Lecture "Introduction to software engineering - Week 6: Architectural design" has contents: Architectural design decisions, architectural views, architectural patterns, application architectures. | Lecture Introduction to software engineering: Week 6 - Nguyễn Thị Minh Tuyền Week 6: Architectural Design Nguyễn Thị Minh Tuyền Adapted from slides of Ian Sommerville Architectural Design 1. What is it? 2. Who does it? 3. Why is it important? 4. What are the steps? 5. What is the work product? 6. How do I ensure that I’ve done it right? Topics covered 1. Architectural design decisions 2. Architectural views 3. Architectural patterns 4. Application architectures 3 Software architecture £ The design process for identifying the sub-systems making up a system and the framework for sub- system control and communication is architectural design. £ The output of this design process is a description of the software architecture. 4 Architectural design £ Is an early stage of the system design process. £ Represents the critical link between specification and design processes. £ Often carried out in parallel with some specification activities. £ Involves identifying major system components and their communications. 5 Architecture of a packing robot control system Vision system Object Arm Gripper identification controller controller system Packaging selection system Packing Conveyor system controller 6 Architectural abstraction £ Architecture in the small is concerned with the architecture of individual programs. p At this level, we are concerned with the way that an individual program is decomposed into components. £ Architecture in the large is concerned with the architecture of complex enterprise systems that include other systems, programs,