SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

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Learning Outcomes

Explains the concept of software engineering.
Understands what software engineering is.
Understands the significance of software engineering.
Gets information about the basic concepts in software engineering.
Understands some ethical and professional issues that are important for software engineering.
Understands the idea of software process.
Understands the concept of software processes and software process models.
Understands the generic process models and where they can be used.
Understands the contents of software requirements engineering, software development, testing and evolution.
Gets information about the case technology that is used to support software process activities.
Gets information about some of the notations defined in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and how these notations are used to develop system models.
Learns software system requirements and different types of them.
Learns the concept of user requirements.
Learns the concept of system requirements.
Learns how requirements are organised in a software requirements document.
Learns the importance of requirements validation and how requirement reviews are used.
Understands the significance of requirement management.
Understands the idea of software design process.
Understands the architectural design process.
Learns how a software design can be represented using a set of interacting objects.
Learns the most important activities in a general object-oriented design process.
Learns the concept of a real-time system.
Learns a number of user interface design principles and in which cases these are most appropriate.
Learns different approaches to software development.
Learns how an iterative, incremental software development approach leads to faster delivery of more useful software.
Learns the differences between agile development methods and software development methods that rely on documented specifications and design.
Learns the principles, practices and some of the limitations of extreme programming.
Learns how prototyping can be used to help resolve requirements and design uncertainties.
Understands the process of software testing and bug tracking.
Understands the importance of software testing.
Learns a range of testing techniques.
Understands the principles of system testing and component testing.
Learns how to generate different system test cases and scenarios.
Understands the essential characteristics of bug tracking.
Understands the importance of release management and software reuse.
Understands that change is inevitable if software sytstems are to remain useful.
Learns the benefits and problems of reusing software when developing new systems.
Learns how to implement software reuse.
Learns how to develop a big application by composing small applications.
Learns about different types of software maintenance.
Learns how to manage releases.
Attends in a group project.
Applies all phases of software process in a real project.
Experiences to work in a team.
Understands the need for project planning in all software projects.
Understands the significance of project scheduling.
Understands the importance of version control systems and learns to use subversion.
Understands the importance of bug tracking and learns to write test scenarios.