This course is part of the Software Development Lifecycle Specialization

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Software Development Lifecycle SpecializationUniversity of Minnesota

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Agile embraces change which means that team should be able to effectively make changes to the system as team learns about users and market.  To be good at effectively making changes to the system, teams need to have engineering rigor and excellence else embracing change becomes very painful and expensive.  
In this course, you will learn about engineering practices and processes that agile and traditional teams use to make sure the team is prepared for change. In additional, you will also learn about practices, techniques and processes that can help team build high quality software. You will also learn how to calculate a variety of quantitative metrics related to software quality.

This is an intermediate course, intended for learners with a background in software development. To succeed in the course, you should have experience developing in modern programming languages (e.g., Java, C#, Python, JavaScript), an understanding of software development lifecycle models, familiarity with UML diagrams (class and sequence diagrams), and a desire to better understand quality aspects of software development beyond program correctness.

At the end of this course, you will be able to comfortably and effectively participate in various techniques and processes for building secure and high quality software.

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Software Development Lifecycle Specialization

Intermediate Level

Approx. 17 hours to complete

English

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What you will learn

You will learn how to quantiatively measure design quality attributes.
You will establish feasible and testable scenarios for evaluating quality attributes in software architecture.
You will develop skills to ensure quality in developing code beyond correct functionality alone.
You will understand quality approaches to post-development stages of the lifecycle.

Skills you will gain

Application Security
Software Architecture
Software Testing
Software Design
Software Quality

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Course 4 of 4 in the

Software Development Lifecycle Specialization

Intermediate Level

Approx. 17 hours to complete

English

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Kevin Wendt

Director of Graduate Studies, Software Engineering

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

150,737 Learners

6 Courses

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University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota is among the largest public research universities in the country, offering undergraduate, graduate, and professional students a multitude of opportunities for study and research. Located at the heart of one of the nation’s most vibrant, diverse metropolitan communities, students on the campuses in Minneapolis and St. Paul benefit from extensive partnerships with world-renowned health centers, international corporations, government agencies, and arts, nonprofit, and public service organizations.

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week1

Week 1

12 minutes to complete

Introduction to Quality Software

12 minutes to complete

1 video (Total 7 min), 1 reading

4 hours to complete

Quality in Design

4 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 42 min), 11 readings, 1 quiz

7 videos

What is good design?5mMeasuring Coupling6mMeasuring Cohesion2mAdditional Measures of Quality9mIntroduction to Patterns and the Observer Pattern5mStrategy Pattern6mAdapter Pattern6m

11 readings

Quality Attributes according to Microsoft10mCMU SEI Technical Report on Quality Attributes30mCoupling Factor10mLack of Cohesion of Methods25mLack of Documentation (as a metric)10mMetric Definitions - SonarQube15mFurther Reading on Observer Pattern10mFurther Readings on Strategy Pattern #115mFurther Readings on Strategy Pattern #215mFurther Readings on Adapter #110mFurther Readings on Adapter #210m

1 practice exercise

Quality in Design20m

Week2

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Quality in Architecture

2 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 40 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

Week3

Week 3

7 hours to complete

Quality in Implementation

7 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 61 min), 8 readings, 4 quizzes

Week4

Week 4

4 hours to complete

Quality in Testing and Deployment

In this module, learners will discover quality in the final lifecycle stages: testing and deployment. Learners will first be instructed on the importance of test planning, understand what it means to evaluate tests and identify the benefits of test-first process. Then, a variety of resources will give learners understanding into continuous pipeline tools, allowing the learner to evaluate their potential benefits (and drawbacks) for their own projects.

4 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 30 min), 15 readings, 1 quiz

5 videos

Test Selection11mTest Adequacy5mTest-Driven Development3mContinuous Integration3mContinuous Delivery / Continuous Deployment4m

15 readings

More Details of Code Coverage15mMC/DC Example20mMinimum Acceptable Code Coverage10mJenkins - Getting Started15mJenkins Pipelines15mSonarQube5mSQALE Indices and Indicators5mSonarQube Open Source Project Hosting15movirt-root on SonarCloud10mNetflix's Spinnaker10mSpinnaker10mTextbook in the field5mDeployment Best Practices15mMore Deployment Info15mBeyond "Continuous"20m

1 practice exercise

Quality in Testing and Deployment30m

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About the Software Development Lifecycle Specialization

This Specialization is designed for people who are new to software engineering. It's also for those who have already developed software, but wish to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying context and theory of software development practices.

At the end of this Specialization, we expect learners to be able to: 1.) Build high-quality and secure software using SDLC methodologies such as agile, lean, and traditional/waterfall. 2.) Analyze a software development team's SDLC methodology and make recommendations for improvements. 3.) Compare and contrast software development methodologies with respect to environmental, organizational, and product constraints.

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