Software Architecture

Course 15-675 as offerred Spring 1996

           Class Meetings:  Mondays and Wednesdays
                     Time:  10:30 am -11:50 am
                 Location:  Wean Hall 4615A
              Instructors:  David Garlan and Mary Shaw
       Teaching Assistant:  James Ivers
      Executive Assistant:  Margaret Weigand

Objectives

Architectures for Software Systems aims to teach you how to design, understand, and evaluate systems at an architectural level of abstraction. By the end of the course you should be able to:

Recognize major architectural styles in existing software systems.
Describe an architecture accurately.
Generate architectural alternatives for a problem and choose among them.
Construct a medium-sized software system that satisfies an architectural specification.
Use existing definitions and development tools to expedite such tasks.
Understand the formal definition of a number of architectures and be able to reason precisely about the properties of those architectures.
Use domain knowledge to specialize an architecture for a particular family of applications.