Course Material

Main book

The main book in this course is:

Nick Rozanski and Eoin Woods. Software Systems Architecture: Working with Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives. Addison-Wesley, 2012, 2nd edition.

Previous DESOSA books

A good source of inspiration can be the previous editions of this course:

  1. Arie van Deursen and Maurício Aniche and Andy Zaidman and Valentine Mairet and Sander van den Oever (editors). Delft Students on Software Architecture (DESOSA). https://delftswa.gitbooks.io/desosa-2017/, TU Delft, 2017.
  2. Arie van Deursen and Maurício Aniche and Joop Aué (editors). Delft Students on Software Architecture (DESOSA). https://delftswa.gitbooks.io/desosa2016/content/, TU Delft, 2016.
  3. Arie van Deursen and Rogier Slag (editors). Delft Students on Software Architecture (DESOSA). delftswa.github.io, TU Delft, 2015.
  1. Arie van Deursen, Alex Nederlof, and Eric Bouwers. Teaching Software Architecture: With GitHub! (blog December 2013, avandeursen.com)
  2. Arie van Deursen, Mauricio Finavaro Aniche, Joop Aué, Rogier Slag, Michael de Jong, Alex Nederlof, Eric Bouwers: A Collaborative Approach to Teaching Software Architecture. SIGCSE 2017: 591-596.
  3. Zach Holman. How GitHub uses GitHub to Build GitHub. RubyConf, September 2011.
  4. Diomides Spinellis and Georgios Gousios (editors). Beautiful Architecture: Leading Software Engineers Explain How They Think. O’Reilly Media, 2009.
  5. Amy Brown and Greg Wilson (editors). The Architecture of Open Source Applications. Volumes 1-2, 2012.
  6. Software Architecture Wikipedia page (thoughtfully and substantially edited by the IFIP Working Group on Software Architecture in 2012)
  7. Ruth Malan. Visual Software Architecting. SATURN 2017. slides (pdf), slideshare
  8. Georgios Gousios, Andy Zaidman, Margaret-Anne Storey, and Arie van Deursen. Work Practices and Challenges in Pull-Based Development: The Integrator’s Perspective. In proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2015). blog post, full paper
  9. Sven Apel, Don Batory, Christian Kästner, Gunter Saake. Feature-Oriented Software Product Lines: Concepts and Implementation. Springer-Verlag, 2013 (SpringerLink, available via TU Delft network).
  10. Iago Abal, Claus Brabrand, and Andrzej Wasowski. “42 Variability Bugs in the Linux Kernel: A Qualitative Analysis”. Automated Software Engineering, 2014. pdf
  11. David Parnas “On the design and development of program families”. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 1976. full paper (requires the university network)
  12. Axel Halin, Alexandre Nuttinck, Mathieu Acher, Xavier Devroey, Gilles Perrouin, Patrick Heymans. Yo Variability! JHipster: A Playground for Web-Apps Analyses. 11th International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems, Feb 2017, Eindhoven, Netherlands. pp.44 - 51, 2017