五：Designing the System

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一、What is a design?

Conceptual design/ system design
Technical design

【简答题】

• Identify the characteristics of a good design.

1. 构建独立性
2. 异常标识和处理
3. 防错和容错技术

二、Decomposition and modularity分解和模块

1.High level – lower level

（1）Modular decomposition

【选择题】

• In Modular decomposition, the construction of software is based on assigning functions to components.

（2）Data-oriented decomposition

（3）Event-oriented decomposition

（4）Outside-in design

（5）Object-oriented design

2.Modules/ components

三、Architectural styles and strategies

1.Three design levels: architecture, code design, and executable design

2.Architectural styles – description, properties, and examples

（1）Pipes and filters

（2）C/S

【选择题】

• Client/Server(C/S) is a popular （ architecture style ）

（3）Layering

【选择题】

• （ Layering ）architectures make use of abstraction，and represent the software as different levels of abstraction.

（4）Repositories仓库

【选择题】

• Designers usually adopt （ Repositories ）when designing search engines.（搜索引擎）
• Designers usually adopt （ Repositories ）when designing libraries of reusable components.（库）

（5）P2P

（6）Publish-subscribe

四、Issues in design creation

Modularity and levels of abstraction
Collaborative design
Concurrency