase the overall quality of the system, often significantly reducing the number of defects flowing downstream to later development phases (late detection and removal of defects cost orders of magnitude more compared to early detection of defects). Software Architecture is the discipline of designing and specifying software systems. As we move towards larger and larger (or ultra large scale) systems, having well-designed architecture and system models will be an essential element for producing software that is of high quality and feasible to maintain. Several recent trends such as the adoption of software product line engineering (SPLE) by many sectors of industry, and a move towards designing self-adaptive software that can respond to environmental changes, indicate that software architecture is becoming a more and more important part of the software process. In this course, students will study software architecture with a focus on software validation techniques that leverage architectural models. Students will learn an architectural description language, will be exposed to feature modeling for SPLE, and learn about self-adaptive software. The course will consist of some individual homework assignments, paper reviews and presentations and as well as a term project. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | Introduction and overview of software architecture; architectural models; software product lines and configurable software; self-adaptive software; architectural description languages; feature modeling; architecture and model-based testing. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction and Overview of Software Architecture | Ch.2,3 (main text) |
| 2 | Architectural Modellling | Ch.6 |
| 3 | Analysis | Ch.8 |
| 4 | Implementation | Ch.9 |
| 5 | Deployment and Mobility | Ch.10 |
| 6 | Applied Architecture and Styles | Ch.11 |
| 7 | Desiging for Non-Functional Properties | Ch. 12 |
| 8 | Desiging for Non-Functional Properties | Ch. 12 |
| 9 | Security and Trust | Ch13 |
| 10 | Architectural Adaptation | Ch.14 |
| 11 | Domain Specific Software Engineering | Ch.15 |
| 12 | Standards | Ch.16 |
| 13 | People, Roles, and Teams | Ch.17 |
| 14 | Project Presentation |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. R. Taylor, N. Medvidović and E.M. Dashofy, Software Architecture : Foundations, Theory, and Practice, John Wiley, 2010. |
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| Other Sources | 2. P. Clements and L. Northrup, Software Product Lines: Practices and Patterns, Addison-Wesley, 2002. (Reference book) |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | 1 | 5 |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | 2 | 10 |
| Presentation | - | - |
| Project | 1 | 20 |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | 1 | 10 |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | 1 | 20 |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 40 |
| Toplam | 7 | 105 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 100 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | |
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| Major Area Courses | X |
| Supportive Courses | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
| Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
| # | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Comprehends the most advanced technology and literature in the field of software engineering research. | X | ||||
| 2 | Gains the ability to conduct world-class research in software engineering and publish scholarly articles in top conferences and journals in the area. | X | ||||
| 3 | Conducts quantitative and qualitative studies in software engineering. | X | ||||
| 4 | Develops and applies software engineering approaches to acquire the necessary skills to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the field of software engineering and to solve real-world problems. | X | ||||
| 5 | Gains the ability to access the necessary information to follow current developments in science and technology, and to conduct scientific research or develop projects in the field of software engineering. | X | ||||
| 6 | Gains awareness and a sense of responsibility regarding professional, legal, ethical, and social issues in the field of software engineering. | X | ||||
| 7 | Acquires project and risk management skills; gains awareness of the importance of entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainable development; adapts international excellence standards for software engineering practices and methodologies. | X | ||||
| 8 | Gains awareness of the universal, environmental, social, and legal consequences of software engineering practices when making decisions. | X | ||||
| 9 | Develops, adopts, and supports the sustainable use of excellence standards for software engineering practices. | X | ||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | |||
| Laboratory | |||
| Application | |||
| Special Course Internship | |||
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 5 | 80 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | |||
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | 4 | 12 | 48 |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Total Workload | 178 | ||