Introduction

What is the course about?

The practice of software development
All the things you need to know to
- Figure out what a system should do (requirements)
- Define and analyze the problem (analysis)
- Design a system to solve the problem (design)
- Implement the design (implementation)
- Ensure the quality of the implementation (testing, code review)
- Work in a collaborative team environment
- Share code (version control - shared code base and issue tracking)
- Planning and estimation (how long will it take?)

The course will focus on object-oriented software development

The techniques can be adapted for non object-oriented languages

Course will emphasize agile software development

Agile software development is an incremental development process
Develop the system a little bit at a time
The idea is to make steady progress
The system is stable and functional at all times
Don’t wait until the end of the project to “see if it works”

Here’s how we’re going to do that.