Approaches to software development
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# Learning outcomes

After studying this course you should be able to:

- describe the essential characteristics, and identify, using examples, the connections between the characteristics of a good software system
- describe the elements of a basic software development process and illustrate the variety of different life cycles
- understand the motivation for, and best practices of, an agile approach to software development
- explain the benefits of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) as a standard notation for modelling
- identify the different kinds of model used in the development of software and describe the relationship between models, viewpoints and software development.
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