CSS/422 - Software Architecture
Course Description
This undergraduate course is 5 weeks.
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Course Objectives
Week 1
- Discuss the relation between software, applications, technology, and solution architectures.
- Explain the role of IT in shaping and delivering business goals.
- Assess requirements for making design decisions.
- Examine the inherent difficulties in software intensive systems.
- Construct Use Case diagrams to illustrate system context and architecturally significant functions of the system.
Week 2
- Analyze the role and impact of architects and architecture in the development process.
- Explore architectural viewpoints through the use of diagramming tools.
- Contrast component-based, distributed, and SOA-based architecture.
- Compare and contrast the role of architecture in Agile and waterfall development methodologies to determine which is appropriate to modernize a CRM system.
Week 3
- Contrast architectural frameworks.
- Discuss architectural design based on architectural decisions.
- Build architectural diagrams using architectural patterns to satisfy functional requirements using UML.
Week 4
- Model design decisions for quality attributes through UML.
- Analyze design patterns to satisfy quality attributes.
- Construct data models.
- Apply design patterns for architectural integration.
Week 5
- Assess the role of enterprise architecture and the path to building enterprise-level architectural models.
- Survey newer technology domains.
- Analyze the role of architecture in creating and releasing software.
- Create an Architecture Design Document to modernize a CRM system.
Prerequisites
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