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COMS W4156: Advanced Software Engineering

COMS W4156: Advanced Software Engineering. Prof. Gail Kaiser Kaiser+4156@cs.columbia.edu https://ase.cs.columbia.edu/. Topics covered in this lecture. General Design Goals Design Patterns. Design Goals. Design Goals. Within a class (or component) High Cohesion Completeness Convenience

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COMS W4156: Advanced Software Engineering

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  1. COMS W4156: Advanced Software Engineering Prof. Gail Kaiser Kaiser+4156@cs.columbia.eduhttps://ase.cs.columbia.edu/ COMS W4156

  2. Topics covered in this lecture • General Design Goals • Design Patterns COMS W4156

  3. Design Goals COMS W4156

  4. Design Goals • Within a class (or component) • High Cohesion • Completeness • Convenience • Clarity • Consistency • Across classes (or components) • Low Coupling COMS W4156

  5. Cohesion and Coupling • Cohesion is a property or characteristic of an individual unit • Coupling is a property of a collection of units • High cohesion GOOD, high coupling BAD • Design for change: • Reduce interdependency (coupling): You don't want a change in one unit to ripple throughout your system • Group functionality (cohesion): Easier to find things, intuitive metaphor aids understanding COMS W4156

  6. Cohesion • The measure of strength of the association of elements within a unit • Cohesion scale: • Functional cohesion (strongest, most desirable) • Sequential cohesion • Communicational cohesion • Procedural cohesion • Temporal cohesion • Logical cohesion • Coincidental cohesion (weakest, undesirable) COMS W4156

  7. Cohesion • Coincidental cohesion - elements have no meaningful relationship to one another • Logical cohesion - elements perform similar activities, but the activities to be executed are chosen from outside the unit • Temporal cohesion - elements are related in time (all should be done together) COMS W4156

  8. Cohesion • Communicational cohesion - elements perform different functions, but each function references the same input or output information • Sequential (or informational) cohesion - elements are related such that output data from one serves as input data to the next • Functional cohesion - elements contribute to a single, well-defined task COMS W4156

  9. Coupling • A measure of the interdependence of one software unit to another • Coupling scale • Content coupling (worst) • Common coupling • Control coupling • Stamp coupling • Data coupling (best / minimal needed coupling) • No direct coupling COMS W4156

  10. Coupling • No Direct Coupling - Independent • Data Coupling - Communicate by passing parameters • Stamp Coupling - Communicate via a passed data structure that contains more information than necessary for the two units to perform their functions COMS W4156

  11. Coupling • Control Coupling - Communicate using at least one "control flag" • Common Coupling - Share the same global data area • Content Coupling – • One unit changes a statement in another (usually applicable only to interpreted languages) • One unit references or alters data contained inside another • One unit branches into another COMS W4156

  12. Design Goals • Within a class (or component) • High Cohesion • Completeness • Convenience • Clarity • Consistency • Across classes (or components) • Low Coupling COMS W4156

  13. Naming Conventions • Most modern programming languages supply their own naming conventions (learn it, use it! – Java, C++, C#) • Otherwise, choose a scheme at design-time and stick to it at coding-time • For components, interfaces, classes, types, methods, exceptions, members, parameters, variables, … COMS W4156

  14. Separation of Concerns • “The programmer is having to do several things at the same time: • describe what is to be computed; • organize the computation sequencing into small steps; • organize memory management during the computation. • Ideally, the programmer should be able to concentrate on one of the three tasks (describing what is to be computed) without being distracted by the other two, more administrative, tasks.” [Chris Reade, Elements of Functional Programming, 1989] COMS W4156

  15. Design Patterns COMS W4156

  16. Design Pattern • A general repeatable solution to a commonly occurring problem • A description of the problem and the essence of its solution • Should be sufficiently abstract to be reused in different settings • Designed to avoid re-design • Allow developers to communicate using well known, well understood names for software interactions COMS W4156

  17. Example: Delegation • An object outwardly expresses certain behavior but in reality delegates responsibility for implementing that behavior to an associated object • Very general concept, refined in several more specific design patterns COMS W4156

  18. Example: Delegation class A { void f() { System.out.println("A: doing f()"); } void g() { System.out.println("A: doing g()"); } } class C { // delegation A a = new A(); void f() { a.f(); } void g() { a.g(); } // normal attributes X x = new X(); void y() { /* do stuff */ } } public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { C c = new C(); c.f(); c.g(); } } COMS W4156

  19. Example: Proxy Pattern • An object functions as an interface to another object • Provide a surrogate or placeholder that uses an extra level of indirection to support distributed, controlled or intelligent access to an object • In its most general form, a proxy is <something> functioning as an interface to <something else>. The <something else> could be anything: a network connection, a large object in memory, a file, or some other resource COMS W4156

  20. Non-Software Proxy Pattern COMS W4156

  21. Software Proxy Pattern COMS W4156

  22. Discussion: Proxy • Maintains a reference that lets it access the real subject • Provides an interface identical to the subject's, so that a proxy can be substituted for the real subject • Controls access to the real subject and may be responsible for creating and deleting it • May also: • Count the number of references to the real object so that it can be freed automatically when there are no more references • Load a persistent object into memory when it's first referenced • Check that the real object is locked before it is accessed to ensure that no other object can change it • … COMS W4156

