Software Design
Design principles
Problem partitioning
Abstraction
Top down and bottom up-design
Structured approach
Functional versus object oriented approach
Design specifications and verification
Monitoring and control
Cohesiveness
Coupling
Fourth generation techniques
Functional independence
Software Architecture
Transaction and Transform Mapping
Software Lifecycle Models / Software Development Models
Types of Software development models
Waterfall Model
Features of Waterfall Model
Phase of Waterfall Model
Prototype Model
Advantages of Prototype Model
Disadvantages of Prototype model
V Model
Advantages of V-model
Disadvantages of V-model
When to use the V-model
Incremental Model
ITERATIVE AND INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT
INCREMENTAL MODEL LIFE CYCLE
When to use the Incremental model
Rapid Application Development RAD Model
phases in the rapid application development (RAD) model
Advantages of the RAD model
Disadvantages of RAD model
When to use RAD model
Agile Model
Advantages of Agile model
Disadvantages of Agile model
When to use Agile model
Software design is an iterative process that translates requirements into a blueprint for constructing software. It involves understanding the problem from different perspectives, identifying solutions, and describing solution abstractions using notations. The design must satisfy users and developers by being correct, complete, understandable, and maintainable. During the design process, specifications are transformed into design models describing data structures, architecture, interfaces, and components, which are reviewed before development.
Software Architecture and Design IntroductionUsman Khan
The document discusses software architecture and design. It defines software architecture as describing a system's major components, their relationships, and how they interact. Software design provides a plan for how system elements fit and work together. An important role of architecture is to identify requirements that affect structure and reduce risks. Quality attributes, both static and dynamic, are important non-functional properties like maintainability, performance, and security. Architects must consider these attributes and deliver solutions that technical teams can implement.
This document discusses understanding requirements in software engineering. It outlines the key tasks in requirements engineering as inception, elicitation, elaboration, negotiation, specification, validation and management. Elicitation involves drawing requirements from stakeholders but can be difficult due to problems with scope, volatility, understanding and communication. Elaboration develops a refined technical model using information from inception and elicitation. Negotiation aims to agree on a realistic deliverable through prioritization and negotiation. Specification can take various forms depending on the system. Validation reviews the specification for errors and omissions. Requirements management handles changing requirements throughout the project.
The document discusses various aspects of software quality assurance (SQA) such as the role of the SQA group in preparing an SQA plan and reviewing software engineering activities to ensure compliance. It also covers SQA goals like requirements, design, and code quality. Statistical SQA involves collecting defect information to identify causes and fixes. Six Sigma methodology aims for high quality through defining, measuring, analyzing, and improving processes. Software reliability, availability, and safety are also addressed.
The document introduces software architecture and architectural design. It discusses that architectural design is important for understanding how a software system should be organized. The objectives are to understand the importance of architecture, decisions made in the design process, and architectural patterns. It also covers topics like architectural views, patterns, and application architectures.
This document discusses various topics related to software design including design principles, concepts, modeling, and architecture. It provides examples of class/data design, architectural design, interface design, and component design. Some key points discussed include:
- Software design creates representations and models that provide details on architecture, data structures, interfaces, and components needed to implement the system.
- Design concepts like abstraction, modularity, encapsulation, and information hiding are important to reduce complexity and improve design.
- Different types of design models include data/class design, architectural design, interface design, and component-level design.
- Good software architecture and design lead to systems that are more understandable, maintainable, and of higher quality.
Software Lifecycle Models / Software Development Models
Types of Software development models
Waterfall Model
Features of Waterfall Model
Phase of Waterfall Model
Prototype Model
Advantages of Prototype Model
Disadvantages of Prototype model
V Model
Advantages of V-model
Disadvantages of V-model
When to use the V-model
Incremental Model
ITERATIVE AND INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT
INCREMENTAL MODEL LIFE CYCLE
When to use the Incremental model
Rapid Application Development RAD Model
phases in the rapid application development (RAD) model
Advantages of the RAD model
Disadvantages of RAD model
When to use RAD model
Agile Model
Advantages of Agile model
Disadvantages of Agile model
When to use Agile model
Software design is an iterative process that translates requirements into a blueprint for constructing software. It involves understanding the problem from different perspectives, identifying solutions, and describing solution abstractions using notations. The design must satisfy users and developers by being correct, complete, understandable, and maintainable. During the design process, specifications are transformed into design models describing data structures, architecture, interfaces, and components, which are reviewed before development.
Software Architecture and Design IntroductionUsman Khan
The document discusses software architecture and design. It defines software architecture as describing a system's major components, their relationships, and how they interact. Software design provides a plan for how system elements fit and work together. An important role of architecture is to identify requirements that affect structure and reduce risks. Quality attributes, both static and dynamic, are important non-functional properties like maintainability, performance, and security. Architects must consider these attributes and deliver solutions that technical teams can implement.
This document discusses understanding requirements in software engineering. It outlines the key tasks in requirements engineering as inception, elicitation, elaboration, negotiation, specification, validation and management. Elicitation involves drawing requirements from stakeholders but can be difficult due to problems with scope, volatility, understanding and communication. Elaboration develops a refined technical model using information from inception and elicitation. Negotiation aims to agree on a realistic deliverable through prioritization and negotiation. Specification can take various forms depending on the system. Validation reviews the specification for errors and omissions. Requirements management handles changing requirements throughout the project.
The document discusses various aspects of software quality assurance (SQA) such as the role of the SQA group in preparing an SQA plan and reviewing software engineering activities to ensure compliance. It also covers SQA goals like requirements, design, and code quality. Statistical SQA involves collecting defect information to identify causes and fixes. Six Sigma methodology aims for high quality through defining, measuring, analyzing, and improving processes. Software reliability, availability, and safety are also addressed.
