Engineering Practices for Building Quality Software

Instructor: Kevin Wendt

Intermediate Level • Approx. 17 hours • Flexible Schedule

What You'll Learn

  • You will learn how to quantiatively measure design quality attributes.
  • You will establish feasible and testable scenarios for evaluating quality attributes in software architecture.
  • You will develop skills to ensure quality in developing code beyond correct functionality alone.
  • You will understand quality approaches to post-development stages of the lifecycle.

Skills You'll Gain

Engineering Software
Development Testing
Maintainability
Quality Assurance
Program Development
Software Design
Continuous Deployment
Test Tools
Application Security
Continuous Delivery
Software Design Patterns
Software Engineering
Object Oriented Design
Development Environment
Application Deployment
Threat Modeling
Software Quality (SQA/SQC)
Code Review
Software Quality Assurance
Software Architecture

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Outcomes

  • Learn new concepts from industry experts
  • Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
  • Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
  • Earn a shareable career certificate

There are 5 modules in this course

In this module, you will be introduced to the concept of quality as it relates to software.

In this module, you will learn about a variety of quality metrics including how to calculate them. A discussion of design patterns follows, allowing you to gain a deeper understanding of the quality they provide and exposure to several important patterns.

In this module, you will create Scenarios in order to document and verify quality attributes relevant to software architecture, including usability, performance, and more. Then, you will examine one specific quality attribute and its implications: security.

In this module, you will explore a variety of quality aspects of the implementation stage of the lifecycle. You will also evaluate coding style guides and static analysis tools. Finally, you will analyze self-documentation in open-source code and identify the capabilities of version control and automated build tools.

In this module, learners will discover quality in the final lifecycle stages: testing and deployment. Learners will first be instructed on the importance of test planning, understand what it means to evaluate tests and identify the benefits of test-first process. Then, a variety of resources will give learners understanding into continuous pipeline tools, allowing the learner to evaluate their potential benefits (and drawbacks) for their own projects.