NDAK11001U Software Design and Software Architecture

Volume 2013/2014
Education
Kandidatuddannelsen i datalogi (Computer Science)
Content
Software design is concerned with structuring software systems in such a way that functional and quality requirements can be fulfilled by an implementation.

For large systems, the software architecture design of systems, i.e., "the structure or structures of the system, which comprise software components, the externally visible properties of those components, and the relationships among them", becomes critical.

The course will enable students to design and evaluate the software architecture of sizeable systems.
Learning Outcome
After completion of this course the student should have:

Knowledge of:
  • Quality attributes, including definitions, characterization, and tactics
  • Patterns for software design
  • Software architecture design techniques, e.g., Attribute-Driven Design
  • (Architectural) design description, e.g., using Architecture Description Languages and the Unified Modeling Language
  • Design and architecture evaluation, e.g., using the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method
  • Describe fundamental concepts of and techniques in software design
  • Characterize functional and quality requirements of software systems
Skills to:
  • Elicit functional and quality requirements of software systems
  • Design systems and software architectures so that they satisfy relevant quality constraints
  • Describe existing systems and software architectures with relevant software description techniques
  • Evaluate existing systems and software architectures with respect to relevant qualities
Competences to:
  • Communicate a complex technical design in writing and orally
  • Iterative and incrementally design a complex software system
  • Analyze complex software systems with respect to their software architecture
Literature
See Absalon when the course is set up.
Programming skills at the level of a CS bachelor
Lectures, workshops, and projects
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Exam
  • 14
  • Lectures
  • 24
  • Preparation
  • 56
  • Project work
  • 80
  • Theory exercises
  • 32
  • Total
  • 206
Credit
7,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Oral examination, 50 minutes
25 minutes of oral exam including grading with 25 minutes for preparation, internal grading according to the danish 7-point scale.
Exam registration requirements
A number of written projects must be handed in and passed in order to be eligible for oral examination.
Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
No external censorship
Re-exam
Same as ordinary exam.
Criteria for exam assesment
See learning outcome.