COMP SCI 457: Software Architecture: Requirements & Design

Course Description

Introduction to requirements and design engineering with emphasis on organization and presentation of system requirements and designs for customers, users and engineers; validation of requirements and design with needs of system customer; examination of requirement and design changes during the lifetime of a system; transformation of informal ideas into formal detailed descriptions; examination of the different stages in the design process including architectural design, interface design and data structure design, database design, program and transaction design; examination of domain modeling criteria and examination of design quality attributes; non-functional attributes and project resource allocation.