Calendar Description

Theory and development of software systems. This course will discuss computer ethics. Possible topics include: software development processes, requirement specification, class and scenario modeling, state modeling, UML, design patterns, traceability. Students are to complete a team project using a CASE tool.

Assumed Background

Practical experience with rudimentary software design techniques
- able to take an assignment description and identify the objects that are required
- able to apply concepts of encapsulation to organize the required objects
- able to identify opportunities for code reuse and implement them
- able to apply advanced object-oriented programming concepts, including polymorphism and generic programming

Practical experience in designing, implementing, testing and documenting small to medium size object-oriented programming assignments

Learning Objectives

Understand the theory of large scale software system development
- recognize the need for using a formal development process
- learn the phases of software development life cycle (requirements elicitation, analysis, high-level design, detailed design, implementation, testing)
- learn basics of project management

Gain the practical experience to:
- analyze a problem description for a large system
- apply each phase of the software development life cycle
- produce quality output for each phase

Prepare for a career as a software development professional:
- develop tools and strategies for working as a member of a team
- understand the Software Engineering Code of Ethics; learn to identify and analyze ethical dilemmas in a systematic fashion

Topics

Software Development Life Cycle

Requirements elicitation
- able to extract functional and non-functional requirements from a problem description
- able to construct corresponding functional model, with UML use cases and scenarios
- able to incorporate traceability into every work product

Analysis
- able to identify high level objects and categorize them into entity, boundary and control objects
- able to construct corresponding object model, including associations (inheritance, aggregation), dependencies and multiplicity, with UML class diagrams
- able to construct a dynamic model based on functional requirements, with UML sequence diagrams, state machines and/or activity diagrams

High-level system design
- understand different types of architectural styles (repository, client/server, peer-to-peer, MVC)
- able to break down analysis object model into subsystems, with UML component diagrams
- able to identify subsystem services and interfaces

Detailed object design
- understand the need for code reuse
- understand major design patterns
- able to construct detailed object model

Implementation
- understand strategies for mapping models to code and to persistent storage

Testing
- unit testing:
  - be able to create test cases for blackbox and whitebox testing
- integration testing:
  - be able to select a testing integration strategy (top-down, bottom-up, sandwich)
  - be able to create test cases using stubs and drivers
- system testing:
  - be able to create test cases based on the functional model

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