Cs3006N Software Architecture

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Cs3006N Software Architecture

• James King

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Warning

• This course requires you to be able to program in
  Java including using all its object orientated
  features!
• For the first coursework you will need to use
  inheritance, sub classing, polymorphic methods,
  create a set of classes, use packages and
  interfaces.
• If you dont know what any of these are or cant
  use them find out soon!

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What is this course?

• This course exists to help you to create large
  maintainable well structured programs
• Useful for your final year project
• Industry wants these types of skills
• Improve you programming skills
• Help you to think and plan before you program
• Help you to understand and read others programs

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Aims of the Course

• Measurable Achievements
• describe the characteristics of major established
  architecture styles
• recognise major architectural styles in existing
  systems
• apply different styles to some representative
  software application
• construct a software system that satisfies a
  formal specification
• use existing development tools to implement a
  software system
• apply techniques of software design
• evaluate the quality of a design 
• discuss their relative advantages and
  disadvantages

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Assessment

• Coursework 1 (20) build the framework of a large
  piece of software
• Coursework 2 (20) implement the IM258 Z
  coursework
• Exam (60)

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Coursework 1

• Individual coursework
• 20 of the assessment
• You will design and build a class hierarchy
• Write the classes, decide which classes extend
  which classes
• Use interfaces
• Decide on the methods and parameters to the
  methods
• No code in the methods.
• Its all about structure

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Coursework 1

• You will need to be able to
• Create a class
• Create an abstract class
• Create an interface
• Implement an interface in a class
• Create stub methods

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Coursework 2

• Part Group part Individual Coursework (same
  groups as for IM256)
• Implement a subset of the IM256 Z Coursework
• Design and implement stub methods
• Implement functionality of the stubs
• Include Javadoc comments in the code and generate
  javadoc documents
• Test implementation
• Demonstrate it to your TA
• Log of activity and indication of who has done
  what
• Provide an individual written report