CPSC 7314 - Integrated Software System Engineering

Three hours lecture. Three credit hours.

This course covers the integration related issues of modern software engineering. Topics include but not limited to specification of use cases for a distributed application; design and development concerns such as fault tolerance, reliability, security, interoperability; how these concerns influence the placement of functionality in the distributed environment—subsystem structuring criteria; design that allows upgrades and modifications of installed distributed systems; representation of timing sequences; performance analysis of concurrent and distributed systems; design for testability; distributed architecture design patterns; other issues about testing distributed systems.

Prerequisites: CPSC 4373/5373.