Architectures for Software Systems 17-655
Architectures for Software Systems is normally offered in the Spring Semester.
Successful design of complex software systems requires the ability to describe, evaluate, and create systems at an architectural level of abstraction. This course introduces architectural design of complex software systems. The course considers commonly-used software system structures, techniques for designing and implementing these structures, models and formal notations for characterizing and reasoning about architectures, tools for generating specific instances of an architecture, and case studies of actual system architectures. It teaches the skills and background students need to evaluate the architectures of existing systems and to design new systems in principled ways using well-founded architectural paradigms.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
describe an architecture accurately
recognize major architectural styles in existing software systems
generate architectural alternatives for a problem and choose among them
construct a medium-sized software system that satisfies an architectural specification
use existing definitions and development tools to expedite such tasks
understand the formal definition of a number of architectures and be able to reason about the properties of those architectures
use domain knowledge to specialize an architecture for a particular family of applications
Prerequisite:
Experience with at least one large software system, either through industrial software development experience or an undergraduate course in software engineering, compilers, operating systems, or the like.
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