Selected Mechanisms of Software Development

This course deals with software maintenance and configuration management. Students will gain an understanding of the major problems in software maintenance, and techniques to help counter these problems. In addition, students will gain knowledge in the area of configuration management, without which the discipline of software maintenance cannot do without. In this area, the course deals primarily with the identification and management of configurations.
In the area of software testing, the course deals with the issues of software testing and quality assurance throughout the software development life cycle. Students will gain knowledge of the different levels of testing and the techniques used in these levels, how to evaluate software quality and the tests themselves. Integrating these activities into the testing process, which is part of the entire software development life cycle, is also an integral part of the course. In addition, students will gain knowledge of software quality assurance practices. This discipline is very closely related to and makes heavy use of software testing. The course will focus on the quality assurance process itself and its integration into the software development life cycle, verification and validation.
In the area of design, the course focuses on defining the characteristics of large-scale enterprise applications and then explores multi-tier architecture as one of the most widely used architectures for large-scale enterprise systems. The importance of each layer and the use of design patterns in these layers are discussed in turn. In addition, the course explores other approaches and techniques used such as web services, REST architectural style, microservices architecture, and others.