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1 CS603 Lecture 1Design What and Why / Design Objectives / Software Design Complexity / Software Design / Why is Software De...
2 CS603 Lecture 2Characteristics of Software / Benefits of Good Design / A Generic Design Process / Inputs to the design process / Des...
3 CS603 Lecture 3Coupling Example / Cohesion / Relationship between Coupling / Software Design Strategies / Object-Orientation Basic C...
4 CS603 Lecture 4Object-Orientation Basic Concepts / Relationships Basic Concepts
5 CS603 Lecture 5Object Lifetime and Visibility / Object to Relational Mapping
6 CS603 Lecture 6OOP Inheritance and Polymorphism / OOP Object Creation and Factory Method / OOP The Magic Behind Polymorphism / OOP I...
7 CS603 Lecture 7OOP Implementing Uni-directional Associations / OOP Implementing Bi-directional Associations / SOLID Design Principle...
8 CS603 Lecture 8SOLID Design Principles
9 CS603 Lecture 9Good OO design principles / Action-Oriented Design in the Disguise of object-
10 CS603 Lecture 10Handling Poorly Distributed System Intelligence / Modelling Policy / Handling roles - Player-Role Pattern / Handling...
11 CS603 Lecture 11Reflexive Associations / Design Patterns Introduction / Elements of design patterns
12 CS603 Lecture 12Categories of Design Patterns / Benefits and drawbacks of design patterns / Singleton Design Pattern / Strategy Desig...
13 CS603 Lecture 13Façade Design Pattern / Modeling Sate Machine / State Design Pattern
14 CS603 Lecture 14State Design Pattern - Example / Comparison of Strategy and State Design Patterns / Composite Design Pattern
15 CS603 Lecture 15Observer Design Pattern / Refactoring Introduction
16 CS603 Lecture 16Refactoring A simple example / Refactoring vs Rewriting and optimization / Making Refactoring Safe / Code Smells Bad...
17 CS603 Lecture 17Code Smells Dispensables / Code Smells Couplers / Refactoring The Catalog / Refactoring Extract Method / Refactoring...
18 CS603 Lecture 18Refactoring Move Method / Refactoring Replace Conditional with / Refactoring Introduce Null Object / Refactoring Exam...
19 CS603 Lecture 19Refactoring Example Part II / Refactoring Example Part III / Refactoring Example Part IV
20 CS603 Lecture 20Refactoring Example Part V / Refactoring Example Part VI
21 CS603 Lecture 21Refactoring Example Part VII / Refactoring Example Part VIII / Refactoring Example Part IX
22 CS603 Lecture 22Refactoring Managing Refactoring / Refactoring Problems with Refactoring / MVC Challenges of Interactive Application...
23 CS603 Lecture 23MVC Example Part VI / MVC Example Part VII / MVC Example Part VIII / What is software architecture? / Categories of s...
24 CS603 Lecture 24Component-and-Connector and Allocation / Quality Attributes / What should not be included in it? / Difference between...
25 CS603 Lecture 25Architectural Views / 4+1 View Model of Software Architecture / Module Structures
26 CS603 Lecture 26Component and Connector Structures / Allocation Structures / Structures and Quality Attributes / Relating Structures...
27 CS603 Lecture 27Choosing an Appropriate Structure / Architectural Patterns Overview / What makes a good architecture?
28 CS603 Lecture 28Process Recommendations / Product Recommendations
29 CS603 Lecture 29Architectural Drivers / The Architecture Meta-Frame
30 CS603 Lecture 30The Architecture Meta-Frame
31 CS603 Lecture 31Agility and Architecture Design / Key Architecture Principles / Incremental and Iterative / Baseline and Candidate...
32 CS603 Lecture 32Architecturally Significant Use / Reference Application / Software Architecture Patterns - Introduction / Difference...
33 CS603 Lecture 33Module Patterns
34 CS603 Lecture 34Module Patterns
35 CS603 Lecture 35Component-and-Connector Patterns
36 CS603 Lecture 36Component-and-Connector Patterns / Allocation Patterns - Multi-tier Pattern / Monolithic Architecture / Monolithic Ar...
37 CS603 Lecture 37Web Application Architecture Overview / Web Application Design Considerations / Web Application Frame - Introduction...
38 CS603 Lecture 38Web Application Frame - Authorization / Web Application Frame - Caching / Web Application Frame Exception Management...
39 CS603 Lecture 39Web Application Frame Page Layout / Web Application Frame Page Rendering / Web Application Frame Presentation Entity...
40 CS603 Lecture 40Web Application Frame Validation / Web Application Frame
41 CS603 Lecture 41Web Application Frame / Cloud Computing Introduction / Cloud Computing Basic Definitions / Cloud Computing Service Mo...
42 CS603 Lecture 42Cloud Computing Multitenancy / Cloud Computing Architecting in Cloud / Service-Oriented Architecture Introduction
43 CS603 Lecture 43What Makes Service-Oriented Architecture / Benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture / Challenges with Service-Orient...
44 CS603 Lecture 44Designing Polyglot Services / Stateless versus Stateful Microservices / Microservice Architecture Challenges

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