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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Software Engineering: Modeling Software Systems using UML

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is the process of developing software through planning, requirement analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. This course focuses on the requirement analysis phase of SDLC, and you will learn how to use UML models to capture the system requirements and to facilitate communication between client/users and developers. UML is a general purpose visual modeling language for systems. It can be used to highlight different aspects of the system that are of interest to different stakeholders. Data requirements are captured in the domain model, which describes the important concepts of the application domain as classes, associations between them and constraints on them. Functional requirements are captured in the use-case model to describe the interactions between the system and its environment (users, other systems). UML incorporates the current best practices in Object-Oriented modeling techniques. Basic object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts are required to attempt the course. It is recommended to take the courses in the order they are listed, as they progressively develop techniques and concepts about software engineering, but it is not a hard requirement.

Status: Data Modeling
Status: Diagram Design
IntermediateCourse28 hours

Featured reviews

SA

5.0Reviewed Jul 4, 2025

I really enjoyed the course. Instructor is exceptional.

RV

5.0Reviewed Oct 27, 2024

I like it but sometimes the subtitles are wrong due to difficult pronunciation of some words by the teacher.

TP

5.0Reviewed Jul 16, 2025

Really helped me understand UML and requirements capture in a practical way!

PB

4.0Reviewed Feb 20, 2023

Good course but if I didn't already know this stuff it would have taken 2 weeks.

BG

4.0Reviewed Nov 7, 2022

The content is great. The exercises are very good.There is some noise in the audio. And some questions on the quiz are not related to the current topic.

SN

4.0Reviewed Apr 1, 2023

Easy to understand and good explanation. I feel that the assessment should have included modeling so that we would get a better learning experience.

MB

5.0Reviewed Jul 22, 2023

Thank You sir, you are amazing and your way of teaching is exceptional. You covered every use case that comes in the way of UML.

NV

4.0Reviewed Jul 22, 2024

This course was quite good actually, i learned many new things.

TD

5.0Reviewed Feb 22, 2023

It's such a lovely course, he explains so well. you can't fail to understand the core concepts.

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