Introduction to Software Engineering

Description

Software engineering is a critically important area for the future of application and/or systems development. Students must learn about software engineering to be able to create more complex software systems. Software engineering is now such a huge area. This course provides an introduction to software engineering disciplines with emphasis on software life cycle, process models, requirements specification, architecture requirements, software design, rapid software development, verification, validation and testing of software. Thus, it gives students a broad view on the whole software development life cycle and introduces techniques and standard documents used in each stage of the cycle. Moreover, during the course students undergo a team-based project with emphasis on the requirements, analysis and design phase. They use the unified modeling language as a method to model their systems.

Program

Information Systems Program

Objectives

• 1. Understanding the software engineering process and different process models and how to choose between them.
  2. How to elicit requirements from a client and specify them.
  3. Design in the large, including principled choice of a software architecture.
  4. Develop a system design using UML notation.
  5. Understanding good coding practices, including documentation, contracts, regression tests and daily builds.
  6. Various quality assurance techniques, including unit testing, functional testing, and automated analysis tools.
  7. Understanding of the role of project management including planning, scheduling, risk management, etc.