From project inception to coding
We focus on the often-overlooked requirements gathering activity, and a lot of software design. We examine a wide variety of requirements gathering techniques and learn how and when they should be applied. The design component is largely, though not exclusively, focused on the UML.
Qualities found in
successful software projects.
Qualities found/absent in
un-successful software projects.
The User Requirements
Document (IEEE/ANSI
830-1993)
Knowledge Elicitation
Techniques
Behavioural Requirements
Non-Behavioural Requirements
Document Validation
Introduction to Object
Orientation.
UML - The Unified Modelling Language v2.0.
Use Case Diagram and Requirements Gathering
Behavioural Diagrams
Process
Modelling
Sequence Diagrams
Collaboration Diagrams
State-based
modelling
StateChart
Activity Diagrams
Structural View
Class Diagrams
Object Diagrams
Component Diagrams
Deployment Diagrams
Software Patterns
Standard solutions to standard problems, including a
brief overview of some anti-Patterns.
Case studies are used throughout this course. One model is taken
from the banking sector, a distributed application with a centralised database.
We also examine a model of the manufacturing domain, with complex
interactions among a large number of communicating objects. Practicals focus on
developing models of both these domains.
We compare the models developed under the OO methodology with that produced by structured design. We analyse these to see the large number of advantages brought by object orientation.
Limitations: We also look at some possible limitations of Object Orientation.
UML CASE Tools:
The
wonderful and free StarUML
for student/home use.
The
compulsory Rational Rose.
The
open source ArgoUML and its related Poseidon product.
Check
out the cetus-links.org web-site for
more information.
Check out the On-Line books available internally by selecting "Bookshelf" from http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/?uicode=Maynooth
"The Unified Modelling Language Users Guide", by Booch, Rumbaugh, Jacobsen, Addison-Wesley, 1999.
"Using UML : Software Engineering with Objects and Components", 2nd Edition, P. Stevens and Pooley, Addison-Wesley, 2006.
“Object-Oriented Analysis and
Design with the Unified Process”, John W. Satzinger, Robert B. Jackson, Stephen
D. Burd, Thompson Course Technology, 2004.
See the OMG’s OCUP UML Certification program.
See a past exam papers for CS607: 01-02.
D. O'Donoghue,
2009.
,
NUI Maynooth, Ireland.