Software Architecture

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg University

DAT135, DIT540: Software architecture, 7.5 credits, Lp4, 2009

Homepage: http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Grundutb/Kurser/softarch/

News

• (August 19) There are no course page for the autumn course yet, but for your information there will be a course book now: Len Bass, Paul Clements and Rick Kazman, "Software Architecture in Practice", Addison Wesley ISBN 0-321-15495-9 (alternate, search), Second Edition
• (July 1) There will be a second possibility to discuss the exam marking at 14.00 on August 19 in room EDIT6128 (6th floor D&IT department). The next exam will be on August 27 at 14-18 in V-house.
• (July 1) The bonus points will be found in LADOK this week.
• (June 24) The bonus groups will be Fire groups 0, 5 and 10. The bonuses will result in four VG instead of G and one 5 instead of 4. Is seams that most students in the bonus groups come from the IT-university! It may take some days until the changed grade will appear in Ladok.
• (June 22) The exam marking is ready! The results will be sent to Ladok. If you want to check your markings you can come to room EDIT6128 (6th floor D&IT department) at 17.00 on Wednesday June 24th.
• (June 17) The exam result will be even more delayed. Many of you have written very long answers (10 or more pages!) for easy questions that makes it very cumbersome to find the answers hidden within the text! Since it is holiday on Friday it will probably not be ready until Monday.
• (June 14) The exam result will be delayed until Wednesday.
• (May 22) Since it is impossible for IT-University students to register for the exam, you can just show up on exam day at the exam location.
• (May 21) N.B. There will be no questions on the seminar articles in the exam.
• (May 18) Tuesday is the day for final project presentation. For the former Tuesday groups the meetings will be at the same times as before but on the floor below, i.e. floor 5. 6205 → 5205, 6207 → 5207, 6209 → 5209. For the former Thursday groups that have agreed with their supervisor to have the final meeting on Tuesday the meetings will be at the same time as the corresponding Thursday times. The rooms will be on floor 3: 6205 → 3209, 6207 → 3211, 6209 → 3213.
• (May 13) Group 4 will have the Thursday seminar in room EC.
• (May 11) I have just given up my tries to get the ping-pong system working. Please, submit your essayes in the Fire system instead where there is a new entry. You have to register a new group together with your co-author and then submit. Don't use the project group!
• (May 1) The seminar schedules have once more been modified. please take a look.
• (May 1) I have now put the two last exams here: Exam 1 and Exam 2.
• (April 27) Since the ping-pong account is not yet ready you must wait to submit the essay. Hopefully it can be done a week from now.
• (April 19) At last on Friday you should send your essay synopsis to andreass (at) chalmers .se. Note that this is different from what was said in the original information. The synopsis will be essential for creating the schedule for the seminars. This schedule will be published here on the next weekend.
• (March 30) There is again trouble with the Tuesday room 6205 project groups since your supervisor will have to travel again. Since it is important to have a meeting before the holydays we try to meet later the same day. At 16.15 for the 13.15 group and at 16.45 for the 13.45 group. At both times in the same room. N.B., these are the groups that were together with other groups last Tuesday, not the groups that were moved to Thursday!
• (March 18) By mistake the 'Course Information' and 'Introduction' lecture notes were linked to last years notes. It is now corrected.
• (March 17) N.B. There was an error in the course schedule handed out at the Lecture. All lectures will be in HC4! The course schedule is corrected.
• (March 10) The course will start March 17, 2009.

General

The course will consist of::

• Lectures
• Projects with compulsory meeting each week
• Seminars with compulsory attendence (3 times)
• A written essay
• Essay presentation
• Written exam.

Information

• Course Schedule
• Lecture Notes
• Project
• Seminars and essay

Staff

Responsible for the course is

• Sven-Arne Andreasson, andreass (at) chalmers.se, 772 1043.

The assistants are:

• Ali Shahrokni, nimli (at) dtek.chalmers.se
• Phu H. Phung, phu.phung (at) chalmers.se
• Joachim von Hacht, hajo (at) chl.chalmers.se

Course Representatives

• Rafia Inam, rafia.inaam (at) gmail.com
• Xu Yi, yixu (at) student.chalmers.se

Course Book

Unfortunately there is no course book.

The following papers are part of the course material:

• An Introduction to Software Architecture by David Garlan and Mary Shaw.
• ATAM: Method for Architecture Evaluation by Rick Kazman Mark Klein Paul Clements. Technical Report CMU/SEI-2000-TR-004.

Written examination

Written examination will take place 26/05-2008 at 14 - 18 in the V house

The next exam will be August 27: 14 - 18 in the V-house.

The examination will based on

• the course material and lecture notes.
• There might also be questions in connection with the project.
• As well as very general questions from the seminars (no details).

Here follows the two last exams:

• Exam 1
• Exam 2