Software Architecture for the Internet of Things

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.

Created by:  EIT Digital

• Taught by:  Frank Gielen, Professor

  UGent/IBCN: Internet Based Communication Networks

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Syllabus


WEEK 1


Getting to know Software Architecture



This module will introduce you to the world of software architecture. We'll define what SA actually is, why it is important and talk about some of the challenges faced in modern Software Engineering. This course is also part of a Blended Master Programme in Internet of Things through Embedded Systems.


6 videos, 5 readings expand

1. Video: Welcome to Software Architecture for IoT
2. Leyendo: How to navigate through this course
3. Leyendo: Learning objectives per week
4. Leyendo: Want more software architecture?
5. Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: IoT and you
6. Video: Challenges in Modern Software Engineering
7. Video: What is Software Architecture?
8. Video: Why is software architecture important? (1)
9. Video: Why is software architecture important? (2)
10. Leyendo: How business goals drive architectural design
11. Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Business goals
12. Video: The role of the software architect
13. Leyendo: Software Architecture in practice: 1, 2, 3

Graded: Challenges in modern software engineering
Graded: The role of the Software Architect

WEEK 2


Design process and software requirements



Creating good software starts with a solid understanding of the requirements that will have an influence on the software. In this module, we will discuss both functional and non-functional requirements, such as quality attributes, business requirements and constraints.


5 videos, 5 readings expand

1. Video: The Software Architecture Design Process
2. Video: Software requirements
3. Video: Documenting Requirements
4. Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: IoT project: requirements
5. Video: What is the ADD process?
6. Leyendo: ADD paper
7. Video: Software Architecture in the Development Process
8. Leyendo: Enabling agility through architecture
9. Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Design process
10. Leyendo: Optional: ADD applied example
11. Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Designing architectures in the real world
12. Leyendo: UberGoogle?
13. Leyendo: Software architecture in practice: 4, 16, 17

Graded: Requirements
Graded: Documenting requirements
Graded: Attribute driven design
Graded: The place of software architecture in the software development process
Graded: UberGoogle Requirements

WEEK 3


Quality Attributes



Up till now, we have been talking about quality in an informal way. However, if you want to build systems that support the required qualities you will need a way to express those quality attributes and understand how you can achieve them. After this module you should be able to formulate your own quality requirements. We will also study 2 qualities that are especially relevant for Internet of Things: interoperability and modifiability.


5 videos, 2 readings expand

1. Video: What are quality attributes?
2. Video: The nature of quality attributes
3. Video: What are QAS?
4. Video: QA - Interoperability
5. Video: QA - Modifiability
6. Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Quality attributes
7. Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: IoT project: quality attributes
8. Leyendo: The missing towels problem
9. Leyendo: Software Architecture in practice: 5, 6, 7

Graded: Quality Attributes
Graded: Quality attribute scenarios
Graded: Interoperability
Graded: The Missing Towels

WEEK 4


Tactics



In the fourth week, we will explain how architectural tactics can help you create a software architecture that achieves the predefined requirements. This is what needs to be done in step three of the ADD - remember? We'll start of by learning about the difference between tactics and patterns. We will give some examples of tactics to achieve interoperability and modifiability. We will discuss the MVC pattern and its relation to the modifiability tactics. Lastly, we'll discuss how MVC is being used in Android.


5 videos, 1 reading expand

1. Video: What are tactics? How do they differ from patterns?
2. Video: Different types of tactics
3. Video: Tactic - Modifiability
4. Leyendo: Modifiability - tactics and patterns pt. 1
5. Video: Introduction to DYAMAND
6. Video: Problems and solutions

Graded: Tactics

WEEK 5


Patterns



In this last week, we will explain how architectural patterns can help you create a software architecture that achieves the predefined requirements. Patterns are closely related to tactics, as we saw last week. First, we'll look at different types of patterns. Then, we'll learn how to combine tactics and patterns. We'll conclude this last week with a case study: DYAMAND's requirements and their architecture.


5 videos, 2 readings expand

1. Video: Different types of patterns
2. Video: Combining Tactics and Patterns
3. Leyendo: Modifiability - tactics and patterns pt. 2
4. Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: IoT project: tactics and patterns
5. Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Where to find patterns and tactics
6. Video: DYAMAND's requirements
7. Video: DYAMAND's architecture (1)
8. Video: DYAMAND's architecture (2)
9. Leyendo: Software Architecture in practice: 13
10. Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: DYAMAND case study reflection

Graded: Patterns