This course is part of the Secure Software Design Specialization

Albert Glock

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Secure Software Design SpecializationUniversity of Colorado System

About this Course

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Since many software developers are compulsive coders, they have created software over the years to help them do their job.  There are tools which make design and its associated tasks easier.  The course introduces some basic tools and techniques to help you with design.  Tools aren’t always tangible, however.  The last two lessons of this course discuss questions of Ethics in software development. The purpose here is, as with tools, to equip you to better carry our your responsibilities as a designer. Students will be required to have a prior knowledge of writing and delivering software and some programming knowledge in java.

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Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish

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Albert Glock

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Computer Science

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4 Courses

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Course 3 of 4 in the

Secure Software Design Specialization

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Intermediate Level

Approx. 14 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish

Offered by

University of Colorado System

The University of Colorado is a recognized leader in higher education on the national and global stage. We collaborate to meet the diverse needs of our students and communities. We promote innovation, encourage discovery and support the extension of knowledge in ways unique to the state of Colorado and beyond.

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week

Week 1

2 hours to complete

General Design Notions

What is in a design and an introduction to hierarchical design representations.

2 hours to complete

2 videos (Total 9 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

2 videos

Intro to Design Methods and Tools3m

Jackson Structured Design5m

2 readings

Additional Resource30m

1 practice exercise

General Design Notions30m

Week

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Dynamic and Algebraic Designs

Hierarchical design which shows data flow, and rigorous, formally provable methods of design representation.

2 hours to complete

2 videos (Total 11 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

2 videos

Data Flow Diagrams6m

Z4m

2 readings

Additional Resource30m

1 practice exercise

Dynamic and Algebraic Designs30m

Week

Week 3

2 hours to complete

UML Tools

An introduction to IBM Rhapsody, a UML modeling tool.

2 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 21 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

3 videos

UML : Obtaining Rhapsody from IBM5m

UML Class diagrams with Rhapsody9m

Building a Sequence Diagram with Rhapsody5m

2 readings

Additional Resource30m

1 practice exercise

UML Tools30m

Week

Week 4

2 hours to complete

Unit Testing

An introduction to the use of JUnit which performs unit testing for Java software.

2 hours to complete

2 videos (Total 14 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

2 videos

JUnit Install5m

Using JUnit8m

2 readings

TestRunner Download30m

Additional Resource30m

1 practice exercise

Unit Testing30m

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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