The document introduces software architecture and architectural design. It discusses that architectural design is important for understanding how a software system should be organized. The objectives are to understand the importance of architecture, decisions made in the design process, and architectural patterns. It also covers topics like architectural views, patterns, and application architectures.
This document discusses various topics related to software design including design principles, concepts, modeling, and architecture. It provides examples of class/data design, architectural design, interface design, and component design. Some key points discussed include:
- Software design creates representations and models that provide details on architecture, data structures, interfaces, and components needed to implement the system.
- Design concepts like abstraction, modularity, encapsulation, and information hiding are important to reduce complexity and improve design.
- Different types of design models include data/class design, architectural design, interface design, and component-level design.
- Good software architecture and design lead to systems that are more understandable, maintainable, and of higher quality.
Introduction to software engineering
Software products
Why Software is Important?
Software costs
Features of Software?
Software Applications
Software—New Categories
Software Engineering
Importance of Software Engineering
Essential attributes / Characteristics of good software
Software Components
Software Process
Five Activities of a Generic Process framework
Relative Costs of Fixing Software Faults
Software Qualities
Software crisis
Software Development Stages/SDLC
What is Software Verification
Advantages of Software Verification
Advantages of Validation
Software life cycle model: The descriptive and diagrammatic representation of the software life cycle
It represent all the activities performed on software product from the inception to retirement
It also depicts the order in which these activities are to be undertaken
More than one activity can be carried out in a single phase
The primary advantage of adhering to a life cycle model is that it encourages development of software in a systematic and disciplined manner
When a program is developed by a single programmer ,he has the freedom to decide the exact steps through which he will develop the program
Iterative Linear Sequential Model
This document provides an introduction to software architecture concepts. It defines key terms like software architecture, architectural styles, patterns, elements and stakeholders.
It describes software architecture as the set of principal design decisions about a system. The main elements are components, connectors and configuration. Architectural styles and patterns provide general and specific design decisions to organize systems. Models are used to capture architectural designs. Architecture influences various software development processes. Stakeholders in architecture include architects, developers, testers, managers and users.
The document discusses various methods for estimating project costs, including conceptual and detailed estimates. It describes non-algorithmic methods like analogy costing, expert judgement, and Parkinson's method. Algorithmic methods discussed include linear models, power function models, and the COCOMO models. The COCOMO models are described in detail, including the basic and intermediate COCOMO'81 models which estimate effort or cost as a function of lines of code and other cost factors.
System engineering involves determining operational requirements and modeling relationships between elements like hardware, software, and people to accomplish goals. It can focus on business processes or product development. The engineering process follows a hierarchy from overall objectives to domain specifications to element implementations. It is iterative to adapt to changing needs. Business process engineering derives data, application, and technology architectures, while product engineering defines architectures and infrastructure for software, hardware, data, and people components.
The document discusses several prescriptive software process models including:
1) The waterfall model which follows sequential phases from requirements to deployment but lacks iteration.
2) The incremental model which delivers functionality in increments with each phase repeated.
3) Prototyping which focuses on visible aspects to refine requirements through iterative prototypes and feedback.
4) The RAD (Rapid Application Development) model which emphasizes very short development cycles of 60-90 days using parallel teams and automated tools. The document provides descriptions and diagrams of each model.
Quality Attributes In Software Architecture & Design PatternsGatte Ravindranath
Quality Attributes Topic from Software Architecture $ Design patterns in the relation to software product or any engineering architecture development process needs required by an architect.
This document discusses requirements modeling in software engineering. It covers creating various models during requirements analysis, including scenario-based models, data models, class-oriented models, flow-oriented models, and behavioral models. These models form the requirements model, which is the first technical representation of a system. The document provides examples of writing use cases and constructing a preliminary use case diagram for a home security system called SafeHome. It emphasizes that requirements modeling lays the foundation for software specification and design.
The document discusses software architecture design. It defines software architecture as the structure of components, relationships between components, and properties of components. An architectural design model can be applied to other systems and represents predictable ways to describe architecture. The architecture represents a system and enables analysis of effectiveness in meeting requirements and reducing risks. Key aspects of architectural design include communication between stakeholders, controlling complexity, consistency, reducing risks, and enabling reuse. Common architectural styles discussed include data-centered, data flow, call-and-return, object-oriented, and layered architectures.
The document discusses software project planning and estimation. It explains that project planning involves estimating the time, effort, people and resources required. The key activities in planning are estimation, scheduling, risk analysis, quality planning and change management. Estimation techniques include decomposition, using historical data, and empirical models. Factors to consider in estimation include feasibility, resources like people and tools, and make-or-buy decisions about reusable software.
The document discusses the phases of project management and software quality assurance and testing. It describes the four phases of the Unified Process: Inception, Elaboration, Construction, and Transition. Each phase has specific objectives and outcomes. The Inception phase involves requirements gathering and planning. The Elaboration phase establishes architecture and designs use cases. The Construction phase implements the project. The Transition phase involves beta testing, training users, and assessing customer satisfaction.
This document provides an introduction to software engineering. It discusses the evolving role of software, characteristics of software like correctness and maintainability, and categories of software like system software and web applications. It also covers legacy software, common software myths, project management processes, and challenges with project estimation. The key aspects of software engineering like the definition, development, and maintenance phases are summarized.
This document discusses key software design principles:
1. Modularization, abstraction, and encapsulation aim to break down a system into independent and cohesive modules that hide unnecessary details.
2. Coupling and cohesion measure the interdependence between modules - loose coupling and high cohesion where related code is grouped together are ideal.
3. Other principles like separation of interface and implementation, sufficiency, and completeness focus on defining clean interfaces and providing only necessary functionality. The document provides examples and comparisons to explain these fundamental software design concepts.
