Course details
Information Systems Analysis and Design
AIS Acad. year 2004/2005 Summer semester 7 credits
Software process. Life cycle models, project planning. Software modelling languages, the UML. Introduction to project planning, tracking and management. Overview of software engineering tools. Requirements specification. Software design - medeling techniques, system and program design, user interface design. Persistence in information systems - advanced topics from database technology. Software testing and change management, survey of information system development methodologies. A project oriented to requirement analysis and design done by means of a CASE system.
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Time span
- 39 hrs lectures
- 12 hrs pc labs
- 14 hrs projects
Department
Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
Students will know fundamentals of essential stages in information system development at a level, which is further evolved in specialized subjects. They are able to develop suitable models during information system requirements analysis and design, mainly in the UML language.
Students will learn how to analyze a design solution of a given problem in a small team. They learn to present and defend both partial and final results of the project.
Learning objectives
The goal of the subject is to give students knowledge of methods and tools used in information system development and to learn them to apply these tools.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
There are no prerequisites
Syllabus of lectures
- Software process - information system planning, software development lifecycle.
- Software modelling languages - modeling techniques in the UML.
- Introduction to project planning and tracking, project management.
- Software engineering tools.
- Requirements determination - requirements elicitation, negotiation and validation, business model.
- Requirements specification.
- Moving from analysis to design - design modeling techniques.
- System and program design - distributed and multilayered architectures, architecture modeling.
- User interface design - interface prototypes, interface components, navigation modeling and implementation.
- Persistence and database design - business objects and persistence, mapping objects to a relational, object-oriented and object-relational database.
- Advanced topics from database design - security and integrity, concurrency control, performance tuning.
- Testing and change management - test-driven development, managing change.
- Survey of information system development methodologies.
Progress assessment
Study evaluation is based on marks obtained for specified items. Minimimum number of marks to pass is 50.
Controlled instruction
A mid-term test, realization of projects.