Approaches to software development

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.