Software Programming Fundamentals: Best Practices for Maintaining Code

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

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Overview/Description
Maintaining code after you have a working application is an important phase for the longevity of your program, and can assist in speedy development of future projects. This course will teach you how to optimize existing code through refactoring, as well as how to perform code inspections to locate defects. In addition, you'll learn how to test and debug your existing code to eliminate potential errors not yet discovered.

Target Audience
This path is targeted toward managers and developers wishing to learn the best practices used in the design and development of software applications. Working knowledge of the software creation process and software programming may be beneficial.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
1.5

Lesson Objectives

Software Programming Fundamentals: Best Practices for Maintaining Code

start the course

describe what refactoring is and recognize the benefits of performing code refactoring

identify code conditions that can benefit from refactoring

list the steps involved when performing refactoring on source code

identify best practices for refactoring

describe how refactoring can be implemented to improve methods in your source code

recognize techniques for refactoring program functionality when working with objects

describe refactoring techniques to simplify how your program works with data

describe how conditional statements in your source code can be optimized with refactoring

recognize how refactoring can help optimize calls to methods in your source code

describe how to improve generalization in object-oriented programming through refactoring

list the benefits and categories of refactoring code

identify the benefits of performing maintenance on source code

identify the types of peer reviews and describe the benefits of performing inspections on your source code

list the roles and responsibilities of the participants involved in peer review inspections

list the stages of a software inspection and describe the function of each

describe the sources and effects of errors within your software application

list and describe the most common types of errors caused by poor programming

identify the sources of errors introduced by code improvements and how best to minimize these errors

describe how functionality errors occur and how to minimize them

list the various methods for testing your programs

describe the purpose and principles of unit testing

describe the techniques for detecting bugs when testing your programs

list the steps involved when debugging your source code

identify the benefits of maintaining, testing, and debugging source code

Course Number:
sd_spfm_a04_it_enus

Expertise Level
Beginner