Software Architecture | Makerere University Courses

Course Venue:

Lecture Theatre LLT 4B

CIT Block B

LLT 4B

College of Computing and Information Sciences

Course Code:

MCS 7108

Course Credit Units:

Semester:

Semester 1

Year of Study:

Year 1

Undergraduate or Graduate Level:

Graduate Level

College:

College of Computing and Information Sciences

School:

School of Computing and Informatics Technology (CIT)

Department:

Networks

Course Description & Objectives:

Very little software is actually written from scratch. Instead, software projects usually rely on existing libraries, frameworks, and components. Such building blocks must be carefully integrated to ensure that the resulting applications are robust and maintainable. The necessity to integrate, reuse, and maintain large collections of software components has led to important challenges for computer scientists and engineers which, in turn, resulted in the elaboration of various component models and integration mechanisms..Aims:To equip students with issues of large-scale software development usually referred to as ”software architecture”, including architectural design and documentation, component models and technolo- gies, software product lines, frameworks, and aspect-oriented programming

Learning Outcomes:

To understand the factors and issues that come into play in the development of large-scale software systems.
To understand the concepts, terminology, and notation of various component models.
To understand a variety of integration mechanisms used to build large scale systems, and to apply the mechanisms in a concrete situation.
To be able to clearly document non-trivial software architectures.
To evaluate and discuss the properties of different software architectures.
To know about a number of innovative approaches to software architecture as proposed by the research community.

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