Software Architecture
Bertrand Meyer and Michela Pedroni, spring semester 2010
| General info: | News | Course description | Course project | Literature | Testat and exam | Forum | Downloads |
| Lecture: | Hours | Schedule and slides |
| Exercises: | Hours | Exercise slides | Assignments | Assistants |
General info
News
| 10.5.2010 | Self-study material on concurrency is online: study material, quiz for SCOOP; study material, quiz for Java threads. |
| 30.3.2010 | Updated slides of design patterns. |
| 15.3.2010 | Today's exercise session of Jason's group will be in IFW A32.1 (together with Martin's group). |
| 12.3.2010 | Added link to an additional SRS template which has a description of each section to the download section. If you need more information on what each section should contain, take a look at that document. |
| 8.3.2010 | PDF, DOC and RTF SRS templates available from the download section. |
| 7.3.2010 | Added slides for lecture 4. |
| 5.3.2010 | Added example requirements documents to downloads section. Updated list of project groups. |
| 4.3.2010 | Updated list of project groups. |
| 29.2.2010 | Updated list of project groups. |
| 29.2.2010 | Today's exercise session of Martin and Julian will both be in IFW A32.1. |
| 28.2.2010 | See the list of project groups to see in which exercise session you are. If you are not yet in a project group, send an email to Julian Tschannen. |
| 25.2.2010 | Link to Eiffel Tutorial added. |
| 24.2.2010 | Project description is now online. |
| 21.2.2010 | Updated schedule and literature. |
| 19.2.2010 | The first exercise session will be held in the second week, Monday 29.02.2010. So, there will be no exercise session on Monday, 22.02.2010 15:15-18:00. This does not affect the lectures: they start on Monday, 22.02.2010 8:15-10:00. |
| 18.2.2010 | Published a tentative schedule for the lectures. |
| 21.12.2009 | First preliminary version of web page. The schedule, assistants and exercise session venues are incomplete and tentative. |
Course
description
Software Architecture, 252-0212-00L
Although "Software Architecture" has been offered for several years, the present form of the course is new. The scope covers both software architecture in a strict sense and an introduction to the non-programming aspects of software engineering. For the full course description see the official ETH catalog entry.
Course Project
Project description: here.
Literature
The following are the two recommended textbooks for the course:
- Bertrand Meyer: Object-Oriented Software Construction, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 1997 ISBN 0-13-629155-4
- Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides: Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN 0201634988
It is also recommended that you use a good software engineering textbook, such as:
- Ghezzi, Jazayeri, Mandrioli: Fundamentals of Software Engineering
- Pfleeger and Atlee: Software Engineering: Theory and Practice
- Pressman: Software Engineering: A Practitioner's approach
Additional reference on patterns:
- Karine Arnout: From Patterns to Components, Ph.D. thesis, 2004. (See publications)
References on UML:
- James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch: The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual. Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 978-0321245625
- Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson: The Unified Modeling Language User Guide. Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 978-0201571684
- Martin Fowler: UML Distilled. A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language. Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 978-0321193681
- A web service for generating UML sequence diagrams
Eiffel:
- Eiffel Tutorial from Eiffel Software.
Testat and Exam
The programming aptitude test will take place during one of the exercise sessions on Monday afternoon.
Exam
The exam will be written and will take place during the last lecture of the semester. No supplementary material is allowed except for dictionaries.
Previous Software Architecture exams are available here: Warning: the course in previous years had a narrower scope (software architecture only), with only 2 hours of lecture one 1 exercise hour, against the present 4 + 3 hours. As a consequence, past years' only give a partial view of what will be asked this year. Readings
- None yet.
Forum
You can use the forum to ask course- and exercise-related questions. The assistants will do their best to answer your questions as soon as possible. Click here to access the forum!.
The forum is maintained not by us but by the Informatics Students Association (VIS).
Downloads
- Eiffel syntax description in BNF-E (extract from Eiffel: the language).
- Do it with style by Marcel Kessler (summary of style guidelines for Eiffel).
- Eiffel introduction
- Example SRS documents:
- SRS template [PDF], [DOC], and [RTF]
- SRS template with description per section
Lectures
Lecture hours
Day |
Time |
Room |
|
| Monday | 8:00-10:00 | IFW A36 | |
| Tuesday | 14:00-16:00 | IFW A36 |
Lecture schedule and slides
Exercises
- The exercise sessions will start on 29.02.2010 only. There will be no exercise session on Monday, 22.02.2010.
Exercise hours
Day |
Time |
Room |
| Monday | 15:00-18:00 |
see corresponding assistant
|
Exercise
Sessions
Date |
Task |
Material |
| 01.03.10 | Introduction | SVN FIT |
| 08.03.10 | ADT Introduction | Intro Exercise Solution |
| 15.03.10 | ADT exercises | Tic-Tac-Toe: Exercise Solution Map: Exercise Solution |
| 29.03.10 | Design patterns exercise | Exercise Solution |
| 12.04.10 |
Testing exercise |
Exercise and Solution |
| 03.05.10 | UML diagrams exercise | Exercise Solution |
Assignments
Date issued |
Date due |
Handout |
Solution |
Contacts
Assistant |
Office |
Phone |
Time |
Exercise room |
Language |
| Martin Nordio | RZ J3 | 044 632 02 97 | 15:00 - 18:00 |
IFW A32.1 |
English |
| Stephan van Staden | RZ J5 | 044 632 77 04 | 15:00 - 18:00 |
IFW B42 |
English |
| Yi Wei (Jason) | RZ J5 | 044 632 69 57 | 15:00 - 18:00 |
ML F40 |
English |
| Julian Tschannen | RZ J3 | 044 632 44 49 | 15:00 - 18:00 |
ML H43 |
German / English |