Software Development and Professional Practice

Catalog description

Best practices in the field of software development. Students complete a medium-scale software project as members of a development team. Topics include: professional ethics and responsibilities; multi-tier systems; software life cycle; requirements analysis; system modeling; implementation and testing; re-engineering and maintainability. Both traditional (waterfall) and newer (agile) methodologies; design patterns; use of current technologies for programming, project management, and source archiving.