2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Computing Department of Computer Science Graduate major in Computer Science
Software Development Methodology
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Computer Science
- Instructor(s)
- Takashi Kobayashi / Kenji Tei
- Class Format
- Lecture (HyFlex)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 7-8 Mon / 7-8 Thu
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- CSC.T426
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Apr 2, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
[Purpose]
Students learn through practical training techniques and practical skills about requirements analysis and design skills for software.
[Overview]
Students learn about requirement acquisition methods such as goal-oriented analysis and scenario analysis, methodologies such as object-oriented methods and structured methods, as well as about reviews of requirements and design and product quality techniques. Students use these techniques to specify examples, and everyone presents, compares, and discusses their findings.
Course description and aims
[Achievement goals] By taking this course, students learn (from the overview section) 1) techniques of the upstream process of software development and 2) techniques for improving product quality. Through practical training, students reach the level needed to carry out actual development.
[Topics] This course deals with techniques of the upstream process of software development and techniques for improving product quality.
Keywords
Waterfall Model, Spiral Model, Unified Process, eXtreme Programming, Product Line Development, Requirements Engineering Process, Problem Frame, Goal-oriented Requirements Analysis, Scenario Analysis, Use Case Modeling, Misuse Case Modeling, Requirements Documentation based on IEEE830, Winwin
Approach, Requirements Prioritization based on AHP, Defect Detection and Prevention Approach for Requirements Prioritization, Data Flow Modeling, State Transition Modeling, Entity Relationship Modeling, Structured Analysis, Structured Design, Object-oriented Design, McCall’s Quality Factor, Halstead’s Complexity Metrics, McCabe’s Cyclomatic Number, CK Metrics, Function Point Approach, Boehms’ COCOMO approach
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Classroom learning is followed by presentation and discussion
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction of software development process | Understand the necessity of development process before coding |
| Class 2 | Software Process | Understand the major software processes and their differences |
| Class 3 | Software Quality and Requirements Engineering | Understand the relationship among software quality, customer’s demands and requirements specification |
| Class 4 | Requirements Elicitation and cost estimation | Understand Requirements Elicitation and cost estimation |
| Class 5 | Key perspectives for analyzing software requirements | Understand key perspectives for analyzing requirements of target software |
| Class 6 | Data Flow Model and Entity Relationship Model | Understand and Practice Data Flow Model and Entity Relationship Model |
| Class 7 | Structure Analysis | Understand and Practice Structure Analysis and Design |
| Class 8 | Object-oriented Modeling : UML | Understand object-oriented structure and behavior modeling with UML. |
| Class 9 | Object-oriented Analysis: Domain Analysis | Understand role of domain analysis and typical domain analysis techniques in the object-oriented analysis. |
| Class 10 | Object-oriented Analysis: System Analysis | Understand role of system analysis and ICONIX robustness analysis. |
| Class 11 | Object-oriented Design | Understand role of software design and typical object-oriented design |
| Class 12 | Software Architecture | Understand role of software architecture and typical software architecture patterns. |
| Class 13 | Domain-Driven Design | Understand object-oriented analysis and design with Domain-Driven Design |
| Class 14 | Advanced software design | Understand advanced software design approaches |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
None. Slides are available in lecture.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
None.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Evaluating report, presentation and discussion with quality of reports (60%) and logical clarity of presentation (40%).
Related courses
- CSC.T435 ： Advanced Software Engineering
- CSC.T424 ： Workshop on Software Development
- CSC.T423 ： Software Development Studio: Basic I
- CSC.T430 ： Camp on Team-based Software Development
- CSC.T434 ： International Project for System Development
Prerequisites
Ability to make Java programs.
Other
Please note that the main classrooms are different for each lecturer. Please check the LMS for details.