PV213 Enterprise Information Systems in Practice

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2013
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Ing. et Ing. Aleš Macek (lecturer), Ing. Leonard Walletzký, Ph.D. (deputy)
Ing. Daniel Mika, Ph.D. (lecturer), Ing. Leonard Walletzký, Ph.D. (deputy)
Ing. Libor Švehlák (lecturer), Ing. Leonard Walletzký, Ph.D. (deputy)
Mgr. Jitka Kitner (assistant)
Ing. Leonard Walletzký, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Vlastislav Dohnal, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: Ing. Libor Švehlák
Supplier department: Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Timetable
Tue 16:00–17:50 G123
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course shows typical product development in the IT company. It covers all phases of the product life cycle from the initial customer requirements through project planning, designing, implementation, integration and testing to the maintenance phase.

At the end of the course students should be able to:

* Understand role of IT in business
* Understand processes and roles in IT company
* Know required soft and hard skills for each role in IT company
* Identify input requirements and output results of the each product phase
* Explain in detail all phases of product life cycle
* Know different strategies of product development in each product life cycle
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction, UML, motivation example
  • * Introduction to course, basic information
  • * What course covers (quick overview about chapters)
  • * What is EIS, evolution in history
  • * Requirements
  • * UML refresh, business domain model
  • * UML in praxis
  • 2. Architecture of the EIS in the standard environment
  • * What is SW architecture, role of architect
  • * Legacy application, 2 tier, 3 tier
  • * Standard intranet application example
  • * Standard internet application example
  • * Best practices
  • 3. Architecture of the EIS in the cloud
  • * Cloud computing overview (Amazon, Microsoft, Google)
  • * Simple web application in the cloud
  • * Advanced features
  • * Pros and cons of cloud computing
  • 4. Integration of EIS with other systems
  • * Legacy integrations (file based, database access)
  • * Platform specific integrations
  • * Enterprise service bus
  • * Web Services, SOAP, REST
  • * Best practices
  • 5. Security
  • * Security refresh
  • * Securing intranet applications
  • * Securing internet applications
  • * Security attacks in practice
  • * Best practices
  • 6. Configuration management and tools
  • * What is CM, history
  • * CM plan, configuration manager, different approaches
  • * CM tools
  • * CM best practices, use cases
  • 7. Deployment, migration, maintenance phase
  • * What is deployment, deployment strategies
  • * Deployments in different environments
  • * Closing the project
  • * Specifics of maintenance projects
  • * Application code migration
  • * Application data migration
  • * Long term projects
  • * Customer support
  • 8. Starting with EIS - initial steps
  • * Lead management and opportunity development
  • * Bid preparation
  • * Estimations
  • * Risk management
  • * Team establishment
  • 9. Project management
  • * Role of project management
  • * Project plan
  • * Project controlling and reporting
  • * Project management supporting tools
  • * Service level agreement
  • * Project management qualifications
  • 10. Quality assurance
  • * Role of quality management and quality assurance
  • * QA plan
  • * Document management + tools
  • * Reviews
  • * Product deviations and measures
  • * ISO
  • * CMMI
  • 11. Development process
  • * Development process in general
  • * Process tailoring
  • * Waterfall
  • * Iterative and incremental
  • * Agile development
  • * Scrum
  • * Extreme Programming
  • 12. Testing theory
  • * Purpose of testing
  • * Basic test principles
  • * Test process
  • * Multilevel testing
  • * Static techniques
  • * Blackbox vs. Whitebox testing
  • * Test management
  • 13. Testing in praxis
  • * Risk-based testing strategy
  • * Test exit criteria
  • * Test-driven development
  • * Combinatorial testing
  • * Test automation and regression testing
  • * Kind of tests in praxis (test types and test techniques)
Literature
  • Peter Zimmerer. Software Testing in the 21st Century, Siemens AG 2010
  • ISTQB, Certifikovaný tester - učební osnovy pro základní supeň, CaSTB http://www.castb.org
  • Kravál, Ilja. Analytické modelování pomocí UML v praxi (paperback 2010). http://www.objects.cz
  • ROSE, Kenneth. Project quality management: why, what and how. 1st ed. Fort Lauderdale: J. Ross Publishing, 2005.
  • COHN, Mike. Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum. 1st. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2009. ISBN 0-321-57936-4. info
  • FOWLER, Martin. UML distilled : a brief guide to the standard object modeling language. 3rd ed. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2004, xxx, 175. ISBN 0321193687. info
  • BASS, Len, Paul CLEMENTS and Rick KAZMAN. Software architecture in practice. 2nd ed. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2003, xxii, 528. ISBN 0321154959. info
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion, homework
Assessment methods
A homework is required to the colloquium.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2015.
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