Software Architecture and Software Engineering for Web-based Applications

Course aim

To present systematic methods for good software engineering of web-based applications through an examination of their high level software architectures.

Course content

Definitions of web based applications and models of web based applications. Review of the web infrastructure. Taxonomy of the web based software infrastructure; tiers and abstraction layers. Web Application Servers. Issues of locality distribution, execution segmentation, interface granularity, network performance variability and the wide range of user capabilities and user requirements for the same application as they affect application development. Overview of application servers, enterprise java beans, java servers, java server pages, Java API for XML processing and ASP.net. Basics of software architecture as it relates to web based applications. Projection of models to derive architectures for web based applications. Examples of implementation frameworks for web based applications. Assessment of architectures and implementations of web based applications for maintainability; understand ability and modifiability.

Textbook(s)

Richard N. Taylor, Nenad Medvidovic, Eric Dashofy 2009, Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice, Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated ISBN-13: 9780470167748

Nick Rozanski and Eoin Woods Addison 2005, Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives , Wesley

Prerequisite(s)

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Assignment 1, Assignment 2, Examination

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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