About this course: This course will teach you how to design futureproof systems that meet the requirements of IoT systems: systems that are secure, interoperable, modifiable and scalable. Moreover, you'll learn to apply best-in-class software architecture methods to help you design complex IoT and other applications. Lastly, you'll come to understand the business impact of the technical decisions that you make as an IoT system architect. You'll learn all about software architecture in the next 5 weeks! In the first week, you'll discover why having a well-designed architecture is important and which challenges you might come across while developing your architecture. By the end of the second week, you'll already be able to write your own requirements! In the third and fourth week, you will learn how to correctly write quality attributes and quality attribute scenarios for a specific case. In the last week, you'll learn to describe your own patterns and tactics and see how they're used in an Android framework.
Who is this class for: You're at the right address if you're a software engineer, embedded systems engineer or a technical manager who aspires to connect their career to the internet of the future: the Internet of Things. Our blended learning approach offers you the best of both worlds: you can learn online whenever you want to, but can still get hands-on coaching from industry experts. Although useful for professionals, this course is meant for first year Master students in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science. Note that as a consequence, quiz questions are more like exam questions where you have to construct the answer based on the principles that are taught in the web lectures, rather than to recall the literal text of the teacher.
Taught by: Frank Gielen, Professor
UGent/IBCN: Internet Based Communication Networks
| Commitment | 5 weeks of study, 2-3 hours/week |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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- Video: Welcome to Software Architecture for IoT
- Reading: How to navigate through this course
- Reading: Learning objectives per week
- Reading: Want more software architecture?
- Discussion Prompt: IoT and you
- Video: Challenges in Modern Software Engineering
- Video: What is Software Architecture?
- Video: Why is software architecture important? (1)
- Video: Why is software architecture important? (2)
- Reading: How business goals drive architectural design
- Discussion Prompt: Business goals
- Video: The role of the software architect
- Reading: Software Architecture in practice: 1, 2, 3
- Video: The Software Architecture Design Process
- Video: Software requirements
- Video: Documenting Requirements
- Discussion Prompt: IoT project: requirements
- Video: What is the ADD process?
- Reading: ADD paper
- Video: Software Architecture in the Development Process
- Reading: Enabling agility through architecture
- Discussion Prompt: Design process
- Reading: Optional: ADD applied example
- Discussion Prompt: Designing architectures in the real world
- Reading: UberGoogle?
- Reading: Software architecture in practice: 4, 16, 17
- Video: What are quality attributes?
- Video: The nature of quality attributes
- Video: What are QAS?
- Video: QA - Interoperability
- Video: QA - Modifiability
- Discussion Prompt: Quality attributes
- Discussion Prompt: IoT project: quality attributes
- Reading: The missing towels problem
- Reading: Software Architecture in practice: 5, 6, 7
- Video: What are tactics? How do they differ from patterns?
- Video: Different types of tactics
- Video: Tactic - Modifiability
- Reading: Modifiability - tactics and patterns pt. 1
- Video: Introduction to DYAMAND
- Video: Problems and solutions
- Video: Different types of patterns
- Video: Combining Tactics and Patterns
- Reading: Modifiability - tactics and patterns pt. 2
- Discussion Prompt: IoT project: tactics and patterns
- Discussion Prompt: Where to find patterns and tactics
- Video: DYAMAND's requirements
- Video: DYAMAND's architecture (1)
- Video: DYAMAND's architecture (2)
- Reading: Software Architecture in practice: 13
- Discussion Prompt: DYAMAND case study reflection
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Good course
A solid course which brings methods and examples to qualify and quantify requirements and their attributes.
Modifiability and interoperability for instance are applied to IoT.
Tradeoffs and techniques in architecture design and evolution are well explained.
Good background reading material.
Homework is quite difficult to understand and do.
Good Course , however can have more information on architecture
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Good overall course on software architecure with an emphasys on ADD and a little about IoT. Would like to have dug a little deeper and maybe have some more practical exercises.