Tutorial Summary for Designing Software Architectures Using ADD 3.0

Attribute Driven Design (ADD)--a method for designing software architectures--was originally developed by the Software Engineering Institute in 2000.ADD 2.0, was published in 2006. Recently we have made some significant changes to ADD to make it easier to enact, to make it better aligned with the way that software is developed today, and hence to improve its adoption by the software architecture practitioner community.In this tutorial we will introduce ADD 3.0 and explain the key changes that we made to its previous versions. We will also present a detailed real-world case study, in the domain of big data, and walk the participants through a few iterations of the method showing how the steps are performed in practice. Then the participants will have the opportunity to enact several iterations of the method on their own. We will place particular emphasis on the design decisions that are made in the different design iterations: how different concepts are used in different iterations, and how these decisions are made more confidently through the use of a reusable catalog of design concepts, how these are documented, and how these can be analyzed within the design process.