Course detail

Practical Aspects of Software Design

FIT-IVSAcad. year: 2025/2026

Fundamentals of Unix philosophy and their use in programming, the role of code testing and the test-driven development, component-oriented code, performance issues, profiling, distributed version management, parallel computing, big data, practical experience of software teams.

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Why is the course tought

The course IVS was established as a preparatory course for student collaboration on research at the FIT. It provides students with insight into the entire process of SW development from planning, design, implementation and testing to final product deployment in the customer's company. The graduate will know what each stage of SW development involves and what tools are used in it, which will allow him/her to be better oriented when choosing his / her specialization and other elective courses. An essential part of the course is the preparation of students for teamwork on SW development and familiarization with version control systems, as these are basic knowledge and skills for developing any larger SW.

Exam prerequisites

At least 50 points.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Jaroslav Dytrych, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia (UPGM)

Entry knowledge

Not applicable.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

  • Mid-term test (30 points)
  • Projects (70 points in total)

Aims

To understand the process of software development in teams and to get acquainted with real applications that help to create and documenting component-based projects, to learn how to easily prototype graphical user interfaces, what are preconditions of successful free software and usability measurement.
Students will get acquainted with modern approaches to software development, having successfully completed the course, students will be able to take part in teams developing shared code, will know the tools helping the development of efficient and well-documented code as well as applications better reflecting the user's needs. Students will learn to work on projects. They will also improve their knowledge of modern development and documenting tools.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

BATH, Graham a Judy MCKAY. The software test engineer's handbook. Santa Barbara: Rocky Nook, 2008, xviii, 397 s. ISBN 978-1-933952-24-6.
Baumann, H.; Grässle, P.; Baumann, P.: UML 2.0 in Action: A project-based tutorial. Birmingham: Packt Publishing, Prosinec 2009, ISBN 1-904811-55-8. Download
Critchley, A. et al: Git® Notes for Professionals. GoalKicker.com, 2017.
Dustin Boswell, Trevor Foucher: The Art of Readable Code. O'Reily, 2010. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-art-of/9781449318482/
Fowler, M.: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (2nd Edition), 2018.
J. Pérez López, L. Ribas i Xirgo: Introduction to Software development, 2010. http://ftacademy.org/sites/ftacademy.org/files/materials/fta-m7-fs_development.pdf
Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle Agile Software Development with Scrum Addision-Wesley, 2002
Osterhage, W. W.: IT Quality Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2015. ISBN 9783662437667.
Booth, J. D.: GitHub Succinctly. Syncfusion Inc. 2016.
Pecinovský, R.: JUnit 5 : jednotkové testování na platformě Java, Grada, 2018, ISBN: 978-80-271-0733-9 (CS)
S. A. Babkin: The Practice of Parallel Programming. Create Space, 2010. https://www.createspace.com/3438465
Scott Chacon: Pro Git, 2009 http://knihy.nic.cz/files/nic/edice/scott_chacon_pro_git.pdf
STEPHENS, Matt a Doug, ROSENBERG. Testování softwaru řízené návrhem. Brno: Computer Press, 2011, 336 s. : il., portréty. ISBN 978-80-251-3607-2.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BIT Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme BIT Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Jaroslav Dytrych, Ph.D.
Ing. David Bařina, Ph.D.
Ing. Dominika Regéciová
doc. RNDr. Pavel Smrž, Ph.D.
Ing. Petr Veigend, Ph.D.
Ing. Tomáš Švec

Syllabus

  1. Introduction, practical rules for the writing of sustainable code and effective usage of IDE
  2. Software testing, TDD (Test-Driven Development) and its usage in team development
  3. Teamwork, communication, team data sharing, basics of project design and planning
  4. Distributed version control, GIT
  5. Documentation types, system documentation generated from the code, Component-based development and cross-platform libraries
  6. Code assembling, Make, Cmake a Qmake.
  7. User interfaces
  8. Issue tracking, debugging, bug tracking and QA
  9. Mid-term test
  10. Program deployment
  11. Algorithm optimization, parallelization and profiling
  12. Programming languages and paradigms, SWIG and integration of legacy code
  13. Invited experts from companies

Project

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Jaroslav Dytrych, Ph.D.
Ing. Martin Dočekal
Ing. Petr Veigend, Ph.D.
Ing. Alena Omachtová
Ing. Martin Fajčík, Ph.D.
Ing. Jan Doležal
Maksim Aparovich

Syllabus

  1. Test definition (18 points)
  2. The project focused on team development (52 points)