This document discusses architecture in agile projects. It covers how agile methods like Scrum incorporate architecture through iterative development and continuous delivery. It also discusses balancing upfront architecture work with flexibility through methods like Architecture Tradeoff Analysis and attribute-driven design. A case study shows how one project used agile practices like continuous experimentation, refactoring, and incremental improvements to develop a complex system architecture.
Waterfall Model PPT in Software EngineeringRaju Sheoran
What is Waterfall Model? History of waterfall model, Advantages, Disadvantages and much more realted to waterfall model.
The waterfall model is the basic and simple software development life cycle model. But idealistic. Earlier the waterfall model was very popular but these days it is not used while software development. And the model was divided into phases and all the phases are organized in linear order. This model was first introduced by Dr. Winston in 1970.
This model is very popular and very important because all the models in software development life cycle models are based on it. So, we can call it, It is the base of all software development life cycle models or it is known as Classical Waterfall Model.
This document discusses software project management artifacts. Artifacts are organized into management and engineering sets. The management set includes artifacts like the work breakdown structure, business case, and software development plan. The engineering set includes requirement, design, implementation, and deployment artifact sets. Each set captures information through various notations and tools to manage the software development lifecycle.
This document discusses different types of architecture views, including the module architecture view. It defines a view as a combination of structures that share common properties or perspectives. Architecture is described as the high-level structure of a software system that organizes its elements. The goals of architecture are to expose a system's structure while hiding implementation details and addressing requirements.
The module architecture view shows how key system elements are mapped to modules and subsystems, which are decomposed and assigned to layers based on dependencies. It defines the modules and their inherent relations without specifying a product configuration. Diagrams like package diagrams and class diagrams are used to depict subsystem decomposition and module use-dependencies.
The document discusses checkpoints in the software project management process. It describes three types of joint management reviews: major milestones, minor milestones, and status assessments. Major milestones provide visibility on system-wide issues and verify phase aims. Minor milestones review iteration content and authorize continued work. Status assessments provide frequent management insight. Different stakeholders have different concerns at checkpoints.
The document discusses component-level design which occurs after architectural design. It aims to create a design model from analysis and architectural models. Component-level design can be represented using graphical, tabular, or text-based notations. The key aspects covered include:
- Defining a software component as a modular building block with interfaces and collaboration
- Designing class-based components following principles like open-closed and dependency inversion
- Guidelines for high cohesion and low coupling in components
- Designing conventional components using notations like sequence, if-then-else, and tabular representations
This document discusses key concepts in software design engineering including analysis models, design models, the programmer's approach versus best practices, purposes of design, quality guidelines, design principles, fundamental concepts like abstraction and architecture, and specific design concepts like patterns, modularity, and information hiding. It emphasizes that design is important for translating requirements into a quality software solution before implementation begins.
Introduction to software engineering
Software products
Why Software is Important?
Software costs
Features of Software?
Software Applications
Software—New Categories
Software Engineering
Importance of Software Engineering
Essential attributes / Characteristics of good software
Software Components
Software Process
Five Activities of a Generic Process framework
Relative Costs of Fixing Software Faults
Software Qualities
Software crisis
Software Development Stages/SDLC
What is Software Verification
Advantages of Software Verification
Advantages of Validation
Software life cycle model: The descriptive and diagrammatic representation of the software life cycle
It represent all the activities performed on software product from the inception to retirement
It also depicts the order in which these activities are to be undertaken
More than one activity can be carried out in a single phase
The primary advantage of adhering to a life cycle model is that it encourages development of software in a systematic and disciplined manner
When a program is developed by a single programmer ,he has the freedom to decide the exact steps through which he will develop the program
Iterative Linear Sequential Model
This document provides an introduction to software architecture concepts. It defines key terms like software architecture, architectural styles, patterns, elements and stakeholders.
It describes software architecture as the set of principal design decisions about a system. The main elements are components, connectors and configuration. Architectural styles and patterns provide general and specific design decisions to organize systems. Models are used to capture architectural designs. Architecture influences various software development processes. Stakeholders in architecture include architects, developers, testers, managers and users.
The document discusses various methods for estimating project costs, including conceptual and detailed estimates. It describes non-algorithmic methods like analogy costing, expert judgement, and Parkinson's method. Algorithmic methods discussed include linear models, power function models, and the COCOMO models. The COCOMO models are described in detail, including the basic and intermediate COCOMO'81 models which estimate effort or cost as a function of lines of code and other cost factors.
System engineering involves determining operational requirements and modeling relationships between elements like hardware, software, and people to accomplish goals. It can focus on business processes or product development. The engineering process follows a hierarchy from overall objectives to domain specifications to element implementations. It is iterative to adapt to changing needs. Business process engineering derives data, application, and technology architectures, while product engineering defines architectures and infrastructure for software, hardware, data, and people components.
The document discusses several prescriptive software process models including:
1) The waterfall model which follows sequential phases from requirements to deployment but lacks iteration.
2) The incremental model which delivers functionality in increments with each phase repeated.
3) Prototyping which focuses on visible aspects to refine requirements through iterative prototypes and feedback.
4) The RAD (Rapid Application Development) model which emphasizes very short development cycles of 60-90 days using parallel teams and automated tools. The document provides descriptions and diagrams of each model.
Quality Attributes In Software Architecture & Design PatternsGatte Ravindranath
Quality Attributes Topic from Software Architecture $ Design patterns in the relation to software product or any engineering architecture development process needs required by an architect.
This document discusses requirements modeling in software engineering. It covers creating various models during requirements analysis, including scenario-based models, data models, class-oriented models, flow-oriented models, and behavioral models. These models form the requirements model, which is the first technical representation of a system. The document provides examples of writing use cases and constructing a preliminary use case diagram for a home security system called SafeHome. It emphasizes that requirements modeling lays the foundation for software specification and design.
