Advanced Software Engineering, FS 12

This course covers the following specific topics in software engineering:

• software architecture and design
• architectural patterns and styles
• model-driven software development
• aspect-oriented programming
• problem frames
• software processes including agile methods
• software reuse
• further selected topics

Students shall be able to understand and apply advanced methods, techniques and processes in software engineering.

The listed topics are not exclusive and can change during the semester. The slides will be updated on a week by week basis.

This course offers a mixture of lectures, discussions, and case studies. This allows the students to actively learn during the lecture and in preparation before and after the lecture based on concrete examples.

Topics will be introduced by presentations triggering the essence of the area. The deepening then is done by reading scientific papers and book chapters. A discussion based on examples or case studies completes specific topics.

• It was decided to have oral exams on May 30, May 31, and June 20, 2012.
• Please sign up for the oral exams via Doodle!

1. Parnas, D. L. 1972. On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules. Commun. ACM 15(12):1053-1058, Dec. 1972.
2. Kruchten, P.B., The 4+1 View Model of architecture, IEEE Software, 12(6):42-50, Nov 1995.
3. F. Buschmann, R. Meunier, H. Rohnert, P.Sommerlad, M. Stal, Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: A System of Patterns, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, 1996
4. Douglas C. Schmidt, Michael Stal, Hans Rohnert and Frank Buschmann, Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects, John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
5. Frank Buschmann, Kevlin Henney, Douglas C. Schmidt, Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing, John Wiley & Sons, 2007
6. Frank Buschmann, Kevlin Henney, Douglas C. Schmidt, Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: On Patterns and Pattern Languages, John Wiley & Sons, 2007
7. Markus Schumacher, Eduardo Fernandez-Buglioni, Duane Hybertson, Frank Buschmann, Peter Sommerlad, Security Patterns: Integrating Security and Systems Engineering, Wiley & Sons, 2005
8. L. Williams, R.R. Kessler, W. Cunningham, R. Jeffries (2000). Strengthening the Case for Pair Programming. IEEE Software 17(4):19-25.
9. L. Rising, N. S. Janoff (2000). The Scrum Software Development Process for Small Teams. IEEE Software 17(4):26-32.
10. H. Wolf, S. Rook, M. Lippert (2005). Extreme Programming: Eine Einführung mit Empfehlungen und Erfahrungen aus der Praxis. 2. Auflage, Heidelberg: dpunkt Verlag.
11. David Garlan, Robert T. Monroe and David Wile. Acme: Architectural Description of Component-Based Systems. In Gary T. Leavens and Murali Sitaraman editors, Foundations of Component-Based Systems, Pages 47-68, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
12. Marwan Abi-Antoun, Jonathan Aldrich, David Garlan, Bradley Schmerl, Nagi Nahas and Tony Tseng. Software Architecture with Acme and ArchJava (Research Demonstration). In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering, St. Louis, MS, May 2005.
13. Nenad Medvidovic, Richard N. Taylor, A classification and comparison framework for software architecture description languages, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page(s):70 - 93, Jan. 2000
14. Matthew R. McBride. The software architect. Communications of the ACM, Volume 50 Issue 5, ACM, May 2007
15. Arthur J. Riel, Object-Oriented Design Heuristics, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., 1996
16. Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software, ISBN: 0-321-12521-5, Addison-Wesley, 2004
17. France, R. and Rumpe, B. 2007. Model-driven Development of Complex Software: A Research Roadmap. In 2007 Future of Software Engineering (May 23 - 25, 2007). International Conference on Software Engineering. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 37-54. DOI= dx.doi.org/10.1109/FOSE.2007.14
18. Lim, W.C., Effects of reuse on quality, productivity, and economics, IEEE Software , Volume 11, Issue 5, pp. 23-30, Sept. 1994
19. Barnes, B.H., Bollinger, T.B., Making Reuse Cost-effective, IEEE Software, Volume 8 Issue 1, pp. 13-24, Jan. 1991
20. Joos, R., Software Reuse at Motorola, IEEE Software, Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages:42-47, Sep 1994.
21. Nam-Yong Lee; Litecky, C.R.; An empirical study of software reuse with special attention to Ada, , IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Volume 23, Issue 9, Page(s):537 - 549, Sept. 1997.
22. Rothenberger, M.A.; Dooley, K.J.; Kulkarni, U.R.; Nada, N.; Strategies for software reuse: a principal component analysis of reuse practices, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Volume 29, Issue 9, Page(s):825 - 837, Sept. 2003.
23. R. N. Taylor, N. Medvidovic, E. M. Dashofy. Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice. Wiley, 2009.
24. M. Barnett and M. Fähndrich and K. R. M. Leino and P. Müller and W. Schulte and H. Venter: Specification and Verification: The Spec# Experience, Communications of the ACM, 2010.
25. Michael Jackson, Problem Frames and Software Engineering, Information and Software Technology, Vol. 47(14):903-912, Nov 2005.
26. Michael Jackson, A Tutorial on Software Development Problem Frames Part 1, Open University, 2006
    Tutorial Slides (PDF, 131 KB)
27. David L. Parnas, Paul C. Clements, A Rational Design Process: How and Why to Fake it, Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. SE-12, No. 2, Feb 1986.
    (PDF) (PDF, 654 KB)