Release Candidate 2025.1-RC5
Pre-release
Table of Contents
Abbreviations used below:
- LG: Learning goal
- LGI: Learning goal item (bullet item within LG)
- RC: Release candidate
Changes in 2025.1
The baseline for the following comparison is the latest release of 2023.1
The list of fixed/resolved issues can be found in the Kanban board on GitHub.
For 2025.1, we have resolved more than 60 issues, comments and problems in both the English (EN) and German (DE) version.
Very Short Summary
- The structure of the curriculum has been aligned with the architectural tasks (clarify requirements, design the system, communicate, evaluate/analyze)
- As a consequence, many learning goals have been moved.
- Examination-relevant content largely remained unchanged.
- Many LGs got new numbers, but the old numbers are kept in the title to facilitate migration.
Summary
The new version is structured along the fundamental activities and responsibilities of software architecture as a role, preceeded by some basic concepts:
| Section | Content |
|---|---|
| 1 | Basic concepts |
| 2 | Clarifying stakeholder requirements and constraints |
| 3 | Designing and developing software architectures, taking structural and conceptual decisions |
| 4 | Communicating and documenting the architecture for various stakeholders |
| 5 | Analyzing and assessing software architectures |
| 6 | Examples of software architectures |
The following topics have been removed:
- Software Lifecycle
- Differentiate types of IT systems
- Expect-errors principle
- SOLID principles (except Open/Closed and Dependency-Inversion)
The following topics are new in V2025:
- Data models
- Stakeholder concerns + interviews
- Static and dynamic coupling
- Efferent and afferent coupling
- SysML, C4
- Deal with unexpected situations
- Reasons for architecture analysis
- Evaluate conformance to architectural decisions
The mapping of V2023 to V2025 is provided in graphical format for your convenience:
Detailed Change History
In case you are curious, take a look at the change history.
Work relevant for 2025.1 has begun October 2023, and is documented by detailed commits to the repository.
Count commits across all branches:
git rev-list --all --count --since="23 October 2023"