The document discusses software architecture design. It defines software architecture as the structure of components, relationships between components, and properties of components. An architectural design model can be applied to other systems and represents predictable ways to describe architecture. The architecture represents a system and enables analysis of effectiveness in meeting requirements and reducing risks. Key aspects of architectural design include communication between stakeholders, controlling complexity, consistency, reducing risks, and enabling reuse. Common architectural styles discussed include data-centered, data flow, call-and-return, object-oriented, and layered architectures.
The document discusses software project planning and estimation. It explains that project planning involves estimating the time, effort, people and resources required. The key activities in planning are estimation, scheduling, risk analysis, quality planning and change management. Estimation techniques include decomposition, using historical data, and empirical models. Factors to consider in estimation include feasibility, resources like people and tools, and make-or-buy decisions about reusable software.
The document discusses the phases of project management and software quality assurance and testing. It describes the four phases of the Unified Process: Inception, Elaboration, Construction, and Transition. Each phase has specific objectives and outcomes. The Inception phase involves requirements gathering and planning. The Elaboration phase establishes architecture and designs use cases. The Construction phase implements the project. The Transition phase involves beta testing, training users, and assessing customer satisfaction.
This document provides an introduction to software engineering. It discusses the evolving role of software, characteristics of software like correctness and maintainability, and categories of software like system software and web applications. It also covers legacy software, common software myths, project management processes, and challenges with project estimation. The key aspects of software engineering like the definition, development, and maintenance phases are summarized.
This document discusses key software design principles:
1. Modularization, abstraction, and encapsulation aim to break down a system into independent and cohesive modules that hide unnecessary details.
2. Coupling and cohesion measure the interdependence between modules - loose coupling and high cohesion where related code is grouped together are ideal.
3. Other principles like separation of interface and implementation, sufficiency, and completeness focus on defining clean interfaces and providing only necessary functionality. The document provides examples and comparisons to explain these fundamental software design concepts.
This document discusses architecture in agile projects. It covers how agile methods like Scrum incorporate architecture through iterative development and continuous delivery. It also discusses balancing upfront architecture work with flexibility through methods like Architecture Tradeoff Analysis and attribute-driven design. A case study shows how one project used agile practices like continuous experimentation, refactoring, and incremental improvements to develop a complex system architecture.
Waterfall Model PPT in Software EngineeringRaju Sheoran
What is Waterfall Model? History of waterfall model, Advantages, Disadvantages and much more realted to waterfall model.
The waterfall model is the basic and simple software development life cycle model. But idealistic. Earlier the waterfall model was very popular but these days it is not used while software development. And the model was divided into phases and all the phases are organized in linear order. This model was first introduced by Dr. Winston in 1970.
This model is very popular and very important because all the models in software development life cycle models are based on it. So, we can call it, It is the base of all software development life cycle models or it is known as Classical Waterfall Model.
This document discusses software project management artifacts. Artifacts are organized into management and engineering sets. The management set includes artifacts like the work breakdown structure, business case, and software development plan. The engineering set includes requirement, design, implementation, and deployment artifact sets. Each set captures information through various notations and tools to manage the software development lifecycle.
This document discusses different types of architecture views, including the module architecture view. It defines a view as a combination of structures that share common properties or perspectives. Architecture is described as the high-level structure of a software system that organizes its elements. The goals of architecture are to expose a system's structure while hiding implementation details and addressing requirements.
The module architecture view shows how key system elements are mapped to modules and subsystems, which are decomposed and assigned to layers based on dependencies. It defines the modules and their inherent relations without specifying a product configuration. Diagrams like package diagrams and class diagrams are used to depict subsystem decomposition and module use-dependencies.
The document discusses checkpoints in the software project management process. It describes three types of joint management reviews: major milestones, minor milestones, and status assessments. Major milestones provide visibility on system-wide issues and verify phase aims. Minor milestones review iteration content and authorize continued work. Status assessments provide frequent management insight. Different stakeholders have different concerns at checkpoints.
The document discusses component-level design which occurs after architectural design. It aims to create a design model from analysis and architectural models. Component-level design can be represented using graphical, tabular, or text-based notations. The key aspects covered include:
- Defining a software component as a modular building block with interfaces and collaboration
- Designing class-based components following principles like open-closed and dependency inversion
- Guidelines for high cohesion and low coupling in components
- Designing conventional components using notations like sequence, if-then-else, and tabular representations
This document discusses key concepts in software design engineering including analysis models, design models, the programmer's approach versus best practices, purposes of design, quality guidelines, design principles, fundamental concepts like abstraction and architecture, and specific design concepts like patterns, modularity, and information hiding. It emphasizes that design is important for translating requirements into a quality software solution before implementation begins.
The document discusses component-level design which occurs after architectural design. It aims to create a detailed design model from previous models. Key points:
- A software component is a modular building block with well-defined interfaces and collaboration. Components can be viewed as classes, modules, or reusable processes.
- Effective design follows principles like open-closed and dependency inversion. Components have well-defined dependencies and inheritance relationships.
- Class-based components are designed for high cohesion and low coupling. Conventional components are derived from analysis models and decompose problems into logical modules.
The document provides an overview of architectural design in software engineering. It defines software architecture as the structure of components, relationships between them, and properties. The key steps in architectural design are creating data design, representing structure, analyzing styles, and elaborating chosen style. It emphasizes software components and their focus. Examples of architectural styles discussed include data flow, call-and-return, data-centered, and virtual machine.
The document discusses key aspects of the software design process including that design is iterative and represented at a high level of abstraction, guidelines for quality design include modularity, information hiding, and functional independence, and architectural design defines system context and archetypes that compose the system.
Function-oriented design views a system as modules with clearly defined behaviors that interact to meet requirements. It discusses various design methodologies including structured design methodology which involves identifying inputs/outputs and transformations, and factoring modules into submodules. Design quality can be evaluated using metrics related to cohesion, coupling, complexity, and information flow.
