APP 4030 - Information Systems Engineering

(3 units)

Concepts of a systems development methodology. Need for systems development methodology tools and techniques. Systems development life cycle. Tool and techniques for data modeling, process modeling and behavior modeling. Use of CASE tools. The information Engineering methodology: philosophy, tools and techniques; centrality of CASE tools in IE. Prototyping techniques. User participation in systems development: Rapid Application Development (RAD) (e.g. DSDM) and Joint Application Development (JAD) methods. Object Oriented systems analysis and design (OOAD): Object modeling using UML; Use case scenarios; properties of objects and classes; relationship diagrams; Object states and behavior using state transition diagrams and event diagrams; CASE tools in OOAD. Soft Systems Methodology. Project management tools and techniques.
Prerequisites: IST 4020, IST 4030