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).
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Software Engineering: Modeling Software Systems using UML
This course is part of Software Engineering Specialization
Instructor: Kenneth W T Leung
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There are 7 modules in this course
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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3 videos1 reading1 assignment
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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3 videos5 readings1 assignment
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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3 videos3 readings1 assignment
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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