The document provides an overview of basic software design concepts including the design process, quality factors, techniques, methodologies, approaches, models, modularization, data design, guidelines, verification, and key issues. It discusses that software design is an iterative process of translating requirements into a system blueprint. The design process involves informal to more formal designs. Quality factors, architectures, technologies, styles, and decomposition are considered. Top-down and bottom-up approaches are described. Modularization, data design, and guidelines are covered. Verification ensures the design is valid before implementation. Key issues are areas most prone to mistakes.
The document discusses key design concepts in software engineering including abstraction, architecture, patterns, separation of concerns, modularity, information hiding, refinement, functional independence, aspects, refactoring, object-oriented design concepts, and design classes. It provides details on each concept, their importance in software design, and how they lead to the development of high-quality software.
The document provides an overview of software architectural design, including:
1) Definitions of software architecture, architectural design, and architectural design models. The architectural design process involves creating a data design, deriving architectural representations, analyzing styles, and elaborating the selected style.
2) An emphasis on software components as the basic elements of an architecture. Common component types include modules, classes, databases, and middleware.
3) The importance of architectural design for communication, early impactful decisions, and managing complexity through abstraction. Example diagrams are provided.
4) Descriptions of common architectural styles like data flow, call-and-return, object-oriented, layered, and data-centered styles. Adv
The document discusses software architectural design, including defining architectural design, the architectural design process, common architectural styles, and assessing alternative designs. It focuses on data design, styles like data flow and call-and-return, and evaluating designs using quality attributes and sensitivity analysis. The goal is to select an architectural style best suited to requirements and provide a structured high-level view of the system components and relationships.
The document discusses architectural documentation. It covers views, which divide an architecture into manageable representations. Relevant views depend on usage and include module, component-and-connector, and allocation views. Each view has a template for documentation, including a primary presentation, element catalog, context diagram, variability guide, and rationale. Cross-view documentation explains the organization, what the architecture contains through a system overview and element list, and the rationale for design decisions. Architectural documentation aims to educate users, enable communication, and provide a basis for construction and analysis.
The design model transforms requirements from the analysis model into a blueprint for constructing the software. It includes four main elements: the data/class design, architectural design, interface design, and component-level design. These elements are developed iteratively through increasing levels of abstraction, starting with high-level elements that are traced to requirements and refining into lower-level representations. The design model aims to implement requirements while considering quality guidelines around modularity, patterns, and other design concepts.
This document provides an overview of software engineering concepts related to software design. It discusses the definition and activities of software design, including preliminary and detailed design. It covers software design principles, considerations, and processes. It also describes various software design tools like data flow diagrams, structure charts, and entity-relationship models. Finally, it discusses object-oriented design, user interface design, data design, architectural design, interface design, and component-level design.
This document discusses software design principles and concepts. It covers key aspects of software design such as data design, architectural design, interface design, component design, abstraction, refinement, modularity, architecture, control hierarchy, structural partitioning, data structures, software procedures, and information hiding. The document emphasizes that software design is an iterative process that translates requirements into a blueprint for constructing software. Good design principles include traceability, reuse, and accommodating change. Modular design aims for functional independence, cohesion and low coupling between modules.
The document discusses architectural design, including software architecture, architecture genres, styles, and design. It covers topics such as what architecture is, why it's important, architectural descriptions, decisions, genres like artificial intelligence and operating systems, styles like layered and object-oriented, patterns, organization/refinement, representing systems in context, defining archetypes, refining into components, describing instantiations, and assessing alternative designs.
This document discusses key concepts and principles of software design. It explains that software design transforms analysis models into a design model through activities like architectural design, interface design, data design, and component-level design. Some key design concepts discussed include abstraction, refinement, modularity, architecture, procedures, and information hiding. The document also covers principles of effective modular design such as high cohesion and low coupling between modules. Different types of cohesion and coupling are defined. Overall, the document provides an overview of the software design process and some fundamental concepts involved.
The document discusses software architecture, defining it as the set of structures needed to reason about a software system, including elements, relations among elements, and element properties. It identifies three categories of architectural structures: module structures that partition system functionality; component-and-connector structures that describe element interactions at runtime; and allocation structures that map software to development and execution environments. The document emphasizes that architecture is an abstraction that supports reasoning about a system, and that every system has an architecture whether represented or not.
This presentation discusses software architecture. It defines software architecture as the structure of components, relationships, and properties of a system. The architecture is important because it allows analysis of a design's effectiveness before development. It also enables communication between stakeholders. The objectives of architectural design are to introduce the concept, explain multiple models, and describe types of models. The presentation covers architectural models, design processes, system architecture concepts, and two common system organization styles: the repository model and client-server model. It provides examples of each.
This ppt covers the following topics
Introduction
The software component
Designing class-based components
Designing conventional components
Thus it covers Component level design
1. What are the differences between a DBMS and RDBMS?
2. Explain the terms database and DBMS. Also, mention the different types of DBMS.
3. What are the advantages of DBMS?
4. Mention the different languages present in DBMS
5. What do you understand by query optimization?
6. Do we consider NULL values the same as that of blank space or zero?
7. What do you understand by aggregation and atomicity?
8. What are the different levels of abstraction in the DBMS?
9. What is an entity-relationship model?
10. What do you understand by the terms Entity, Entity Type, and Entity Set in DBMS?
11. What are relationships and mention different types of relationships in the DBMS
12. What is concurrency control?
13. What are the ACID properties in DBMS?
14. What is normalization and what are the different types of normalization?
15. What are the different types of keys in the database?
16. What do you understand by correlated subqueries in DBMS?
17. Explain Database partitioning and its importance.
18. What do you understand by functional dependency and transitive dependency in DBMS?
19. What is the difference between two and three-tier architectures?
20. Mention the differences between Unique Key and Primary Key
21. What is a checkpoint in DBMS and when does it occur?
22. Mention the differences between Trigger and Stored Procedures
23. What are the differences between Hash join, Merge join and Nested loops?
24. What do you understand by Proactive, Retroactive and Simultaneous Update?
25. What are indexes? Mention the differences between the clustered and non-clustered index
26. What do you understand by intension and extension?
27. What do you understand by cursor? Mention the different types of cursor A cursor is a database object which helps in manipulating data, row by row and represents a result set.
