Description and Modelling Techniques (5 cr)

Objective

After completing the course, the student
• is able to model and describe the structures of software and related functionalities with commonly used description and modeling methods and tools
• is able to model data structures and dependencies and to design a relational database based on data.

Content

• Modelling and describing program structures
• Modelling and describing functionality of programs
• Data modeling and description (ER model)
• Database structure completion and normalization.

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student
• knows the basic uses and goals for modelling
• can categorise the most important diagrams according to use
• can explain and give an example of a behavioural and structural diagram as well as an ER diagram
• can use a CASE tool for producing diagrams.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student
• can describe the uses of different diagrams in software life cycle
• can use case diagrams and case descriptions in analysing requirements
• can use class, sequence, and state as well as ER diagrams in designing software.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student
• can choose relevant modelling methods applicable to a project
• can apply modelling and modelling techniques in all phases of a software project
• can use diagrams to describe a system from different abstraction levels, and from different angles.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student
• knows the basic uses and goals for modelling
• can categorise the most important diagrams according to use
• can explain and give an example of a behavioural and structural diagram as well as an ER diagram
• can use a CASE tool for producing diagrams.

Qualifications

Object-oriented Applications and Databases