The techniques and tools used by organizations to develop production-quality software systems are different from what students typically encounter in undergraduate course work. This course introduces these techniques and tools in the context of a semester-long, team-oriented development project. Students who complete this course will demonstrate that they can:

• Software project management:
  • Describe, explain and use the disciplines of the traditional software development lifecycle: analysis; design; implementation; testing and maintenance.
  • Describe, explain and use the disciplines of agile software development.
  • Compare and contrast traditional and agile development lifecycles.
  • Compare and contrast software quality techniques.
• Software development:
  • Design and implement a substantive software system.
  • Build design models a software system using the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
  • Design, implement and use a relational database system.
  • Design, implement and assess a user interface.
• Software Tools:
  • Use project management tools.
  • Use software development tools.
  • Use software configuration management tools.
• Professional Practice:
  • Design and produce technical documents.
  • Design and execute technical presentations.
  • Work effectively on teams.

The course technologies are based on React Native, PostgreSQL, and GitHub. The material is considered in the context of a reformed Christian perspective.