Software Architectures for Embedded Systems and Real-Time Systems - Face-to-Face Training

Software Architectures for Embedded Systems and Real-Time Systems - Face-to-Face Training

Content

Software Architectures: Introduction and Terminology

• Definition of terms
• Benefits and objectives of a software architecture
• Elements of a software architecture
• Relation to the development process
• Role and responsibilities of the software architect
• Practical tips

Software Architecture Development Procedures

• Different software architecture development procedures: hierarchial, iterative, incremental, agile, model-driven, domain-driven
• Dependencies and relations of the different procedures
• Presentation of a typical procedure

The Role of a Software Architect

• Characteristics and responsibilities of the software architect
• Software architect teams
• Collaboration with other roles

Software Architecture Development: Principles and Preconditions

• Typical development scenarios under favorable and unfavorable conditions
• Requirements: functional and non-functional
• Influencing factors for software architectures
• Factor analysis demonstration
• Risk management

Notation and Documentation of Software Architectures with the UML (Unified Modeling Language)

• Static and dynamic views
• Quality features of the software architecture documentation
• Documentation and communication of software architectures for the stakeholders
• Content and focus of documentation
• Description and communication of interfaces
• Definition and use of different architecture views
• Document-based versus model-based procedures
• Demonstration: From requirements to the software architecture model
• Exercise: Development of an embedded software architecture comprising structure and interactive behavior, based on drawn up textual requirements

Design of Software Architectures

• Functional and non-functional requirements as a basis for high-quality software architecture
• Positive and negative impact of quality requirements on the software architecture
• Impact of safety and security, reliability, portability, performance and other quality requirements on the architecture
• Project specific factors of influence on the software architecture
• Continuous refinement of the software architecture through incremental and iterative processes
• Architecture construction kit and reusability
• Basic concepts, elements, element coupling via interfaces
• Design principles
• Architecture design patterns
• Architecture guidelines
• Runtime architecture
• Architectures for multiprocessor and multicore systems
• Verification of software architectures
• Hypervisor and virtualization
• Platform independence
• Exercise: Extending the architecture with a runtime architecture

Quality Assessment and Quality Assurance of Software Architectures

• Quality models
• Relation and interdependency of quality features
• Methods to achieve the specified quality features of software systems
• Assessment of software architectures (quality and implementation)
• ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
• Practical tips for quality assessment and quality assurance
• Exercise: Quality assessment for various software architectures

Tools for Software Architects

• Modeling
• Static and dynamic analysis
• Generation
• Requirements management
• Documentation
• Version and configuration management
• Build process and build systems
• We provide you with an unbiased product overview for efficient product selection

Proven Examples of Software Architectures

• Typical software architectures for embedded systems
• Software layers, software layer models
• Practical tips

Practical Exercises in the Software Architecture Training

• From requirements to the verification and assessment of the software architecture using the example of an embedded system (electric motor control) based on real hardware
• Throughout the exercise, you will use the modeling tool 'Enterprise Architect' (Sparx Systems), or paper and pencil as an alternative

MicroConsult Plus:

• All participants have the following options to further use their exercises from this workshop as well as the solutions developed by MicroConsult:
• You take the files with you on a free USB stick provided by MicroConsult, or ...
• You e-mail the files to your account, or ...
• You get access to file download on request.
• For the measurement device application, you get the program code and a UML model as well as a UML model for the electric motor application.
• You get a tool and software component overview for the development of embedded software architectures
• You also get an embedded software architecture checklist summarizing all key topics. You can adapt this checklist to your project requirements.
• You get helpful notation overviews for UML (Unified Modeling Language) and SysML (Systems Modeling Language).