On a new cycle of lectures/assignments on

'Architecture, Design, and Patterns'

ADP 2010

Gordana Rakic, Vladimir Kurbalija

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About course Elective Joint MSc SE course

+4th year “non-Bologna” bachelor students

Summer semester 7.5 ECTS

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Participants Lecturer

Vladimir Kurbalija

Assistant Gordana Rakic

Students Bachelor level – 3 Master level - 14

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Topics - lectures Analogy Master plan Deliverables Elements of SA Analysis evaluation Process organization MDA Design patterns

Topics – exercises/assignments Refactoring Software architecture styles Design patterns

Exam Assignments – 60%

Refactoring – 15% Software architecture styles – 15% Design patterns – 30%

Oral exam – 40% Defend assignment solutions – 10% Oral exam on design patterns – 30%

Students could win extra percentages for individual extra work

Refactoring – exercises Short introduction

Definition

Bad smells

Refactoring that address common bad smells

Each student was asked (during the session) to find one example of code with bad smell

demonstrate refactoring on given example

Refactoring – assignment

5 examples

Students should

find bad smells

propose refactored solution

15 %

Architectural style - exercises Architectural styles by examples Seven common architectural styles proposed by

(Shaw and Garlan, 1994) Pipes and filters Objects Implicit invocation Layering Repositories Interpreters Process Control

Architectural style - assignment

Choose appropriate architecture style

and

develop software architecture for ATM!!!

15%

Design patterns - exercises Design patterns by examples

(Gamma, Helm, Johnson and Vlissides) Creational patterns Structural patterns Behavioral patterns

One pattern from each group was described through example

Each student should find appropriate example to describe one pattern during the session

Design patterns – assignment(s)1. From particular class diagram recognize used

design patterns Give general diagram (“schema”) of used design pattern Find relationship between elements on “schema” and on

particular class diagram 15%

2. From given source code (Draw class diagram) Give general diagram (“schema”) of used design pattern Find relationship between elements on “schema” and on

particular class diagram 15%

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Results (assignments)Refactoring (~15%)

Arch. Styles (~15%)

Design Patterns (~30%) (~60)

14 20 30 64

14 13 25 52

13 20 18 51

5 15 30 50

5 14 25 44

1 30 13 44

4 15 20 39

3 30 20 33

1 15 0 15

4 0 0 4

Results (in total) 6 students passed oral exam 3 students

? Will pass in September exam period ?

Average grade for now ~8.33! We expect ~/>8.5 at the end

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Conclusion First year in this team

Experimental

Students were interested Mainly in (practical) extra works

We need additional innovations for next year Now we know what direction innovations should go

Thank you