Analysis and Design with UML Training Course

Who should attend

This course is appropriate to system architects, designers, project managers and programmers who wish to develop their knowledge and understanding of analysis and design.

Prerequisites

Some experience of systems and software development is assumed, but previous exposure to UML and the design techniques and concepts covered in this course is in no way essential.

On-site

If you would like to discuss custom / on-site OO AandD UML training for any size of team, please get in touch – we would be glad to help build a course that meets your learning requirements.

We can take into account your existing technical skills, project requirements and timeframes, and specific topics of interest to tailor the most relevant and focussed course for you.

This can be particularly useful if you are looking for a refresher on the Best Practices with UML, or need to include extra topics to help with pre-requisite skills.

Analysis and Design with UML Training Course

Core Concepts of Analysis and Design

• Modelling basics: state, change and reification.
• The nature of software objects.
• Abstraction, rights and responsibilities: design by contract.
• Determining appropriate scope: encapsulation.
• Intertype relationships. polymorphism.
• Design Patterns: exploiting system symmetries and invariances.
• The role of psychology: modelling the modeller.

Introduction to Modelling Notation and the UML

• Object and class diagrams.
• Sequence and collaboration diagrams.
• State charts and activity diagrams.
• Use Case diagrams.
• Component and deployment diagrams.
• Diagram interrelationships.

UML Notation Basics

• UML document structure.
• Packages: Composite packages, package dependencies, package generalisation.
• Dependencies, constraints and guard conditions.
• Stereotypes and tag values.
• Layout and ascetics.

Object and Class Diagrams

• Object notation: Object states, active objects.
• Class notation.
• Classes, attributes and associations, qualified and N-ary associations.
• Attribute visibility: Private, public, protected and friend.
• Association classes, aggregation and composition.
• Resolving circular associations.
• Inheritance, multiple inheritance, multiple virtual inheritance.
• Private, public and protected inheritance.
• Polymorphism, abstract classes and templates.
• Inheritance misuse:
• The Circle-Ellipse problem.
• Inheritance abuse: avoiding cosmic class-hierarchies.

Architecture and Design Patterns

• The classification of archetypal form.
• Observer.
• Model-View-Controller.
• Singleton.
• Chain of Responsibility.
• Visitor.
• State and Strategy.
• Memento.
• Bridge.
• Factory.
• Façade.
• Composite.
• Decorator.
• Flyweight.

Sequence and Collaboration Diagrams

• Objects, lifelines and activations.
• Object creation and destruction.
• Message passing, control branching and joining.
• Synchronous and asynchronous calls.
• Recursive, reflexive and iterative calls.
• Message sequencing.

State Charts and Activity Diagrams

• States, events and transitions.
• Implementation and protocol state charts.
• Entry and exit actions.
• Signalling, complex, explicit and self-transitions.
• History, pseudo and composite states.
• Junction, concurrent and disjoint sub-states.
• Forks, joins and branches.
• Stub states and transitions.

Use Case Diagrams

• Requirements capture.
• Actors, messages and Use Cases.
• ‘Uses’, ‘includes’, and ‘extends’ relationships.
• Actor generalisation.
• Developing a Use Case diagram.
• Relating Use Case diagrams to other UML models.

Development Processes

• Large projects and process overhead.
• The Waterfall model.
• Iterative and incremental development.
• Design refactoring.
• Agile Development.
• Designing for change.