By the end of the course participants should:         

• Understand what is a software architecture
• Explain why a software architecture is important
• Describe the architecture influence cycle
• Describe the relationships between system qualities and software architectures
• Describe software architectural patterns and tactics, and their relationship to system qualities
• Able to apply the QAW for eliciting critical quality attributes
• Understand the essential considerations in any architectural design process
• Be able to apply attribute-driven design
• Be able to document a software architecture documentation
• Be able to evaluating software architecture effectively using ATAM, CBAM
• Be able to Apply architectural reuse via software product lines
• Understand Difference Perspectives of Software Architecture

Module 1: Introduction to Software Architecture

• What is software architecture?
• Who is software architect?
• What’s the difference Between Architecture and Design?
• Why is software architect important?
• Architecture in Technical, Business, Professional Context
• Architecture in a Project Life-Cycle Context
• The architecture influence cycle
• Underlying Competencies of Software Architecture

Module 2: Architecture and Requirements

• Gathering Architecturally Significant Requirement (ASR)
• The Quality Attribute Workshop (QAW)
• Capturing Architecturally Significant Requirement

Module 3: Designing an Architecture

• Design Strategy and The Attribute-Drive Design Method
• Understanding Quality Attributes
• Architectural Tactics
• Architecture Patterns
• Quality Attribute Modeling and Analysis

Module 4: Documenting Software Architectures

Overview of Architecture Documentation

• Uses and Audiences for Architecture Documentation
• Architecture Documentation and Quality Attributes
• Architecture View and Architecture Styles
• Seven rules for sound Documentation
• Notations for Architecture Documentation
• Documenting Software Interfaces
• Documenting Behavior

Building the Architecture Documentation

• Choosing the Views
• Documenting a View, Beyond Views, a Mapping to Requirements
• Packaging the Architecture Documentation
• Reviewing an Architecture Document

Module 5: Architecture Evaluation

• Evaluation Factors
• The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method
• Lightweight Architecture Evaluation
• Decision-Making Context
• The Basis for the Economic Analyses
• Putting Theory into Practice: The CBAM

Module 6: Architecture Reconstruction and Conformance

• Architecture Reconstruction Process
• Raw View Extraction
• Database Construction
• View Fusion
• Architecture Analysis: Finding Violations

Module 7: Architecture, Implementation, and Testing

• Embedding the Design in the Code
• Using Frameworks and Code Templates
• Keeping Code and Architecture Consistent
• Levels of Testing and How Architecture Plays a Role in Each

Module 8: Management and Governance

• The top-down and bottom-up budget and schedule
• Developing architecture design and the release plans
• Responsibilities of Project Manager and Software Architect
• Global Development
• Tradeoffs, incremental development, and managing risk.
• Global Metrics, Phase Metrics and Costs to Complete
• Controls, Compliance, Processes and Practices

Module 9: Architecture in Agile Projects

• Agility and Architecture Methods
• Examples of Agile Architecting
• Guidelines for the Agile Architect

Module 10: Architecture Reuse via Software Product Lines

• Product Line Variability and Quality Attribute of Variability
• What Makes a Software Product Line Work?
• Product Line Scope and Variation Mechanisms
• The Role of a Product Line Architecture
• Evaluating a Product Line Architecture
• Key Software Product Line Issues

Module 11: Architecture in the Cloud

• Basic Cloud Definitions
• Service Models and Deployment Options
• Base Mechanisms: Hypervisor, Page Mapper, Storage, Network
• Sample Technologies: virtual resource managers, HBase, MongoDB
• Architecting in a Cloud Environment

This course is intended for those as below:

• Software Engineer
• Designer
• Developer
• Software Architect
• Technical Lead
• Project Manager
• Product Line Manager
• Software Engineering Manager

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• PROCESS-ORIENTED: Our training programs are process focused, not process bound. We apply standard tools for process streamlining
• IMPROVEMENT FOCUSED: Our techniques involve robust evaluation, open and honest communication and on-going process upgrading for continuous improvement.
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