Software Engineering

The course shall introduce principles and techniques in software engineering, management integration concept, methods or process and software metrics. In addition, this course exposes presentation and discussion on specific software engineering method, documentation and tools. This course explains about relevant method to verify and validate prototype developed.

Rationale: This course is offered so that student has the ability to analyze and develop software engineering documentation, design solutions and systems for complex software engineering problems and working in a group culture.

Topic 1 : Introduction to Software Engineering

Topic 2: The Software Processes

• Software process models

• Process activities

• Coping with change

Topic 3: Agile Process Model

Topic 4: Project Management

• Risk management

• Managing people

• Teamwork

Topic 5: Project Planning

• Software pricing

• Plan-driven development

• Project scheduling

• Estimation techniques

Topic 6: Requirements Engineering

• Functional and non-functional requirements

• The software requirements document

• Requirement specification

• Requirements validation

Topic 7: Design and Implementation

• Analysis and Design with UML

• Introduction to UML

• Use Case Diagram

• Use Case Description

• Class Diagram

• Sequence Diagram

• Activity Diagram

• State Diagram

Topic 8: Architectural Design

• Architectural design decisions

• Architectural views

• Architectural patterns

• Application architectures

Topic 9: Software Testing

• Development testing

• Test-driven development

Topic 10: Dependability and security assurance

• Reliability testing

• Security testing

• Process assurance

Topic 11: Quality Management

• Software quality

• Software standards

• Review and inspections

• Software measurement and metrics

• Sommerville, I. [2015], “Software Engineering”.10th Edition, Addison Wesley Publication.

• Pressman, R.S. [2014], “Software Engineering”. 8th Edition, Mc-Graw-Hill Publication.

• Mall.R . [2014]. “Fundamentals of Software Engineering”, 5th Edition, PHI Publisher.

• Singh.A [2020],”Software Engineering: Question and Answer Book”. Vandana Publication

Ts. Dr. Yasmin Yaakob