28. Explain the terms specialization and generalization
29. What do you understand by Data Independence?
30. What are the different integrity rules present in the DBMS?
31. What does Fill Factor concept mean with respect to indexes?
32. What is Index hunting and how does it help in improving query performance?
33. What are the differences between network and hierarchical database model?
34. Explain what is a deadlock and mention how it can be resolved?
35. What are the differences between an exclusive lock and a shared lock?
=>Concept of Governance
=>Risk and Control (GRC) as applicable to IT operational risk
=>Importance of documentation
=>DATA FLOW DIAGRAM for every application
=>Review of changes in the Data flow, reporting, etc.
=>Parameters for review
=>Importance of review on SLA compliance
=>Reporting to IT Strategy committee, Board etc.
Importance of Data - Where to find it, how to store, manipulate, and characterize it
Artificial Intelligence (AI)- Introduction to AI & ML Technologies/ Applications
Machine Learning (ML), Basic Machine Learning algorithms.
Applications of AI & ML in Marketing, Sales, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain
& Human Resources Data Governance
Legal and Ethical Issues
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Internet of Things (IoT)
Cloud Computing
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Data Models, Schema and Instances
Components of Database System
What is DBMS ?
Database Languages
Applications of DBMS
Introduction to Databases
Fundamentals of Data Modeling and Database Design
Database Normalization
Types of keys in database management system
Distributed Database
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CASE and its Scope
CASE support in software life cycle documentation
project management
Internal Interface
Reverse Software Engineering
Architecture of CASE environment.
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Reliability issues
Reliability metrics
Reliability growth modeling
Software quality
ISO 9000 certification for software industry
SEI capability maturity model
comparison between ISO and SEI CMM
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Different Types of Software Testing
Verification
Validation
Unit Testing
Beta Testing
Alpha Testing
Black Box Testing
White Box testing
Error
Bug
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Categories of Cloud Computing
SaaS
PaaS
IaaS
Threads of Cloud Computing
Insurance Challenges
Cloud Solutions
Security of the Insurance Industry
Cloud Solutions
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Application Software
Applications Software
Software Types
Task-Oriented Productivity Software
Business Software
Application Software and Ethics
Computers and People
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Syntax + semantics?
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5. The Design Model
• Data Design
– Transforms information
domain model into data
structures required to
implement software
• Architectural Design
– Defines relationship among
the major structural
elements of a program
Procedural
Design
Interface Design
Architectural Design
Data Design
The Design Model
Which is mapped from the
Analysis model
6. The Design Model
• Interface Design
– Describes how the software
communicates with itself,
to systems that interact
with it and with humans.
• Procedural Design
– Transforms structural
elements of the
architecture into a
procedural description of
software construction
Procedural
Design
Interface Design
Architectural Design
Data Design
The Design Model
Which is mapped from the
Analysis model
7. Design methodology
….is a systematic approach to create a design by applying of
a set of techniques and guidelines.
Input – specifications of the system to be designed
Output – system design
8. Object Oriented Design
vs
Function Oriented Design
• Object - oriented : modules in the design represent data abstraction
• Function - oriented : consists of module definitions, with each
module supporting a functional abstraction
• Function-oriented design views a system as a set of modules with
clearly defined behavior that interact with each other in a clearly
defined manner to meet the system's requirements.
9. Design Objectives
• The goal of software design is to find the best
possible design that meets your needs
• You may have to explore different designs
• Unfortunately, evaluation criteria for a design
are often subjective and non-quantifiable
10. • Major criteria to evaluate a design
– Correctness
• A software design is correct if a system built precisely according to the
requirements of the system
• A design should be verifiable (does an implementation match the design),
complete (does the design address its specified requirements) and traceable
(all design elements can be traced back to specific requirements)
– Efficiency
• Does the design efficiently make use of scarce resources: such as memory on
a wireless sensor
– Maintainability and Simplicity
• How easy is it for the design of a system to be understood?
• Simpler designs make it easy for a developer to understand and then
maintain the system
– Cost
• Does the design help to reduce costs in later phases of software
development?
• Can one design achieve the same quality as another design while reducing
costs?
11. Problem analysis Vs Design Principles
• Constructing a model of
problem domain
• Model depends on the
system
• Model is used to understand
the problem
Constructing a model of
solution domain
System depends on the
model
Model is used for
optimization
12. Design Principles
• Problem Partitioning and Hierarchy
• Abstraction
• Modularity
• Top-Down and Bottom-Up Strategies
13. Problem Partitioning and Hierarchy
• Divide and Conquer
• Decompose system into smaller and smaller pieces
– Ideally, each piece can be solved separately
– Ideally, each piece can be modified independent of other pieces
• Reality: each piece must communicate with other pieces
– This communication implies a certain cost
– At some point the cost is more than the benefit provided by the
individual pieces
– At this point, the decomposition process can stop
14. Abstraction
• Abstraction is a powerful concept used in all
engineering disciplines
• It is a tool that permits a developer to consider a
component in terms of the services (behaviors) it
provides without worrying about the details of its
implementation
15. Contd…
• Abstraction is an excellent tool for creating a hierarchical understanding of a
system's functionality
• In design contexts, you might see references to two “types” of abstraction
– functional abstraction: a module is specified by the functions it performs
– data abstraction: a data structure is manipulated in terms of pre-defined
operations; the implementation of the data structure is hidden from its
users (only operations are visible)
– The former is primarily used in functional design, the latter is used
primarily in object-oriented design
16. Data Abstraction
door
implemented as a data structure
manufacturer
model number
type
swing direction
inserts
lights
type
number
weight
opening mechanism
17. Modularity
• A system is considered modular if it consists of discreet
components so that each component can be implemented
separately, and a change to one component has minimal
impact on other components
• Helps in system repair and in system building
• Each component needs to support a well-defined
abstraction and have a specific interface that other modules
use to interact with it
• As Jalote says “Modularity is where abstraction and
partitioning come together”.
