Design Activities

System design

Technical architecture

Application architecture

Weak coupling- information hiding

Client-server versus peer-to-peer

Layered Construction

Metrics about structure and size of a class

Tree impurity

Yin and Winchester design measure

Shepperd's refinement of the Henry-Kafura measure

Fenton's global coupling measure

Application architecture - frameworks

CommonPoint (Taligent)

The Model-View-Controller framework

Application architecture - design patterns

Design patterns

Design patterns Vs Frameworks

Representing associations

Representing Constraints

Representing Inheritance

Derived data policy

Add redundant associations

Eliminate associations

Rearrange computation

Persistence

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