Approaches to software development

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Approaches to software development provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 9 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

Overview
  • 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...

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • 1 Software and software engineering
    • 1 Software and software engineering
    • 1.1 What is a system?
    • Definition
    • Software systems
    • Viewpoints
    • System boundaries
    • 1.2 The nature of software
    • 1.3 Characteristics of a software system
    • 1.4 Maintainability and other software problems
    • Legacy systems
    • Unsuccessful software systems
    • 1.5 Divide and conquer?
    • Problem and solution
    • Modules and interfaces
    • Abstraction
    • Coupling and cohesion
    • 1.6 Architecture
    • Layers
    • Components
    • Services
    • 1.7 Summary of Section 1
    • 2 An introduction to software development
    • 2 An introduction to software development
    • 2.1 Software development as an engineering activity
    • 2.2 The role of development processes
    • Typical technical activities for the development of software
    • An overall process model
    • Agile development
    • 2.3 Choosing an appropriate process
    • Choosing the appropriate level of formality
    • Dealing with risk
    • 2.4 Traceability
    • Project notebook
    • 2.5 Summary of Section 2
    • 3 Modelling in software development
    • 3 Modelling in software development
    • 3.1 Importance of modelling
    • Agile modelling
    • A standard notation
    • 3.2 Models illustrate points of view
    • 3.3 Introducing the Unified Process
    • Views in the UP
    • Agile UP
    • 3.4 Activities and artefacts in the development process
    • Domain modelling
    • Requirements
    • Analysis
    • Design
    • Implementation
    • Testing
    • Deployment
    • 3.5 Summary of Section 3
    • Conclusion
    • References
    • Acknowledgements