Name: Software Architecture
Brand: University of Alberta
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 4.5 (213 reviews)

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About the Course

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. In the Capstone Project you will document a Java-based Android application with UML diagrams and analyze evaluate the application’s architecture using the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM). After completing this course, you will be able to: • Compare and contrast the components, connections, protocols, topologies, constraints, tradeoffs, and variations of different types of architectural styles used in the design of applications and systems (e.g., main program and subroutine, object-oriented, interpreters, pipes and filters, database centric, event-based). • Describe the properties of layered and n-tier architectures. • Create UML ipackage, component, and deployment diagrams to express the architectural structure of a system. • Explain the behaviour of a system using UML activity diagrams. • Document a multi-application system with a layered architecture....

Top reviews

Jun 20, 2018

Not as informative as the previous two courses in this specialization, although the links to free materials in the discussion boards helped a lot.

Jul 14, 2021

This is a very very excellent course of which I've ever taken & would like to recommend it to my friends to expore.

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By AI E

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Nov 27, 2023

Good course

By Denis

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Nov 14, 2023

good course

By Mohith S

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Nov 8, 2022

Thanks Boss

By Жеңіс К

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Sep 26, 2021

good course

By ubeimar a h

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Jun 19, 2025

Excelente

By Gopal D M

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Feb 15, 2025

very good

By TANVIRUL I 1

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Aug 23, 2021

Excellent

By Israt J S 1

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Aug 20, 2021

love this

By Nazish F

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Feb 26, 2025

awesome

By Lyra E F D

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Mar 11, 2023

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By Mohammad R B

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Aug 5, 2022

Great!

By ABDULAZIZ S S A A S S A

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Jan 29, 2023

good

By Fahim S 2

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Jun 29, 2022

Good

By SR S

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Aug 21, 2021

good

By Md. F R 1

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Aug 20, 2021

good

By SAWVIK R A 1

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Aug 20, 2021

Good

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Dec 5, 2023

By Facundo F T

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Jul 2, 2023

This course provides useful concepts on software architecture but is very superficial, is recommended for upcoming architects.

It would be a plus if focusing on real world scenarios or more advanced examples on how to use the described concepts and strategies.

In my case that I'm a beginner the course is very short. But in general, al important themes where covered, especially the Architecture Trade-off Analysis Method (ATAM) and MAPE-K structure.

By boody g

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Dec 28, 2023

great course and well designed. i wish more practical examples was explained in the videos such as the sharing app, to be taken as a case study and analyzed from scratch to define its components and understand its structure ... etc. sometimes i feel real life examples such as building and pizza ..etc are helpful to some extent, but don't accurately give the needed level of understanding.

By Diego A H M

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Sep 26, 2021

me gusto mucho la sección de estilos arquitectónicos y diagrama de componentes, no fue claro la parte de atributos de calidad y Metodo ATAM , para análisis de disemio