By the end of the course the students will be able to

• define iterative incremental software development process
• define fundamental concepts in the Unified Process
• use the Unified Process in object oriented software development
• create requirements, analysis and design artifacts using UML
• understand dynamic and static object modeling using UML sequence, communication and class diagram notations
• interpret UML diagrams
• identify and write use cases at an appropriate level of detail
• relate use case analysis to iterative development and utilize use case driven development approach
• define object oriented analysis and object oriented design and related concepts
• identify conceptual classes and model their attributes and associations to create a model of the problem domain
• analyze use case scenarios to identify system operations that become starting events to design for and create contracts for system events
• understand the responsibility driven design (RDD) approach and create object design using RDD
• design software by using the basic object oriented design principles
• assess the qualities of object design alternatives
• map designs to code