The way that software components — subroutines, classes, functions, etc. — are arranged, and the interactions between them, is called architecture. In this course you will study the ways these architectures are represented, both in UML and other visual tools. We will introduce the most common architectures, their qualities, and tradeoffs. We will talk about how architectures are evaluated, what makes a good architecture, and an architecture can be improved. We'll also talk about how the architecture touches on the process of software development.
This course is part of the Software Design and Architecture Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
UML Architecture Diagrams
Architectural Styles
Architecture in Practice
Capstone Challenge
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- 5 stars68.61%
- 4 stars20.96%
- 3 stars5.58%
- 2 stars2.48%
- 1 star2.35%
TOP REVIEWS FROM SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE
This course is good enough. However, It is remarkable important to support each course of this specialization up to date
This course can provide more practical assignments for students to master the concepts covered in lectures.
This course integrates the previous courses (Object oriented design and Design patterns) and applies the knowledge taught in those courses to real life problems. Highly recommended.
A great course that gives a good introduction about software architecture , architectural models , architecture evaluation and ATAM
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