Experimental Software Architecture

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Experimental Software Architecture

• Kandidat orientering F2011

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What is ESA then?

• Web page update pending ?
• New and small group ?
• Courses
• dSoftArk ATiSA PA
• Research interests
• Software Architecture in particular
• Software Engineering
• Special emphasis on reliability and flexibility
  techniques
• Teaching

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ATiSA

• Advanced Topics in Software Architecture
• Q3 course
• Focus Design industrial strength software
  architectures and systems
• This springs case WoW

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Thesis writing

• Research interest at the moment
• Architectural Annotations
• Motivation
• Architectural information evaporate
• Architectural information is not present in code
• Proposal
• Annotate the code with architectural information

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Thesis writing

• Example from dSoftArk Strategy pattern
• Can I see that in the code?
• No!

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Thesis writing

• Why dont we just write it in the code, then?
• Maybe like

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Thesis writing

• What do we gain?
• Documentation right in the code
• Static analysis and verification
• Validate proper use of patterns
• Generate proper UML diagrams
• Dynamic analysis and verification
• Validate proper pattern protocol
• Or ?

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Thesis writing

• Small group means limited man power ?
• Thesis writing presently confined to working on
  Architectural Annotations
• Contact
• hbc_at_cs.au.dk