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• 1 Introduction and Admin
• 2 Course Overview
  • Additional reading: Your Car’s New Software Is Ready. Update Now?
• 3 UML Overview
• 4 Design Pattern Review
• 5 Software Architecture and Styles
  • Readings:
    • An Introduction to Software Architecture
    • The Architecture of Open Source Applications
• 6 Architecture Recovery and Analysis
  • Readings:
    • Linux as a case study: its extracted software architecture
    • Forward and reverse repair of software architecture
  • Lab (Notes, Lab Materials, c488 Source Code)
• 7 Reflexion Models
  • Readings:
    • Software reflexion models: bridging the gap between source and high-level models
    • Using development history sticky notes to understand software architecture
• 8 Reference Architecture
  • Readings:
    • A reference architecture for Web servers
• 9 4 + 1 Views
  • Readings:
    • The 4+1 View Model of architecture
• 10 Software Refactoring
  • Readings:
    • When and Why Your Code Starts to Smell Bad
    • Why we refactor? Here are 44 different reasons, according to GitHub contributors
  • Additional Readings:
    • The Birth of Refactoring: A Retrospective on the Nature of High-Impact Software Engineering Research by Griswold and Opdyke
• 11 Project Scheduling
• 12 Cost Estimation
  • (Optional Reading) Negative results for software effort estimation
• 13 Software Performance Engineering

• 1 The Architecture of Open Source Applications
• 2 An Introduction to Software Architecture
• 3 Software Architecture: An Annotated Bibliography
• 4 Design Pattern Library
• 5 Handbook of Software Architecture
• 6 Code City
• 7 Toyota Unintended Acceleration and the Big Bowl of “Spaghetti” Code
• 8 The Changing Role of the Software Architect
• 9 Negative results for software effort estimation

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