Systems Analysis and Design

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to:

• define the concept of a model and its use to represent the processes and life cycle of a software,
• design models of several types and levels: conceptual and software specification models and less software implementation models,
• recognize various kinds of formal methods for gathering and describing requirements and specifications of a system,
• understand differences between functional and non-functional requirements, user requirements and system requirements,
• apply structured and object-oriented methodologies for the analysis and design of software systems/applications, drawing corresponding diagrammatic models,
• recognize the characteristics of a “good design” of software,
• develop the high-level architecture of a system,
• understand the difference between conceptual, logical, and physical design of a database,
• describe conceptually and logically the model of a relational database,
• use UML diagrams as a tool to describe the specifications, but also the development of the design of a software system.

Indicative Module Content

• Introduction to Software and Software Engineering
• Software Life-Cycle and Software Life-Cycle Models
• Functional Requirements and Non-functional Requirements
• Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method
• Data Flow Diagrams
• Data Dictionary
• Entity-Relationship Diagrams
• State Transition Diagrams
• Structure Charts
• Pseudocode
• Software Design and Software Architecture Design
• Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Method
• Unified Modeling Language (UML) – Use Case Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Activity Diagrams