Software Design Notes

Chapter 1 : Introduction to design patterns

● Design Pattern represents a recurring solution to a particular problem

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Chapter 2,3 : Creational Design Patterns

● Factory Method

● Abstract Factory

● Singleton
 ● Builder

● Prototype

Chapter 4,5 : Structural Design Patterns

● Decorator

● Adapter
 ● Flyweight

● Proxy

Chapter 6 : Behavioral Design Patterns

● Iterator

● Chain of Responsibility
● Intepretor

● Command
 ● Strategy

● Observer

Chapter 7 : Nature and Role of the Design Process

 ● Model of the design process

● Designer is to specify the best solution to a problem and produce a

description of how this is to be organized.

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Chapter 8 : Software Design Process

● Factors that impact software development - Complexity, Conformity,

Changeability, Invisibility
● General model of the software design process

● Major phases of the software design process

 ● Design Methods

● Transformational model of design activity

Chapter 9 : Communicating a design solution

 ● Abstraction = features of problems , design objects and the
relationship between the two
● Representation, like design ideas, can be expressed in different
levels of abstraction
● Representation as a viewpoint

● A software design model needs to capture the static (solution

orientated) and dynamic (system orientated) aspects of software

Chapter 10 : Structured System Analysis and Design

● Structured Chart describes the functions of the sub-programs and the

runtime invocations that links them
 ● From SSA to Structured Design

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Chapter 11 : Jackson system development (JSD)
● Top Level JSD

● 2 Diagrammatical description - Entity-Structure Diagram and System

Specification Diagram
● For System Specification Diagram, there is 2 basic mechanism for
interposes communication which is
● Data flow stream - Messages are passed asynchronously Using
pipeline mechanism
● State Vector - Describes the local state of a process
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● JSD can have both data stream and state vector, Inversion can only
be done on data stream
● No real analogue in JSP
● JSD have backtracking - Helps handles unexpected events such as
premature end
Chapter 12 : Architecture and frameworks

● Software architecture is its high level design , which enables software

engineers to gain understanding
● Steps to derive software’s architecture

● Goals for software architecture - Correctness, Sufficiency and

Flexibility
● Standard software architecture - Data Flow, Independent
components, Virtual machine, Repositories, Layered
● Layered Architecture in OO form

● Framework is a collection of software artifacts that is usable by

several different applications
● Goal of framework - Manage persistence, Identify service, Pooling
and Security
● Framework Development - 2 Strategy which is
● Bottom up - start with classes in class model and look for
generalizations
● Topdown - Start with libraries and look for opportunities to use