COM513 Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

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Course Description

Systems Development Environment, Identifying and Planning, Object Oriented Analysis: Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Business Process Modeling, Object Modeling–Class Diagrams, Object Oriented Design, Implementation, Maintenance.

Prerequisites

Object Oriented Programming, Software Engineering

Course Objectives

• Develop a working understanding of formal object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) processes
• Develop the skills to determine which processes and OOAD techniques should be applied to a given project

Course Outcomes

At the end of the course the student should be able to

• Understand the application of OOAD practices from a software project management perspective
• Analyze requirements of an object-oriented project
• Understand the fundamental aspects of OOAD using UML
• Simulate real life problems in object-oriented domain
• Plan and control the activities associated with an information system’s project management, apply them in a team project.

Meetings

• Class meets weekly on Wednesdays 15:40-18:50
• Office Hours weekly on Wednesdays 14:00-15:20

Grading Policy

The tentative point distribution is as follows.

Homeworks	20%
Term Project	40%
Final Exam	40%

Policies

• Late assignments will not be accepted unless an agreement is reached with the leturer.
• The class grades will be assigned using the Near East University's grading scale.
• I allow students to attend class at their own discretion. If you miss a class however, you are responsible for the materials covered.
• Cheating will not be tolerated.
• Attacks performed against University/Lecturer resources are expressly prohibited.

Textbooks

• Joseph S. Valacich, Modern Systems Analysis and Design, 8th Edition, Pearson, 2017

References

• Noushin Ashrafi, Hessam Ashrafi, Object Oriented Systems Analysis and Design, Pearson, 2009
• Raul Sidnei Wazlawick, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design for Information Systems Modeling with UML, OCL, and IFML, Morgan Kaufmann, 2014
• Jeya Mala, S Geetha, Object Oriented Analysis and Design Using UML, Tata McGraw Hill Education Private Limited, 2013
• Brett McLaughlin, Gary Pollice, David West, Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design A Brain Friendly Guide to OOAD, O'Reilly Media, 2006

Useful Links

• OOAD, Wikipedia
• Allen Holub's UML Quick Reference
• Building Skills in Object-Oriented Design
• Java Tutorial, Oracle
• OOAD Using UML, Oracle
• Creately online diagramming

Group Projects

Project proposal: How to write a research/project proposal

Guidelines for writing project/research reports: docs.tar.gz

GitHub (project hosting), Tutorial

Groups

Schedule

Week	Topic	Readings
1	Introduction	Valacich, Chapter 1 and 2 Slides: Ch1, Ch2 Practice Test 1 Practice Test 2
2	Managing the information systems project, OOAD-Project Management	Valacich, Chapter 3 and Appendix 3a Slides: Ch3, Appendix 3 Practice Test 3
3	Planning	Valacich, Chapter 4 Slides: Ch4 Practice Test 4
4	Planning	Valacich, Chapter 5 Slides: Ch5 Practice Test 5
5	Analysis	Valacich, Chapter 6 Slides: Ch6 Practice Test 6
6	Analysis	Valacich, Chapter 7, Appendix 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d Slides: Ch7, Appendix 7a, Appendix 7b, Appendix 7c, Appendix 7d Practice Test 7
7	Analysis	Valacich, Chapter 8 Slides: Ch8, Practice Test 8
8	Design	Valacich, Chapter 9 Slides: Ch9, Practice Test 9
9	Design	Valacich, Chapter 10 Slides: Ch10, Practice Test 10
10	Design	Valacich, Chapter 11 Slides: Ch11, Practice Test 11
11	Design	Valacich, Chapter 12 Slides: Ch12, Practice Test 12
12	Implementation	Valacich, Chapter 13 Slides: Ch13, Practice Test 13
13	Maintenance	Valacich, Chapter 14 Slides: Ch14, Practice Test 14
14	Review of the Semester, Term Project Presentation
15	Final Exam

The instructor reserves the right to make changes to the above syllabus as necessary. Students are responsible to be aware of changes announced in class and/or via the internet.