CISC 322: Software Architecture [Fall 2009]

Instructor: Ahmed E. Hassan, ahmed at cs.dot.queensu.dot.ca.
Office Hours: Weds 11:30-12:30pm or by appts.
Teaching Assistant: Thanh Nguyen Huynh, thanhnguyen cs dot queensu .dot. ca, by appts.
Lectures: Wednesday 10:00 to 11:30 STI-414,
Thursday 12:30 to 2:30 JEF-102,
Friday 8:30 to 10:00 STI-412B
Text: No text, see assigned readings on course page

Class Schedule

Week	Topic (Slides)	Readings
1	Introduction, admin	What is a software Architecture?, Peter Eeles Characteristics of a software architect, Peter Eeles
	Non Functional Requirements (NFR) and Quality Attributes	Introducing the Case Study, Ian Gorton Software Quality Attributes, Ian Gorton
2	Software Architecture: Intro and Styles	An Introduction to Software Architecture, David Garlan and Mary Shaw
3	Linux Architecture	Linux as a Case Study: Its Extracted Software Architecture, Ivan T. Bowman, Richard C. Holt and Neil V. Brewster.
	Reference Architecture	A Reference Architecture for Web Servers, Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt. A Case Study in Architectural Analysis: The Evolution of the Modern Web Browser, Alan Grosskurth and Michael W. Godfrey
5	4+1 Views	The 4+1 Views Model of Architecture, Philippe Kruchten.
	Build Time View	The Build-Time Software Architecture View, Qiang Tu and Michael W. Godfrey.
6	Reflexion Models	Using Development History Sticky Notes to Understand Software Architecture, Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt.
7	Design Patterns	Design patterns : elements of reusable object-oriented software, Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John M. Vlissides.
8	Project Scheduling
	Google Chrome Book
9	Software Estimation Cocomo Example
10	Death March by Ed Yourdon	Death March, Edward Yourdon Estimating Games

Project

This year's project is: Google Chrome(version 2.0.3) Source Code Download. -- Concrete Architecture Analysis Tool and Extracted Data
Project Details (PDF)
Documenting a Software Architecture by Ian Gorton
UML tutorial slides (PDF)

Assignments Presentation Marking Schemes Presentation Marking Schemes

A1 A1 Presentation A1 Report

A2 A2 Presentation A2 Report

A3 A3 Presentation A3 Report

Group Project Updates

Groups	Members
arCHROMEtects	Jesse Burstyn, Katricia Barleta, Lukas Berk, P Bennett Cole, Tom Franzon
Group #2	Allan Read, Andrew Hoyt, Corey Sacrey, Tom Hauser
Group #3	Zach Clark, Matthew Ma, Myles Nicholson, Mark Syer

Assignments	Presentation Marking Schemes	Presentation Marking Schemes
A1	A1 Presentation	A1 Report
A2	A2 Presentation	A2 Report
A3	A3 Presentation	A3 Report