Learning Objectives
The objective of the course is to study modern software engineering standards, methods, and common practices to deliver error-free codes that meet the requirements precisely.
Learning Outcome
After completion of the course students will be able to write requirement specifications, prepare design documents, analyse existing designs, prepare test cases, and analyse and estimate softwares.
Course Content
The process of software development - Process models. Software measurement – Software process improvement by metrics- Size-oriented metrics and function point metrics. Engineering of software systems - Analysis concepts and principles - Analysis modeling - Data modeling - Specification techniques for software. Design concepts and principles - Abstraction - Refinement - Modularity - Architectural design - Cohesion coupling concepts - Refactoring of designs. Object-Oriented (O-O) Approach to software design - Concepts - Design issues - Modeling techniques Design process - Design patterns. Software Testing - Principles - Designing test cases - Testing strategies - Debugging - Introduction to O-O testing. Software project planning - Effort and cost estimation techniques - Lines of Code (LOC)-based and Function-point based measures - The Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) model. Software Quality Assurance(SQA) - Software Reliability - The ISO 9000 Quality standards – Capability Maturity Model (CMM). Software Configuration Management (SCM) - process and standards.
Textbooks
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Fundamentals of Software Engineering, 2nd edition. Carlo Ghezzi, Mehdi Jazayeri, Dino Mandrioli. Publisher: Pearson. ISBN-13: 978-0133056990
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Object-Oriented Software Engineering: Practical Software Development using UML and Java. Second Edition. Timothy C. Lethbridge and Robert Laganière. Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2001. ISBN 0-07-710908-2
Past Offerings
- Offered in July-Dec, 2018 by Mrinal
Course Metadata
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Course Title | Software Engineering |
| Course Code | CS4400 |
| Course Credits | 3-0-0-3 |
| Course Category | PMT |
| Approved on | Senate of IIT Palakkad |