1. PPT and video are due no later than February 15, 2019
CEN 4020
Software Engineering
PPT5: System design
PPT and video are due no later than February 15, 2019
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2. Team members’ contributions
Member [name]:

3. What is design? Content outline: What is design?
Conceptual and technical designs

4. What is design? Content outline: Good conceptual design
Good technical design

5. Decomposition Content outline: Wasserman’s model
Levels of decomposition
Each module must be well defined

6. Architecture styles Content outline: Levels of design
Representation of top-down design

7. Architecture styles Content outline: Pipes and filters
Object-oriented design
Implicit invocation
Layering
Repositories
Interpreters
Process control

8. Design issues: modularity and abstraction
Content outline:
Levels of abstraction

9. Design issues: modularity and abstraction
Content outline:
Modularity

10. Design issues: collaborative design
Content outline:
Team-based design

11. Design issues: collaborative design
Content outline:
Distributed development
Communication

12. Design issues: user interface
Content outline:
Issues must be addressed
Cultures and preferences

13. Design issues: concurrency
Content outline:
Synchronization
Mutual exclusion

14. Design issues: concurrency
Content outline:
Process priority
Methods of concurrency

15. Component independence
Content outline:
Coupling
Forms of coupling

16. Component independence
Content outline:
Types of coupling: from most to least desirable
Charts and explanations

17. Component independence
Content outline:
Cohesion
Types of cohesion
Examples of cohesion

18. Exception handling Content outline: What is exception handling
Typical exceptions and the way to handle them

19. Control issues
Content outline:
Scope of effect

20. Control issues
Content outline:
Scope of component

21. Control issues
Content outline:
Fan-in and fan-out components

22. Fault prevention and tolerance
Content outline:
Fault vs Failure
Fault detection

23. Fault prevention and tolerance
Content outline:
Fault correction
Fault tolerance

24. Reducing complexity Content outline: Reducing complexity
Tools to reduce complexity

25. Improving design
Content outline:
Design by contract

26. Improving design
Content outline:
Prototyping design

27. Improving design
Content outline:
Fault tree analysis

28. Design evaluation and validation
Content outline:
Mathematical validation

29. Design evaluation and validation
Content outline:
Measuring design quality

30. Design evaluation and validation
Content outline:
Comparing designs
Design reviews

31. Design documentation Content outline:
Documentation for customers and developers
Major components