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January 28, 2025
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Instructor: Kenneth W T Leung
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Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is the process of developing software through planning, requirement analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. This course focuses on the requirement analysis phase of SDLC, and you will learn how to use UML models to capture the system requirements and to facilitate communication between client/users and developers. UML is a general purpose visual modeling language for systems. It can be used to highlight different aspects of the system that are of interest to different stakeholders. Data requirements are captured in the domain model, which describes the important concepts of the application domain as classes, associations between them and constraints on them. Functional requirements are captured in the use-case model to describe the interactions between the system and its environment (users, other systems).
UML incorporates the current best practices in Object-Oriented modeling techniques. Basic object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts are required to attempt the course. It is recommended to take the courses in the order they are listed, as they progressively develop techniques and concepts about software engineering, but it is not a hard requirement.
Welcome to the first module of this course! In this module, you will learn: (1) Developing large software systems is a complex process.(2) How to deal with the complexity of software development.(3) What is software engineering.
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In this module, you will learn: (1) What is UML. (2) How to model a software system as a collection of collaborating objects. (3) The basic modeling components (Class, Association and Aggregation/Composition) of UML class diagrams.
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In this module, you will learn: (1) The basic modeling components (Association Class, Inheritance and Other Constraints) of UML Class Diagram.
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In this module, you will learn: (1) What is requirements capture and its role in the software development process. (2) How to capture data requirements in a domain model. (3) How to evaluate attributes, classes, and associations in a domain model.
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In this module, you will learn: (1) How to capture functional requirements in a use case model. (2) How to evaluate use cases in a use case model.
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In this module, you will learn: (1) How to write use case specification to describe the behavior within a use case.
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In this module, you will learn: (1) How to capture non-functional requirements. (2) How to validate system requirements.
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Reviewed on Apr 1, 2023
Easy to understand and good explanation. I feel that the assessment should have included modeling so that we would get a better learning experience.
Reviewed on Feb 20, 2023
Good course but if I didn't already know this stuff it would have taken 2 weeks.
Reviewed on Oct 27, 2024
I like it but sometimes the subtitles are wrong due to difficult pronunciation of some words by the teacher.
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