Email (Top)

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Review (Top)

1. You may want to refresh you memory on some of the concepts that were explored in IT532 by looking at the following summary pages:
   • System Summary   (http://www4.desales.edu/~dlm1/it532/class01/summary.html)
   • Event Summary   (http://www4.desales.edu/~dlm1/it532/class01/summary.html)
   • Requirement Summary   (http://www4.desales.edu/~dlm1/it532/class01/summary.html)
   • Object Summary   (http://www4.desales.edu/~dlm1/it532/class07/summary.html)

2. Refresh you memory on UML object models by studying the following model that summarizes the relationships between some of the requirements concepts that were studied in IT532:
   

Readings (Top)

1. Read the following in the Documenting Software Architectures text:
   • Prologue: Software Architectures and Documentation

   This reading is related to the topics covered in the first class.

2. Read the following in the Documenting Software Architectures text:
   • Part I: Software Architecture Viewtypes and Styles
   • Chapter 1: The Module Viewtype
   • Chapter 2: Styles of the Module Viewtype

   These readings are related to the topics that will be covered in the second class.

3. Read the following web page:
   • http://www.sei.cmu.edu/architecture/definitions.html

   How does this page relate to the "Coming to Terms" sidebar in the text Prologue?

4. Read the following web pages:
   • http://www.bredemeyer.com/whatis.htm
   • http://www.bredemeyer.com/howto.htm

Problems (Top)

1. Do Discussion Question 4 from the Prologue in the Documenting Software Architectures text.