1. HENRIK BÆRBAK CHRISTENSEN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AARHUS UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE 1 Experimental Software Architecture Kandidat orientering F2011

2. HENRIK BÆRBAK CHRISTENSEN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AARHUS UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE 2 What is ESA then? Web page update pending New and small group Courses –dSoftArkATiSAPA Research interests –Software Architecture in particular –Software Engineering Special emphasis on reliability and flexibility techniques –Teaching

3. HENRIK BÆRBAK CHRISTENSEN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AARHUS UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE 3 ATiSA Advanced Topics in Software Architecture –Q3 course –Focus: Design industrial strength software architectures and systems… This spring’s case: WoW

4. HENRIK BÆRBAK CHRISTENSEN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AARHUS UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE 4 Thesis writing… Research interest at the moment Architectural Annotations Motivation: –Architectural information evaporate –Architectural information is not present in code Proposal: –Annotate the code with architectural information

5. HENRIK BÆRBAK CHRISTENSEN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AARHUS UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE 5 Thesis writing… Example from dSoftArk: Strategy pattern Can I see that in the code? No!

6. HENRIK BÆRBAK CHRISTENSEN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AARHUS UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE 6 Thesis writing… Why don’t we just write it in the code, then? Maybe like…

7. HENRIK BÆRBAK CHRISTENSEN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AARHUS UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE 7 Thesis writing… What do we gain? –Documentation right in the code –Static analysis and verification Validate proper use of patterns Generate proper UML diagrams –Dynamic analysis and verification Validate proper pattern protocol Or ?

8. HENRIK BÆRBAK CHRISTENSEN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AARHUS UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE 8 Thesis writing… Small group means limited man power  Thesis writing presently confined to working on Architectural Annotations… Contact –hbc@cs.au.dk