5CCS2OSD: Object-oriented Specification and Design |
The lecture notes and slides for this course are in this
directory.
Lectures are on Thursdays 11-13 in the B5 lecture theatre, FWB,
tutorials are from 1-2 on Thursdays in the theatre, they
start in the first week of October.
The coursework is here. Teams of 5 or 6 students will be allocated randomly,
the team lists are on Keats. The coursework deadline is 30th
December, provisional marks will be released in the first week of January 2018.
Slides
Separate slides for Part 1: here.
Separate slides for Part 2: here.
Separate slides for Part 3: here.
Separate slides for Part 4: here.
Separate slides for Part 5: here.
Textbook
The following is the core textbook for the course, an alternative is this textbook.
A useful book for UML is "UML Distilled" by M. Fowler, but make sure you get a copy
for Version 2.0 (or later) of UML, not version 1.3, version 1.4, or other earlier versions.
Tutorials
- First tutorial and
solution.
- Second tutorial and
solution.
- Third tutorial and
solution.
- Fourth tutorial and
solution.
- 5th tutorial and
solution
- 6th tutorial and
solution
- 7th tutorial and
solution
Revision
The exams will have 3 questions to answer from 4.
A question will typically contain parts which require knowledge of
definitions, eg, "What is meant by Agile development?", counting in total up to 50% of a question, and
parts requiring practical application of knowledge and techniques, similar to the
tutorial and coursework problems.
The following topics will be examined:
- Software modelling concepts, requirements engineering, development process steps, design process steps
- UML use case, class and state machine diagrams, pre and post conditions (OCL)
- Design patterns and refactoring
- Architecture diagrams
- Agile development
Past exams
The January 2010 exam and solutions are here.
and here.
The January 2011 exam and solutions are here.
and here.
The January 2012 exam and solutions are here.
Please note that agile development is a new topic, replacing web development as
part 5 of the course in 2013/14.
The January 2015 exam is here. Solutions: here.
The August 2015 exam is here. Solutions: here.
Links to related information