Software Design: From Requirements to Release

1h 55mAdvanced2020-04-30

Authors

Neelam Dwivedi

Assistant Teaching Professor at Heinz College

Course details

Follow along with the full life-cycle implementation of a software project. This course takes you from requirements development to modeling, design, coding, and testing. It features a small-scale web application project that realistically depicts the workflow and challenges of a typical software development project. Instructor Neelam Dwivedi brings together the most important concepts, tools, and techniques that developers need to know, including requirements elicitation and validation, proof of concept modeling, best practices for beta deployment, and refactoring. By the end of the course, you'll understand the reality of software engineering—beyond writing code—and know how to effectively structure and manage projects as a team.

Topics include:
Eliciting and specifying requirements
Validating requirements
Deploying POC
Building models and code
Delivering and deploying the beta software
Preparing for final release
Refactoring

Skills covered

Software ArchitectureAdvancedSoftware DevelopmentDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Going from requirements to release
02 - What you should know
03 - Case study overview
04 - Using the GitHub repo

1. Sprint 1 - Project Kickoff

05 - Define problem and vision statements
06 - Elicit and specify requirements
07 - Requirement validation
08 - Technology validation
09 - Proof of concept (POC) setup
10 - POC implementation
11 - POC deployment
12 - Challenge - From dev to deploy
13 - Solution - From dev to deploy

2. Sprint 2 - Beta

14 - Prepare sprint backlog
15 - Build models
16 - Build code
17 - Deliver and deploy
18 - Challenge
19 - Solution

3. Sprint 3 - Release 1.0

20 - Prepare sprint backlog
21 - Implement 'included' use case
22 - Final release
23 - Refactoring
24 - Challenge
25 - Solution

Conclusion

26 - Next steps