This three-day instructor-led course will provide participants with the tools needed to reach the next level of object-oriented software development.

These tools will help discover and communicate:

• what an object-oriented system is functionally required to do
• how the system should be built in a manner conducive to maintainability

Each topic will be reinforced with very interactive and targeted group exercises (no computers) that will guide participants through complete software development cycles.

Modern object-oriented developers and designers must have a deeper understanding of this technology paradigm to successfully create sustainable custom software solutions.

Audience:

• Software development professionals looking for a deeper understanding of what it takes to create sustainable enterprise software solutions.

Students will learn to:

• Understand the advantages of object-oriented techniques

• Understand agile software development methods

• Communicate designs with the Unified Modeling Language (UML) in a pragmatic way

• Create UML use case diagrams

• Write effective use cases and/or user stories to capture customer needs

• Use UML sequence diagram notation to visually describe system interactions

• Effectively identify business concepts to minimize the representation gap

• Depict relevant business concepts in a Domain Model using UML static structure notation

• Identify acceptance criteria for relevant functionality

• Map acceptance tests to unit tests (Behavior-Driven Development)

• Identify the aspects of a ‘good’ design

• Identify the aspects of a ‘bad’ design

• Apply principles such as Low Coupling and High Cohesion

• Assign responsibility to appropriate classes using the GRASP patterns

• Use the SOLID principles as design guidelines

• Apply the most common Design Patterns

• Know when and where to apply Design Patterns

• Depict object collaboration using UML interaction diagrams

• Portray classes and their dependencies using UML static structure notation

• Produce code from design

• Apply Test-Driven Development concepts

• Understand when not to create Analysis and Design artifacts