Paper 10

PROGRAMMING AND SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

To equip the candidate with the knowledge, skills and attitudes that will enable him/her to analyse and design information systems and develop object-oriented programs using Java.

On completion, a candidate should be able to

Analyse information systems problems and design solutions using Java
Write programs using object-oriented software development methodology
Test, debug and handle error in object-oriented programs
Describe conventional methodologies in systems analysis and design
Integrate and deploy information systems

Content

1
Information Systems Concept and Technology
1. 1.1
  Information systems overview and concepts
2. 1.2
  Systems theory
3. 1.3
  Systems thinking and applications
4. 1.4
  Components of an information system
5. 1.5
  Types of information systems
6. 1.6
  Overview of programming languages
7. 1.7
  Types of programming languages
8. 1.8
  Characteristics of a good information system
9. 1.9
  Personnel involved in Systems Analysis and Design
2
Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
1. 2.1
  Definition of systems development life cycle
2. 2.2
  Phases of SDLC
3. 2.3
  Advantages and disadvantages of SDLC
4. 2.4
  Software development Methodologies
3
Requirements Elicitation
1. 3.1
  Stakeholder analysis
2. 3.2
  Need for requirements gathering
3. 3.3
  Strategies and process for requirements gathering
4. 3.4
  Requirements gathering tools and techniques
5. 3.5
  Gap analysis
6. 3.6
  Prioritisation of requirements
7. 3.7
  Systems specifications
4
Systems Analysis
1. 4.1
  Overview of systems analysis concepts
2. 4.2
  Information systems project initiation
3. 4.3
  Feasibility and risk analysis
4. 4.4
  Stages in system analysis
5. 4.5
  Techniques in system analysis (27)
6. 4.6
  Tools for systems analysis
7. 4.7
  System analysis report
8. 4.8
  Using software tool to assist in systems analysis
5
Systems Design
1. 5.1
  Overview of system design and concepts
2. 5.2
  System design approaches
3. 5.3
  Logical and physical design
4. 5.4
  Modelling techniques and applications
5. 5.5
  User interface design
6. 5.6
  Business logic design
7. 5.7
  Database design
8. 5.8
  Case tools
9. 5.9
  Designing test cases
10. 5.10
  Writing and documenting design specification
11. 5.11
  Using software tools to assist in systems design
6
Systems Implementation
1. 6.1
  Systems implementation and concepts
2. 6.2
  Assessing the platform for the system to be implemented
3. 6.3
  User training
4. 6.4
  Data conversion methods
5. 6.5
  System changeover
6. 6.6
  System Evaluation and Optimization
7
System Testing and Deployment
1. 7.1
  Software testing approaches
2. 7.2
  Black box and white box testing
3. 7.3
  Software testing strategies
4. 7.4
  Systems deployment and configuration
5. 7.5
  User Documentation and Training
8
System Maintenance
1. 8.1
  Overview of software maintenance
2. 8.2
  Software maintenance approaches
3. 8.3
  Legacy systems
4. 8.4
  Systems management and support
9
Other Software Development Methodologies
1. 9.1
  Waterfall
2. 9.2
  Prototype
3. 9.3
  Agile Software Development
4. 9.4
  Rapid Application development
5. 9.5
  Extreme Programming
6. 9.6
  Spiral
7. 9.7
  LEAN
8. 9.8
  SCRUM (28)
10
Overview of Programming Techniques and Paradigms
1. 10.1
  Introduction to programming and concepts
2. 10.2
  High level and low-level languages
3. 10.3
  Translators and program translation
4. 10.4
  Source Code and object code
5. 10.5
  Generation of Programming Languages
6. 10.6
  Programming approaches
7. 10.7
  Strengths of object-oriented programming over other paradigms
11
Introduction to Java Programming Language
1. 11.1
  Java language specification
2. 11.2
  Java JDK, IDE and API
3. 11.3
  Java program structure
4. 11.4
  Identifiers, data types, variables and constants
5. 11.5
  Statements and blocks
6. 11.6
  Expressions and operators
7. 11.7
  Control structures
8. 11.8
  Memory management
9. 11.9
  Arrays
10. 11.10
  Dictionaries
12
Object-Oriented Programming
1. 12.1
  Methods and messages
2. 12.2
  Abstract data types
3. 12.3
  Classes
4. 12.4
  Objects
5. 12.5
  Class relationships
6. 12.6
  Setters and getters
7. 12.7
  Constructors and destructors
8. 12.8
  Scope and access control
9. 12.9
  Encapsulation
10. 12.10
  Abstraction
11. 12.11
  Inheritance
12. 12.12
  Polymorphism
13. 12.13
  Interfaces
13
Functions / Methods
1. 13.1
  Function declaration
2. 13.2
  Function prototype and type checking
3. 13.3
  Arguments and parameters
4. 13.4
  Parameter passing
5. 13.5
  Inline functions
6. 13.6
  Function overloading
7. 13.7
  Recursion
8. 13.8
  Pure virtual functions
9. 13.9
  Reference and argument passing
10. 13.10
  Writing programs using functions (29)
14
File Input / Output
1. 14.1
  Streams and files
2. 14.2
  Input and output streams
3. 14.3
  File streams
4. 14.4
  Object streams
5. 14.5
  Object serialization
6. 14.6
  Readers and writers
7. 14.7
  Writing programs using Input / Output streams