General provisions

The course is included in the following degree programme:

• Bachelor’s programme in Information Systems, specialisation software engineering, 180 credits.

Is also given as a freestanding course

Entry requirements

30 credits in software engineering or equivalent

Learning outcomes

Regarding knowledge and understanding be expected the students be able to on completion of the course:

• Account for basic design principles, architectural solutions and design patterns including their possibilities and limitations

Regarding skills and abilities the student is expected to be able to on completion of the course:

• Apply design principles on architectural level and system level

• Use design pattern to create object-oriented programmes that are simple to maintain and test

Regarding judgement and approach the student is expected to be able to on completion of the course:

• Evaluate system and architectural design based on design principles

Content

Software development often takes place in an existing information infrastructure. A central design issue is thereby, how different systems should interact with one another. In the course, two levels of system design are studied: 1) Architectural level that treats design of interaction between system. 2) System level that treats good properties in the internal design of a system. The course also covers design principles that can be applied on both architecture and system level.

Component 1: Design patterns, 3 credits

The component covers how object-oriented programmes are created that are simple to maintain and test by studying design principles such as Single responsibility principle, Open-closed principle and Dependency inversion principle that we apply through commonly occurring design patterns such as State, Observer and Command.

Component 2: Architecture, 2 credits

The component covers how systems and subsystems can be designed to be able to interact with one another and be simple to maintain at the same time and test. We build further on the general design principles and look closer on various types of software architectures with special focus on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Component 3: Application, 2.5 credits

The component applies and deepens how general design principles can be used at design on system level and/or architectural level.

Instruction

The course is given in the form of lectures and practical assignments.

Assessment

The components are examined through written assignments.

For the grade Pass in the whole course, it is required that all components are passed. For the grade Pass with distinction it is furthermore required that at least two components are passed with distinction.

Other regulations

The course is given on Campus Gotland and as a distance course.