System Analysis and Design

Catalog description

The objective of this course is to introduce methods to efficiently organize and manage software projects using advanced software engineering class tools including Rhapsody (ilogix) and Rational (IBM). Topics to be covered include: the software development life cycle, specification, analysis, design, implementation and testing; modular top-down analysis, design and testing, CASE tools for system analysis and design, data modeling and processing modeling tools (data flow diagrams, entity relationship diagrams), traditional and prototyping approaches, design and development of relational database systems, I/O design, input validation and user interface design (GUI), project management tools and source code control systems (SCCS), required communication skills for the systems analyst, and fact finding and interviewing techniques.