18. Top-Down vs Bottom-Up Design
• A system consists of a set of components, which have
subcomponents of their own
– The highest level component is the system itself, a concept we have
seen when discussing context diagrams
• We can design such a hierarchy using either a top-down approach or
a bottom-up approach
– In reality, we use both approaches and meet in the middle
• A top-down approach starts with the system as a whole, and using
stepwise refinement, decomposes it into sub-components that exist
at lower levels of abstraction
19. Contd…
• A bottom-up approach starts with primitive components that provide
foundational services and using layers of abstraction builds the
functionality the system needs until the entire system has been
realized
• A top-down approach is typically more useful in situations only if the
specifications of the system are clearly known and application is
being built from scratch (water fall model)
• A bottom-up approach is thus more useful in situations in which a
new application is being created from an existing (legacy) system
(Iterative enhancement model)
20. Module
• It is a logically separable part of a program
• It is a program unit that is discreet and identifiable with
respect to compiling and loading
• Can be a function, a procedure, a process or a package
22. Coupling
• “how strongly” different modules are interconnected
• By definition,
“Coupling between modules is the strength of
interconnections between modules or a measure of
interdependence among modules”
• An abstract concept and is not easily quantifiable
• Highly coupled – strong interconnections
Loosely coupled – weak interconnections
23. Contd…
• Factors influencing coupling are :
type of connection between modules
the complexity of the interface
the type of information flow between
modules.
• Minimize the number of interfaces per module and the
complexity of each interface
• Depends up on the type of information flow, coupling varies
Data Flow – Minimal
Hybrid – Maximum (data and control)
25. Cohesion
• Cohesion is the concept that tries to capture intra-module bonds
• Shows how closely the elements of a module are related to each other.
• Shows how tightly bound the internal elements of the module are to one
another
• Usually, greater the cohesion of each module in the system, the lower the
coupling between module is.
• cohesion: how focused is an object (or module, or function, or package,
etc.) on a particular task or concern
– a highly cohesive object has attributes and behavior that relate only
to one task or concern
26. Levels of cohesion
• Coincidental Low
• Logical
• Temporal
• Procedural
• Communicational
• Sequential
• Functional
High
27. Details…
• Coincidental Cohesion occurs when there is no meaningful
relationship among the elements of a module.
• Logical Cohesion: if there is some logical relationship between the
elements of a module (input and output modules)
• Temporal cohesion: same as logical cohesion, except that the
elements are also related in time and are executed together
(initialization, clean-up, termination)
• Procedurally cohesive module contains elements that belong to a
common procedural unit (loop or a sequence of decision
statements)
28. Contd…
• Communicational cohesion has elements that are related by a
reference to the same input or output data (may perform more
than one function)
• Sequential cohesion occurs when output of one forms the input
to another.
• In functional cohesion all the elements of the module are
related to performing a single function (single function or single
goal – “compute square root” or “sort the array”)
29. How does one determine the cohesion level
of a module?
• Compound sentence : sequential or communicational
cohesion
• “first”, “next”, “when”, “after” : sequential or temporal
• “edit all data” : logical cohesion
• “initialize” or “cleanup” : temporal cohesion
30. We aim to create systems out of highly cohesive,
loosely coupled components…
32. Structure Charts
A structure chart is a graphical representation of a system's structure; in
particular, its modules and their interconnections
Each module is represented by a box
If A uses B, then an arrow is drawn from A to B
B is called the subordinate of A
A is called the superordinate of B
An arrow is labeled with the parameters received by B as input and the
parameters returned by B as output
Arrows indicate the direction in which parameters flow
Parameters can be data (shown as unfilled circles at the tail of a label) or
control information (filled circles at the tail)
35. Types of Modules
• Input: A module that only produces information that is
passed to its superordinate
• Output: A module that only receives information from its
superordinate for output to a device
• Transform: A module that converts data from one format
into another format, possibly generating entirely new
information.
• Coordinator: A module that manages the flow of data to and
from different subordinates
• Composite: Modules that combine one or more of the above
styles are composite modules
37. Design specification
• A designer must also create a textual specification for each
module that appears in the system's structure
• Design specification contains
1. Problem Specification
2. Major Data Structures
3. Modules and their Specifications
4. Design Decisions
38. Structured Design Methodology
The structured design methodology
(SDM) views a system as a transformation function
that transforms specified inputs into specified
outputs.
39. Factoring
• A key concept of SDM is factoring
• Factoring is the process of decomposing a
module so that the bulk of its work is done by its
subordinates
• SDM attempts to achieve a structure that is close
to being completely factored
40. SDM Strategy
• The overall strategy of SDM is to identify the input and output streams of the
system and the primary transformations that have to be performed to produce
the output
• High-level modules are then created to perform these major activities, which
are later refined (factored)
• There are four major steps in applying this strategy
– Restate the problem as a data flow diagram
– Identify the input and output data elements
– Perform first-level factoring
– Perform additional factoring on input, output and transform branches
created in the previous step
41. Step 1: Restate the problem as a
data flow diagram
• DFD represents how the data will flow in the system when it
is built.
