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Informatics 43 Introduction to Software Engineering. Lecture 3 Duplication of course material for any commercial purpose without the explicit written permission of the professor is prohibited. Today’s lecture. Evolution Architectural styles Principles of software engineering.
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Informatics 43Introduction to Software Engineering Lecture 3 Duplication of course material for any commercial purpose without the explicit written permission of the professor is prohibited.
Today’s lecture • Evolution • Architectural styles • Principles of software engineering
Today’s lecture • Evolution • Architectural styles • Principles of software engineering
Facebook (2005) From: http://mashable.com/2011/09/22/facebook-profile-evolution/
Facebook evolution • User interface • http://www.grosocial.com/blogposts/Evolution-Facebook-Features • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl7igMfeOvo • Architecture • http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Facebook-Software-Stack • http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Evolution-of-Code-Design-at-Facebook
Airplane cockpit (Boeing 787) From: http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/2012_q1/3/
Evolution • Essential part of software development • Must be accommodated as much as possible • Must be planned as much as possible
Today’s lecture • Evolution • Architectural styles • Principles of software engineering
Defining software architecture • A software system’s architecture is the set of principal design decisions about the system • Software architecture is the blueprint for a software system’s construction and evolution • Design decisions encompass every facet of the system under development • structure • behavior • interaction • non-functional properties
“Principal” • “Principal” implies a degree of importance that grants a design decision “architectural status” • it implies that not all design decisions are architectural • that is, they do not necessarily impact a system’s architecture • How one defines “principal” will depend on what the stakeholders define as the system goals
Software architecture’s elements • A software system’s architecture typically is not (and should not be) a uniform monolith • A software system’s architecture should be a composition and interplay of different elements • processing • data, also referred as information or state • interaction
Components • Elements that encapsulate processing and data in a system’s architecture are referred to as software components • A software component is an architectural entity that • encapsulates a subset of the system’s functionality and/or data • restricts access to that subset via an explicitly defined interface • has explicitly defined dependencies on its required execution context • Components typically provide application-specific services
Connectors • In complex systems interaction may become more important and challenging than the functionality of the individual components • A software connector is an architectural building block tasked with effecting and regulating interactions among components • In many software systems connectors are usually simple procedure calls or shared data accesses • much more sophisticated and complex connectors are possible • Connectors typically provide application-independent interaction facilities
Examples of connectors • Procedure call connectors • Shared memory connectors • Message passing connectors • Streaming connectors • Distribution connectors • Wrapper/adaptor connectors
Configuration • Components and connectors are composed in a specific way in a given system’s architecture to accomplish that system’s objective • An architectural configuration, or topology, is a set of specific associations between the components and connectors of a software system’s architecture
Example configuration procedure call procedure call procedure call ship course GPS unit ship radar
Architectural style • Certain design choices regularly result in solutions with superior properties • compared to other possible alternatives, solutions such as this are more elegant, effective, efficient, dependable, evolvable, scalable, and so on • An architectural style is a named collection of architectural design decisions that • are applicable in a given development context • constrain architectural design decisions that are specific to a particular system within that context • elicit beneficial qualities in each resulting system
Style 1: object-oriented procedure call procedure call procedure call ship course GPS unit ship radar
Style 2: model-view-controller procedure call procedure call procedure call teller rules back account
Style 3: client-server remote call remote call remote call game client 2 game client 1 game client 3 game server
Style 4: blackboard data access viewer autosave spell checker document
Style 5: peer-to-peer skype 1 stream stream skype 2 skype 3 stream
Style 6: pipe-and-filter print records sort remove duplicates stream stream
Style 7: pub-sub trader 1 trader 3 trader 2 remote call remote call remote call stream stock market
Mixing styles is often necessary trader 1 trader 3 trader 2 stream remote call remote call remote call procedure call procedure call procedure call stock market server purchasing rules stock database
Mixing styles of often necessary spotify master remote call spotify server stream stream stream stream spotifyclient spotifyclient spotifyclient
Back to evolution • Essential part of software development • Must be accommodated as much as possible • Must be planned as much as possible
Accommodating change procedure call procedure call procedure call teller rules back account New overdraft rule?
Accommodating change skype 1 stream stream skype 2 skype 3 stream Another user?
Accommodating change? list records sort remove duplicates stream stream Only records namesstarting with a letter from the first half of the alphabet?
Accommodating change trader 1 trader 3 trader 2 stream remote call remote call remote call procedure call procedure call procedure call stock market server purchasing rules stock database Another stock?
Accommodating change trader 1 trader 3 trader 2 stream remote call remote call remote call procedure call procedure call procedure call stock market server purchasing rules stock database Another trader?
Architectural evolution • When a system evolves, ideally its prescriptive architecture is modified first • In practice, the system – and thus its descriptive architecture – is often directly modified • This happens because of • developer sloppiness • perception of short deadlines which prevent thinking through and documenting • lack of documented prescriptive architecture • need or desire for code optimizations • inadequate techniques or tool support
Today’s lecture • Evolution • Architectural styles • Principles of software engineering
Recurring, fundamental principles • Rigor and formality • Separation of concerns • modularity • abstraction • Anticipation of change • Generality • Incrementality