Software Architecture

Bertrand Meyer, summer semester 2006

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Course description

Software Architecture, 252-0050-00

Description at the computer science department: see here

Course book

• Bertrand Meyer: Object-Oriented Software Construction, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 1997 ISBN 0-13-629155-4

Other (recommended) books:

• Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides: Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN 0201634988
• Karine Arnout: From Patterns to Components, Ph.D. thesis, 2004. (See publications)

Testat and Exam

• Requirements document or user manual
• Design document

TEETH

Readings

Reading assignment of week 4

• Chapter 3: "Modularity" and Chapter 6: "Abstract Data Types" of Object-Oriented Software Construction, Second Edition.
• Niklaus Wirth, “Program Construction by Stepwise Refinement”, Communications of the ACM, 14, 4, (April 1971), p 221-227

Reading assignment of week 5

• Bertrand Meyer, Karine Arnout: Componentization: the Visitor Example, to appear in Computer (IEEE), 2006.
• Chapter 20 and 21 of Object-Oriented Software Construction, Second Edition.

Reading assignment of week 7

• Karine Arnout & Bertrand Meyer: Componentization, the Factory Pattern (Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, 2006)
• Chapter 28: "The software construction process" of Object-Oriented Software Construction, Second Edition.

Forum

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Downloads

• EiffelStudio Open Sourcing.
• 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

Further reading

• Pete Thomas, Ray Weedon: Object-Oriented Programming in Eiffel, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley Eiffel in Practice Series, ISBN 0-201-33131-4
• Frieder Monninger: Eiffel. Objektorientiertes Programmieren in der Praxis, H. Heise Verlag, Hannover, ISBN 3-882-29028-5
• Bertrand Meyer: La produzione del software object oriented. Prentice Hall International, Hemel Hempstead, ISBN 88-256-0205-7
• Giuseppe Callegarin: Nuovo corso di informatica. Basi di dati e sistemi informativi. Per le Scuole superiori. CEDAM, ISBN 8-813-19565-6
• Version Control with Subversion

Lectures

Schedule

  Slides

Week	Datum	Thema	Slides (EN)			Movies			Further material
			1up	3up	6up
Week 1	Wed, 05.04.2006	Introduction
Week 2	Wed, 12.04.2006	Guest lecture by Emmanuel Stapf
Week 3	Wed, 19.04.2006	Modularity and Reusability							OOSC2 Chapter 3 and 6
Week 4	Wed, 26.04.2006	Abstract Data Types							Niklaus Wirth, “Program Construction by Stepwise Refinement
Week 5	Wed, 03.05.2006	Design Patterns							OOSC2 Chapter 20 and 21
Week 6	Wed, 10.05.2006	Design Patterns II and Software Lifecycle Model							Bertrand Meyer, Karine Arnout: Componentization: the Visitor Example Karine Arnout & Bertrand Meyer: Componentization, the Factory Pattern
Week 7	Wed, 17.05.2006	Software Lifecycle Model II							IEEE recommended practice for software requirements specifications OOSC2 Chapter 28: The software construction process
Week 8	Wed, 24.05.2006	Configuration Management
Week 9	Wed, 31.05.2006	Agents							slides 70-93
Week 10	Wed, 07.06.2006	Software Testing and Quality Assurance
Week 11	Wed, 14.06.2006	Design by Contract
Week 12	Wed, 21.06.2006	Design by Contract 2
Week 13	Wed, 28.06.2006	Project presentations
Week 14	Wed, 05.07.2006	Final Exam

Exercises

Exercises

Assistants

Exercise Sheets

Exercise	Topics	Links	Solution	Further links
Exercise 1	Abstract Data Types
Exercise 2	Implementing Patterns			Blackboard pattern
Exercise 3	Testing

Last modified: Friday, 23-Jun-2006 15:43:50 CEST