CS 4352.501

Instructor: Lawrence Chung

Office: EC 3.204, ECSS, UTD

Office Hours: TR 2:00pm--3:00pm, or by appointment

Lectures: Time: TR 11:00am--12:15pm, Room: ECSS2.312

Phone: 972-883-2178 (emergency)

Web page: http://www.utdallas.edu/~chung/SA/syllabus.htm (NOT webCT!)

TA: TBA; Office Hours: TBA; Office: TBA

Primary Reading: Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline, Mary Shaw and David Garlan, Prentice hall

References:

Software Architecture in Practice, L. Bass, P. Clements & R. Kazman, Addison Wesley

Component-Based Software Engineering, Edited by A. W. Brown, IEEE Computer Society

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software,

Eric Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides, Addison-Wesley

Design Patterns for Object-Oriented Software Development, Wolfgang Pree, Addison-Wesley Longman

Seamless Object-Oriented Software Architecture: Analysis and Design of Reliable Systems,

Kim Walden & Jean-Marc Nerson, Prentice Hall

Designing Enterprise Applications with the J2EE Platform, 2/E,

Inderjeet Singh, Beth Stearns, Mark Johnson, The Enterprise Team, Addison Wesley & Benjamin Cummings

Understanding CORBA: The Common Object Request Broker Architecture,

Randy Otte, Paul Patrick and Mark Roy, Prentice Hall

The Essential Client/Server Architecture: Survivor's Guide,

Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey and Jeri Edwards, John Wiley & Sons

Network Application Support for Building Open Systems, James Martin and Joe Leben, Digital Press

Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering,

Lawrence Chung, Brian Nixon, Eric Yu and John Mylopoulos, Kluwer Academic Publishing

The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, Booch, Rumbaugh, Jacobson, Addison Wesley, 1999

Prerequisites: CS/SE 3354 Software Engineering or Equivalent

Objectives: Concepts and methodologies for the systematic analysis, development, evolution, and reuse of software architectural design. Common software architectural styles, elements and connectors. Decomposition and composition of software functionality. Non-functional requirements as criteria for analyzing trade-offs and selecting among architectural design alternatives. State of the practice and art.

Computer Usage:

You can obtain a demo version of Rational Rose from the IBM Rational web site to run the program(s) on your home PC. If you wish, you can use the facilities at UTD too (EC4.408 and EC4.406). The labs at UTD have PC’s with Rational Rose installed on them. There are several open access labs. You will need to get a user ID for the lab. The McDermitt PC lab number is 972-883-2641 and the web site is http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/tcs

Course Project: The project will be done by teams of 3 students. (Teams with more or less than 3 members will be allowed only under exceptional circumstances). All students in a team will get the same mark for the work they do unless they unanimously agree (in writing) to an unequal division. You are to choose your own team members. An orphan will be assigned to a team by the instructor.

Exams: There will be two tests, one in the middle (test 1) and the other at the end (test 2) of the course.

Term Paper: Each paper can be a survey paper or a new research paper. A new research paper can be about new ideas, case studies or implementations.

The topic of the paper should be discussed with the course instructor (during the instructor’s office hours).

Each interim progress also needs to be discussed (More details on this later).

Late work: Any assigned work will have 10 points deducted for each week passed.

Grading:

Project (3 * 10%)	30 %
Test 1	25 %
Test 2	45 %

Class attendance and participation will be considered in the final grade assignment.

Important Dates:

1. August 18 (Thursday) - the first day of class for this course

2. September 29 (Thursday) – project I

3. October 6 (Thursday) – test 1

4. October 27 (Thursday) – project II and/or short presentation

5. November 22 (Tuesday) – test 2

6. November 23 (Wednesday) – November 29 (Tuesday) – project III submission and demo (Each team needs to set up a time with the TA to do a demo; A hardcopy should be submitted at the time of the demo.)

Cheating/Dishonesty:

The University of Texas System Policy on Academic Honesty (The Regents and Regulations, Part One, Chapter VI, Section 3, Paragraph 3.22:

Any student who commits an act of scholastic dishonesty is subject to discipline. Scholastic dishonesty includes but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, the submission for credit of any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person, taking an examination for another, any act designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to commit such acts.

The minimum penalty for academic dishonesty is a failing grade (zero)