  23. Types of Proxies • Remote proxies are responsible for encoding a request and its arguments and for sending the encoded request to the real subject in a different address space • Virtual proxies are placeholders for “expensive to create” or “resource hungry” objects, may cache additional information about the real subject so that they can postpone accessing it • Protection proxies check that the caller has the access permissions required to perform a request and may provide different clients with different levels of access • Others: copy-on-write, cache, synchronization, … COMS W4156

  24. Proxy Pattern Example COMS W4156

  25. Example: Façade Pattern • A single class that represents an entire subsystem or library • Provides a unified interface to a set of interfaces • May simplify by providing convenient methods for common tasks that internally involve multiple classes/methods • Often semantic wrapper of existing [legacy] objects COMS W4156

  26. Non-Software Façade Pattern COMS W4156

  27. Software Façade Pattern COMS W4156

  28. Discussion: Façade • Knows which subsystem classes are responsible for a request and delegates client requests to appropriate objects • Subsystem classes handle work assigned by façade but have no knowledge of the façade and keep no reference to it • Reduces dependencies of outside code on the inner workings of a subsystem • May reduce learning curve for novice users but be insufficient for power users COMS W4156

  29. Façade Pattern Example COMS W4156

  30. History of “Design Patterns” • (Building) Architect Christopher Alexander • A Pattern Language (1977) • Several other books • www.patternlanguage.com “Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice. “ COMS W4156

  31. History of Software Design Patterns • Arose from frameworks like Model-View-Controller (MVC) used in early OO programming, notably Smalltalk • “Gang of Four” (GoF): Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides • Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software(1995) – described 23 patterns (observed, not invented) • Many conferences, symposia, books, … COMS W4156

  32. Design Patterns “A design pattern systematically names, motivates, and explains a general design that addresses a recurring design problem in object-oriented systems. It describes the problem, the solution, when to apply the solution, and its consequences. It also gives implementation hints and examples. The solution is a general arrangement of objects and classes that solve the problem. The solution is customized and implemented to solve the problem in a particular context.” [GoF] COMS W4156

  33. Design Pattern Elements • Name • Problem description • Solution description • Not a concrete design but a template for a design solution that can be instantiated in different ways • Consequences • The results and trade-offs of applying the pattern COMS W4156

  34. Design Pattern Elements (Expanded) • name and classification • intent • also known as • differentiation • motivation • applicability • structure • participants • collaborations • consequences • implementation • sample code • known uses • related patterns COMS W4156

  35. Original Catalog of Patterns COMS W4156

  36. Creational Patterns • Concerned with instantiation • Create objects for you, rather than having you instantiate objects directly COMS W4156

  37. Creational Patterns • Factory Method – creates an instance of several derived classes • Abstract Factory – creates an instance of several families of classes • Singleton – a class of which only a single instance can exist, ensures the class has only one instance and provides a global point of access to it COMS W4156

  38. Factory Method Pattern • Define an interface for creating an object, but let subclasses decide which class to instantiate • Lets a class defer instantiation to subclasses • Common in toolkits and frameworks where library code needs to create objects of types that may be subclassed by applications using the framework • More generally, the term factory method is often used to refer to any method whose main purpose is creation of objects COMS W4156

  39. Non-Software Factory Method Pattern COMS W4156

  40. Software Factory Method Pattern COMS W4156

  41. Discussion: Factory Method • Defines a "virtual" constructor • Unlike a constructor, factory methods can have different and more descriptive names • Unlike a constructor, an existing object might be reused, instead of a new object created (object pooling) • The new operator considered harmful (make all constructors private or protected) COMS W4156

  42. Factory Method Pattern Example class Complex { public static Complex fromCartesian(double real, double imag) { return new Complex(real, imag); } public static Complex fromPolar(double rho, double theta) { return new Complex(rho * cos(theta), rho * sin(theta)); } private Complex(double a, double b) { //... } } Complex c = Complex.fromPolar(1, pi); COMS W4156

  43. Abstract Factory Pattern • Creates an instance of any of a family of classes • Provide an interface for creating families of related or dependent objects without specifying their concrete classes • Useful for families of products and to enforce families of products that must be used together • Promotes consistency among products • Example: DocumentCreator class that provides interfaces to create instances of several kinds of documents, e.g., createLetter() and createResume() COMS W4156

  44. Non-Software Abstract Factory Pattern COMS W4156

  45. Software Abstract Factory Pattern COMS W4156

  46. Discussion: Abstract Factory • Coordinates the instantiation of sets of objects that have varying implementations in such a way that only legitimate combinations of instances are possible, and hides these concrete instances behind a set of abstractions • Hides from consuming (client) objects: • The number of sets of instances supported by the system • Which set is currently in use • The concrete types that are instantiated at any point • The issue upon which the sets vary (might be determined from a config file, deployment descriptor, administrative GUI, etc.) COMS W4156

  47. Abstract Factory Pattern Example COMS W4156

  48. Singleton Pattern • Allow for only one instance of a given class to ever exist (encapsulates that the number of instances is constrained) • Provides a mechanism to obtain this instance that any client can access • Examples include objects needed for logging, communication, database access, etc. COMS W4156

  49. Non-Software Singleton Pattern COMS W4156

  50. Software Singleton Pattern COMS W4156

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