This course talks about software development lifecycles a description/prescription for how we write software. Design is a step in this life cycle, and the course explores the implications of this. Design has a role in the life cycle; it is always there, regardless of the kind of life cycle we’re talking about. Why is that? Why was design considered as a step in this life cycle?
Secure Software Design SpecializationUniversity of Colorado SystemAbout this Course
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
2 hours to complete
Design, is a Thoughtful Process
Design requires that you be much more than minimally knowledgeable about your project and how to accomplish it.
2 hours to complete
2 videos (Total 20 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz
2 readings
Additional Resource30m
Additional Resource30m
1 practice exercise
Introduction to Secure Software Design20m
2 hours to complete
How Design fits into the flow of software development
How Design translates requirements into specifications which coders can understand and use.
2 hours to complete
2 videos (Total 21 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz
2 readings
Additional Resource30m
Additional Resource20m
1 practice exercise
How Design fits20m
2 hours to complete
Design in the Context of Different SDLC's
There are different ways to develop software, but design plays a similar set of roles regardless of why way is used.
2 hours to complete
2 videos (Total 30 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz
2 readings
Additional Resource30m
Additional Resource45m
1 practice exercise
Design in the Context of Different SDLC's20m
2 hours to complete
How High-Level Design (or Architecture) handles Security Problems
The difference between high-level and detailed design and how high-level design is good at handling security issues.
2 hours to complete
2 videos (Total 17 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz
1 reading
Additional Resource30m
1 practice exercise
How High-Level Design (or Architecture) handles Security Problems20m
Reviews
TOP REVIEWS FROM SOFTWARE DESIGN AS AN ELEMENT OF THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFECYCLE
by NBJun 18, 2019
This course looks very basic if you are already worked on any one of requirements, design, implementation, or testing teams. more details can be included for user
by ESJun 4, 2020
Engaging presentation and food for thoughts. Although high level, I found the course worthwhile even as an experienced software engineer.
by SGMay 7, 2020
This course helped me to generate interactive classroom through the use of SDLC, and formative assessment and feedback.
by ASJul 1, 2019
A basic course but worth for gain the initial insights about the design and software development lifecycle.
About the Secure Software Design Specialization
Information security is an extremely important topic in our world today. As individuals, we seek to protect our personal information while the corporations we work for have to protect suppliers, customers, and company assets. Creating secure software requires implementing secure practices as early in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) as possible.
This Specialization focuses on ensuring security as part of software design and is for anyone with some workplace experience in software development who needs the background, perspective, and skills to recognize important security aspects of software design.
You’ll consider secure design for multiple SDLC models, software architecture considerations, and design patterns. You’ll understand how to identify and implement secure design when considering databases, UML, unit testing, and ethics. Mindsets and attitudes of successful designers—and hackers—are presented as well as project successes and failures.
Always at the core of front-end design will be user experience and you will have the opportunity to ensure clean and effective user interfaces that also serve to provide the best security. Back-end development topics such as database design are also covered.
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