Introduction

Software development life cycle

• Identifying software development roles and activities
• Comparing plan-driven vs. agile methodologies
• Waterfall
• V
• Spiral
• RUP
• XP
• Scrum

Gathering software requirements

• Eliciting requirements from users
• Developing software iterations

Analysing User and System Requirements

Creating use case diagrams and user stories

• Identifying actors and use cases
• Representing user-system interactions
• Describing system functionality from the user perspective

Estimating Requirements

• Accurately estimating user stories
• Translating relative estimates into time and money

Detailing use cases

• Elaborating on complex system behaviours
• Scripting user and system conversations
• Documenting nonfunctional and system requirements

Designing User Interfaces (UI)

Refining the use case analysis based on user feedback

• Analysing the use case to determine system functional requirements
• Sketching a UI mock-up

Transferring your UI mock-up into a prototype

• Leveraging a prototyping tool
• Laying out screens and controls
• Setting form and control properties

Object-Oriented Programming

Handling and manipulating program data

• Declaring variables
• Defining data types
• Handling events and event-driven programming

Structuring application behaviour

• Controlling code execution with conditional logic
• Organising code inside functions
• Passing arguments to functions
• Calling and returning data with functions

Crafting an Object-Oriented Class Hierarchy

Refactoring code to improve design

• Applying the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
• Dividing functionality into classes
• Modelling applications with UML class diagrams

Simplifying UI code with the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern

• Separating UI and application logic
• Designing controller classes

Improving code maintainability with inheritance

• Removing code duplication
• Disentangling complex conditional logic

Modelling Classes and Objects

Constructing classes

• Defining fields and methods
• Encapsulating and accessing object data

Maximising program flexibility with inheritance and polymorphism

• Creating and realising base classes
• Defining virtual and abstract methods
• Overriding base class behaviour

Reusing code at runtime

• Instantiating classes and executing object behaviour
• Sending messages from objects using events
• Throwing and catching object exceptions

Saving Data to Storage

Defining data requirements

• Drawing UML data models
• Representing data relationships and multiplicities
• Programming entity classes

Creating and accessing relational databases

• Manipulating data with SQL insert, update and delete queries
• Retrieving data with SQL select queries
• Managing multiple records using collections

Testing and Deploying an Application

• Creating test plans
• Scripting user acceptance tests
• Automating unit tests
• Testing nonfunctional requirements
• Delivering a first iteration software project