CS446/646/E&CE452 - Fall 2007

Software Design and Architecture

Lectures

Lectures will take place from 8:30am to 9:20am on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in MC4042.

Instructor

Grant Weddell

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Office: DC3346
Email: gweddell@uwaterloo.ca
Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext 34463
Office hours: Wednesdays at 11am
Fax: (519) 885-1208

Teaching Assistance

Xin Zhan

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo

Office: DC3304
Email: xzhan@uwaterloo.ca
Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext 33414
Office hours: Thursdays at 11:30am

Required Textbooks

There are two required textbooks for the course:

Software Architecture -- Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline by Mary Shaw and David Garlan, and
Software Design by David Budgen.

Reading Assignments

Chapters 1 and 2 of Shaw and Garlan; Chapters 1 through 4 (Part 1) of Budgen by September 30th.
Chapter 3 of Shaw and Garlan; Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 of Budgen by start of lectures by October 17th.
Chapters 5, 6, 11 and 12 of Budgen by October 31st.
Chapters 10, 14, 15 and 16 of Budgen by November 14th.

Assignments

There are three marked assignments in the course.

Assignment one can be downloaded here.
Assignment two can be downloaded here.
Assignment three can be downloaded here.
Assignment three presentation schedule can be downloaded here.

Sample Final Exam

A sample of a final exam for this course can be downloaded here .

Course Slides

Introduction ( in pdf here )( in ps here )
Basic concepts ( in pdf here )( in ps here )
Architectural styles ( in pdf here )( in ps here )
Architectural case study ( in pdf here )( in ps here )
Other design notations ( in pdf here)( in ps here)
Design processes (NOTE: slides 16 through 21 present a case study that might be of help for the first assignment): part one on SSA/SD ( in pdf here)( in ps here)
Integration testing and project control ( in pdf here )( in ps here )
Design processes: part two on JSP/JSD ( in pdf here )( in ps here )
Design processes: part three on OOD ( in pdf here )( in ps here )
Design patterns ( in pdf here )( in ps here )
ER notation ( in pdf here )( in ps here )

Maintained by: G. Weddell
Last modified: November 2nd, 2007