Mastering Agile Development of Software as a Service

About this Professional Certificate

Learn the fundamentals for engineering long-lasting software using highly-productive agile techniques to develop Software as a Service (SaaS)!

This Professional Certificate Program presents ideas and techniques for designing, developing, and modifying large software systems using Agile techniques and the same best-of-breed tools used by professionals, including GitHub, Pivotal Tracker, Travis CI, Heroku, and more.

Topics include: function-oriented and object-oriented modular design techniques, designing for re-use and maintainability including proper use of design patterns, behavior-driven design, test-driven development, user stories for requirements elicitation & documentation, verification and validation, cost and quality metrics and estimation, project team organization and management, analyzing and refactoring legacy code.

Fully integrated into each course, the

platform provides students with a seamless integrated software development environment, auto-graded assessments, and a digital textbook.

What you'll learn

• Articulate the primary differences between Agile and Plan-and-Document methodologies.
• Apply the key ideas of learning a new language in order to construct programs in Ruby.
• Summarize the key architectural elements of RESTful SaaS applications and microservices.
• Apply the key ideas of learning a new framework to 2 construct and deploy simple Rails applications.
• Apply behavior-driven development (BDD) to elicit customer needs and express them as user stories that will drive development.
• Construct unit- and module-level tests and measure their coverage.
• Apply BDD & TDD to identify the main parts of a legacy code base, measure code quality, and refactor code to improve its quality.
• Exercise best practices in planning, effort estimation, and coordination of the efforts of small software teams, using appropriate tools to support those practices.
• Recognize when an appropriate Design Pattern may improve code quality, and refactor code to apply those Design Patterns.
• Identify and repair potential app-level security and performance problems.

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