SG - Notes

This Study Guide collects a set of technical notes and presentations we'll use in Software Modeling and Analysis. Many of these will be particularly important as you begin working on your first Operational Concept Document (OCD).

Key Architecture Ideas and Materials
Presentations	Technical Notes
Software Architecture Definitions, important properties, concepts, organizing principles, discusses Operational Concept Documents (OCDs) Software Product Model Diagram illustrating Application-side and Solution-side Software Artefacts. UML Notation Presents Universal Modeling Language (UML): Activity, Package, class, sequence, state diagrams, & structure charts. SG - Operational Concept Document (OCD) An outline, usage samples, diagram samples, issues samples, document samples. Architectural Concept Survival Guide Some "Do"s and some "Don't"s for writing OCDs. Packages Defines structure for packages, motivates their use. Project Center Use Cases Good example of analysis of application uses - a core part of an OCD.	What is a program? Software Size Matters! Package Structure Matters! Power and Perils of Sharing Robustness Top-Down Design Bottom-Up Design Incremental Development Partition: Package, Process, & Machine Delegation and Events Asynchronous Messaging Components are System Building Blocks