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This free course, Approaches to software development, presents an engineering approach to the development of software systems – a software engineering approach. The course pays particular attention to issues of software quality, in terms of both product (what is built) and process (how we build it).

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Course learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:
  • describe the essential characteristics, and identify, using examples, the connections between the characteristics of a good software system
  • describe the elements of a basic software development process and illustrate the variety of different life cycles
  • understand the motivation for, and best practices of, an agile approach to software development
  • explain the benefits of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) as a standard notation for modelling
  • identify the different kinds of the model used in the development of software and describe the relationship between models, viewpoints and software development.

Course content

  • Introduction 00:15:00
  • Learning outcomes 00:10:00
    • Software and software engineering 00:10:00
    • What is a system? 00:10:00
    • Definition 00:10:00
    • Software systems 00:15:00
    • Viewpoints 00:10:00
    • System boundaries 00:15:00
    • The nature of software 00:15:00
    • Characteristics of a software system 00:20:00
    • Maintainability and other software problems 00:10:00
    • Legacy systems 00:15:00
    • Unsuccessful software systems 00:20:00
    • Divide and conquer? 00:15:00
    • Problem and solution 00:15:00
    • Modules and interfaces 00:20:00
    • Abstraction 00:10:00
    • Coupling and cohesion 00:25:00
    • Architecture 00:15:00
    • Layers 00:15:00
    • Components 00:10:00
    • Services 00:20:00
    • Summary of Section 1 00:15:00
    • An introduction to software development 00:05:00
    • Software development as an engineering activity 00:15:00
    • The role of development processes 00:15:00
    • Typical technical activities for the development of software 00:15:00
    • An overall process model 00:25:00
    • Agile development 00:20:00
    • Choosing an appropriate process 00:10:00
    • Choosing the appropriate level of formality 00:20:00
    • Dealing with risk 00:20:00
    • Traceability 00:30:00
    • Project notebook 00:45:00
    • Summary of Section 2 00:15:00
    • Modelling in software development 00:05:00
    • Importance of modelling 00:15:00
    • Agile modelling 00:10:00
    • A standard notation 00:20:00
    • Models illustrate points of view 00:20:00
    • Introducing the Unified Process 00:15:00
    • Views in the UP 00:15:00
    • Agile UP 00:10:00
    • Activities and artefacts in the development process 00:15:00
    • Domain modelling 00:15:00
    • Requirements 00:10:00
    • Analysis 00:10:00
    • Design 00:15:00
    • Implementation 00:10:00
    • Testing 00:10:00
    • Deployment 00:20:00
    • Summary of Section 3 00:15:00
    • Conclusion 00:15:00

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