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

Computer Graphics and Multimedia

Objectives

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