CP7014 SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES

CP7014    SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES

UNIT I          ARCHITECTURAL DRIVERS

Introduction – Standard Definitions of Software Architecture– Architectural structures – Influence of software architecture on organization – Architecture Business Cycle – Functional requirements – Technical constraints – Quality Attributes – Quality Attribute Workshop (QAW) – Documenting Quality Attributes – Six part scenarios  

UNIT II           ARCHITECTURAL VIEWS AND DOCUMENTATION

Introduction – Standard Definitions for views – Structures and views- Perspectives: Static, dynamic and physical and the accompanying views – Representing views-available notations – Good practices in documentation– Documenting the Views using UML – Merits and Demerits of using visual languages – Need for formal languages -  Architectural Description Languages – ACME  

UNIT III       ARCHITECTURAL STYLES

Introduction – Data flow styles – Call-return styles – Shared Information styles – Event styles – Case studies for each style 

UNIT IV       ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Approaches for architectural design – System decomposition – Attributes driven design – Architecting for specific quality attributes – Performance, Availability – Security – Architectural conformance  

UNIT V      ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION AND SOME SPECIAL TOPICS

Need for evaluation – Scenario based evaluation against the drivers – ATAM and its variations – Case studies in architectural evaluations – SOA and Web services – Cloud Computing – Adaptive structures

REFERENCES: 

1. Len Bass, Paul Clements, and Rick Kazman, “Software Architectures Principles and Practices”, 2n Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2003. 

2. Anthony J Lattanze, “Architecting Software Intensive System. A Practitioner's Guide”, Auerbach Publications, 2010. 

3. Paul Clements, Felix Bachmann, Len Bass, David Garlan, James Ivers, Reed Little, Paulo Merson, Robert Nord, and Judith Stafford, “Documenting Software Architectures. Views and Beyond”, 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2010. 

4. Paul Clements, Rick Kazman, and Mark Klein, “Evaluating software architectures: Methods and case studies.”, Addison-Wesley, 2001. 

5. David Garlan and Mary Shaw, “Software architecture: Perspectives on an emerging discipline”, Prentice Hall, 1996. 

6. Rajkumar Buyya, James Broberg, and Andrzej Goscinski, “Cloud Computing. Principles and Paradigms”, John Wiley & Sons, 2011 

7. Mark Hansen, “SOA Using Java Web Services”, Prentice Hall, 2007 

8. David  Garlan, Bradley  Schmerl, and Shang-Wen Cheng, “Software Architecture-Based SelfAdaptation,” 31-56. Mieso K Denko, Laurence Tianruo Yang, and Yan Zang (eds.), “Autonomic Computing and Networking”. Springer Verlag, 2009.