This course is required for all computer science  MAJ   majors.

It helps students build an understanding of how to develop a software system from scratch by guiding them through the development process and giving them the fundamental principles of systems development with object oriented technology.

ⓘ	This course involves a substantial group project, and participation is compulsory.

Prerequisites:  COMP 2001

Availability: This course is usually offered in Fall and Winter semesters.

Course Objectives

The objective of this course is to create a software system from requirements capture, perform requirements capture with use case analysis, create an object-oriented domain analysis model from the use cases, transform the domain model into software classes and apply design patterns in selecting and creating the software.

Representative Workload

• Individual Assignment 5%
• Group Project (over several iterations) 45%
• In-class Exams (2) 50%

Representative Course Outline

• Software development process definitions (3 hours):
• Software lifecycles, and activities within software lifecycles.
• Systems level considerations, such as, the interaction of software with its intended environment.
• Introduction and evaluation of software process models.
• Programming in the large versus individual programming.
• Use cases and UML use case notation (2 hours)
• Applying use case for requirement capture (2 hours)
• Design patterns (8 hours)
• Software construction (2 hours)
• Software project management (2 hours)
• Software verification and validation (4 hours)
• Software evolution (1 hour)
• Software reliability (1 hour)
• Professional communication (1 hour)
• Professional ethics (1 hour)
• Defensive programming (1 hour)
• Optional: Software tools, CVS/SVN/Git, Ant, JUnit

Notes

• Credit cannot be obtained for both Computer Science 2005 and the former Computer Science 3716.

Page last updated May 24th 2021