• Data flow diagrams during design are focused on the solution
domain
– What are the inputs and outputs of our system (as
opposed to the inputs and outputs of the problem
domain)?
– What are the central transformations?
44. Step 2: Identify the input and output data
elements
• What we are looking for is the most abstract input elements (MAI) and
the most abstract output elements (MAO)
• The MAI elements are found by going as far as possible from physical
inputs without losing the incoming nature of the data element
• The MAO elements are found by identifying the data elements most
removed from the physical outputs without losing the outgoing nature
of the data element
45. Step 3: First-Level Factoring
• First-level factoring is the first step towards converting the DFD into a
structure chart
• You start by creating a module that represents the software system (the
main module)
– The main module acts as a coordinator module
• For each MAI data element, specify a subordinate input module that
delivers these items to the main module
• For each MAO data element, specify an output module
• For each central transform, specify a subordinate transform module
– The inputs and outputs of these transform modules are specified in the
DFD
48. Step 4: Perform Additional Factoring
• Now stepwise refinement is used to specify the sub-
modules required to realize the functionality of the
modules created in the previous step
• For each input module:
– assume that it is in the main module
– add input modules that takes its MAI data element closer to
the raw input
– add transform modules in order to transform the raw input
into the desired MAI data element
50. Contd…
• Output modules are treated in a similar fashion,
this time working from MAO data elements to
the raw output of the system
• Central transforms are also factored in a
stepwise manner until you have specified atomic
modules that can be implemented directly
52. SDM Wrap-Up
• Each new module produced in step 4 can then
be examined to see if additional factoring is
necessary
53. Design Heuristics
The strategy requires the designer to exercise sound judgment
and common sense
Cohesion and coupling should be the primary guiding factors
A very high fan-out is not very desirable (control and
coordinate more modules)
Fan-in should be maximized
Scope of effect of a decision should be subset of the scope of
control.
54. Verification
• Designs should be checked for internal consistency and for
completeness with respect to the SRS
• If a formal design notation is used, then tools may be able to
perform some of these checks (Automated Cross Checking)
• Otherwise, design reviews (as part of your inspection process)
are required to ensure that the finished design is of high
quality
55. Design Reviews
• To ensure “quality” of the design
• Aim of design reviews – detecting errors in design
• Review team – a member of both the system design team and the
detailed design team, the author of the requirements document, the
author responsible for maintaining the design document, and an
independent software quality engineer.
56. Metrics
• To provide quantitative data to the management process
• Cost and schedule metrics are needed for tracking the progress
of the project
• Size is always a product metric of interest
• Size: Number of Modules x Average LOC expected per module
– Or you can generate LOC estimates for each individual
module
57. Metrics
• Quality metrics
Simplicity – most important design quality attribute
• Complexity metrics
– Network Metrics
– Stability Metrics
– Information Flow Metrics
58. Network Metrics
• Network metrics focus on the structure chart of a system
• They attempt to define how “good” the structure or network is in an
effort to quantify the complexity of the call graph
• The simplest structure occurs if the call graph is a tree.
– As a result, the graph impurity (deviation of the tree) is defined as
nodes - edges - 1
– In the case of a tree, this metric produces the result zero since
there is always one more node in a tree than edges
– This metric is designed to make you examine nodes that have high
coupling and see if there are ways to reduce this coupling
59. Stability Metrics
• Stability of a design is a metric that tries to quantify the
resistance of a design to the potential ripple effects that are
caused by changes in modules
• The creators of this metric argue that the higher the stability of a
design, the easier it is to maintain the resulting system
• This provides a stability value for each particular module
• In essence, the lower the amount of coupling between modules,
the higher the stability of the overall system
60. Information Flow Metrics
• Information flow metrics attempt to define the
complexity of a system in terms of the total
amount of information flowing through its
modules
• Jalote discusses two information flow metrics
and how they can be used to classify modules
61. Approach 1
– A module's complexity depends on its intramodule complexity and its
intermodule complexity
– intramodule complexity is approximated by the (estimated) size of the module in
lines of code
– intermodule complexity is determined by the total amount of information
(abstract data elements) flowing into a module (inflow) and the total amount of
information flowing out of a module (outflow)
– The module design complexity Dc is defined as Dc = size * (inflow*outflow)2
– The term (inflow*outflow)2 refers to the total number of input and output
combinations, and this number is squared since the interconnections between
modules are considered more important to determining the complexity of a
module than its code size
62. Approach 2
– Approach 1 depends largely on the amount of information flowing in and out of
the module
– Approach 2 is a variant that also considers the number of modules connected
to a particular module; in addition, the code size of a module is considered
insignificant with respect to a module's complexity
– The module design complexity Dc is defined as Dc = (fan_in * fan_out) +
(inflow*outflow)
– fan_in above refers to the number of modules that call this module, fan_out is
the number of modules called by this module
63. Classification
– Neither of these metrics is any good, unless they can tell us when to
consider a module “too complex”
– To this end, an approach was developed to compare a module's complexity
against the complexity of the other modules in its system
– avg_complexity is defined as the average complexity of the modules in the
current design
– std_deviation is defined as the standard deviation in the design complexity
of the modules in the current design
– A module can be classified as error prone, complex, or normal using the
following conditions
Dc is the complexity of a particular module
A module is error prone if Dc > avg_complexity + std_deviation
A module is complex if avg_complexity < Dc < avg_complexity +
std_deviation
Otherwise a module is considered normal
64. Software Architecture
Desired properties of an architectural design
• Structural Properties
– This defines the components of a system and the
manner in which these interact with one
another.
• Extra Functional Properties
–This addresses how the design
architecture achieves requirements for
performance, reliability and security
• Families of Related Systems
– The ability to reuse architectural building blocks
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