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Software Engineering: Introduction
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Advanced Level
Course details
Syllabus
- How to build a non-trivial software system using an agile approach in a pair or team
- Techniques for specifying the functional and non-functional aspects of a software system
- Techniques for designing and testing a software system
- The role of refactoring in building a quality system
Prerequisite
Instructors
Reid Holmes
Associate Professor, Computer Science
University of British Columbia
Editor
The University of British Columbia was founded in Vancouver in 1908. The College of British Columbia is one of the most prestigious universities in North America, and ranks among the top universities in the world. UBC has more than 61,000 students, spread over the historic Vancouver campus (1908) and the Okanagan campus (2005), and an annual budget of 2.3 billion dollars.
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