A comprehensive treatment of the analysis and design portions of the software development lifecycle and applicable contexts, across various methodologies and levels of abstraction.
Software System Analysis and Design Overview
Analysis and design as concepts and as concrete activities of the software development process; difference between analysis and design; analysis- and design-related contextual dimensions such as level of detail, structural vs. behavioural view, methodology and development lifecycle stage.
Software System Analysis
Functional and non-functional requirement gathering; refinement of requirements; actors and use cases; detailed behavioural and structural analysis; analysis patterns; diagram types for analysis.
Software System Design
Architecture-level design (Rational Unified Process with 4+1 views, Attribute-Driven Design); detailed design constructs; detailed design optimisation and trade-offs; design pattern types (instance vs. all-pervasive); well known design pattern sets such as GRASP and GoF; diagram types for design; data persistence and object-relational mapping.
Design quality
Quality predictors in software design and their relationship to system qualities.
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|---|---|
| Assessment Breakdown | % |
| Other Assessment(s) | 50 |
| Formal Examination | 50 |