Put students in the role of a software architect. Each case presents a system-level situation in which an architectural approach must be selected based on factors such as scalability, maintainability, communication, deployment, and system complexity.

Students evaluate the situation, weigh architectural trade-offs, and defend the approach they believe best fits the project’s needs.

Students practice:

Evaluating architectural alternatives
Connecting architecture to system requirements
Analyzing trade-offs
Recognizing architectural consequences
Defending an architectural decision

Suitable for undergraduate Software Architecture and Software Engineering courses.

No programming implementation is required. The emphasis is on architectural judgment and trade-off analysis.