Schedule: CS746, Fall 2008 Software Architecture. Prof. Ric Holt, DC 2508, holt@uwaterloo.ca, Comp. Sci.,U. Waterloo

Wk
Thurs
 
1
Sep 11
Organizational meeting
 
 
Website: Course organization, assignments and project
 
 
Website: Overview, software architecture terms
 
 
Volunteer to present Garlan/Shaw paper next wk (Sep 18)
 
 
Example S/W architectures
2
Sep 18
 
 
Davis
Demo of extraction and lsedit
 
Sergey Savinov
Garlan/Shaw: Intro to Software Architecture
3
Sep 25
 
 
Jonathan Rodriguez
Kruchten: The 4+1 Views of Architecture
 
Kah-Kuen Fu
Bowman: Linux as Case Study: Extracted Architecture
4
Oct 02
 
 
Jason Jiang
Perry/Wolf: Foundations for Study of S/W Arch
 
Ahmad Alyoubi
Murphy: Reflexion Model
 
Sarah Nadi
Tran: Forward/Reverse Repair of Software Architecture
5
Oct 09
 
 
Holt
Holt: Grokking SW Arch
 
Leong Fong
Eick: Does Code Decay?
 
Omer Beg
Parnas: Software Aging
6
Oct 16
WCRE
 
Thomas Parry
Example Architecture
7
Oct 23
 
 
Yu-Ling Chang
Garlan: Architectural Mismatch 
 
Hiren Patel
Lindgren: Software Architecture & Release Planning 
 
Kan Yang
Hassan: Reference Architecture for Web Servers 
8
Oct 30
 
 
Amod Gupta
Dagtas: Software Architecture for Mobile Business Applications 
 
Sergey Savinov
Aldrich: ArchJava
 
Muhammad Furkan Khan
Klein: Architecture, Goals, and Technology in Call Center Systems 
9
Nov 06
 
 
Fabien Benureau
Mockus: Two Case Studies of Open Source Development
 
Kush Patel
Bass: Evaluating Software Architecture Competence of Organizations 
 
Denis Yuen
Foote: Ball of Mud 
10
Nov 13
 
 
Fida-E Zaheer
Gorton: MeDICi: Platform for High Performance Data Streaming 
 
Mohammad AlRamahi
Fowler: Who Needs an Architect?
 
Constantine Murenin
Siddha: Getting maximum mileage out of tickless
11
Nov 20
Student Project Presentations
 
 
2. Kush Patel, Hiren Patel
3. Jonathan Rodriguez, Fabien Benureau, Constantine Murenin, Fida-E Zaheer
4. Yu-Ling (Betty) Chang, Denis Yuen, Kah-Kuen Fu
12
Nov 27
Student Project Presentations  Last day of classes
 
 
5. Changzhong Jiang, Amod Gupta, Kan Yang
6. Mirza Beg, Muhammed Khan, Ahmad Alyoubi
1. Leong Fong, Sarah Nadi, Mohammad Alramahi, Sergey Savinov
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
New papers (From WICSA 2008)
 
 
Goossen: Media Player Software in a System of Subsystems 
 
 
 
 
 
Other papers
 
 
Storey: Manipulating And Documenting Software Structures
 
 
Sim: Browsing and Searching Software Architectures 
 
 
Clements: Survey of Architecture Description Languages  
 
 
Askari: Info Theoretic Evaluation of Change Prediction
 
 
Ball: Software Visualization in the Large
 
 
Feijs, Krikhaar: Relational Approach to Arch Analysis 
 
 
Tzerpos: ACDC: Comprehension-Driven Clustering
 
 
Mancoridis: Bunch: A Clustering Tool for Recovery
 
 
Tran: Forward/Reverse Repair of Software Architecture
 
 
Tzerpos: Orphan Adoption 
 
 
Mockus: Two Case Studies of OSS Development
 
 
Pal: Dynamic Interaction
 
 
Torvalds: Comments on Designing Linux 
 
 
Medvidovic: Stemming Architecture Erosion
 
 
Bril: Embedding Architectural Support in Industry
 
 
Rotschke: Arch Analysis Tools to Support Evolution 
 
 
Holt: NBA (Nested Box and Arrow Model), Binary Relational Algebra
 
 
Holt: Introduction to TA
 
 
Wu: LDX Pipeline Tutorial
 
 
Muller: Rev Eng + Subsystem Identification 
 
 
Deremer: Programming in the Large. MILs. Hardcopy only  
 
 
Holt: Software Architecture as a Shared Mental Model
 
 
Stoermer: Practice Patterns for Arch Reconstruction

Last updated 19 Aug 2008 --- RCH