CSC 380 - 3 Semester Hours

Software Engineering

Techniques for developing large software systems are presented. Formal and semi-formal languages for specification and design of software, verification, and configuration management techniques are discussed.

CSC 241

This course is intended to provide students with an engineering perspective to software design.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Develop a software application based upon a set of requirements.
2. Manage and/or work within a group development effort
3. Verify and validate software components
4. Create and communicate designs using formal and semi-formal notations
5. Use software development tools to enhance design, testing, and configuration.
6. Communicate and critique designs among peers
7. Apply programming and analytic techniques from core computer science and math courses in the service of constructing useful software

1. Software Developemnt Process
   1. Classic and Agile approaches
   2. Managing group development
   3. Theory and practice of versioning, configuration, and build tools
   4. Schedule estimation and monitoring
2. Requirements
   1. Use Cases and related techniques
   2. Working with clients and users
   3. Features and non-functional requirements
3. Design
   1. UML and related design and specification notations
   2. Quality and metrics: modularity, abstraction, complexity
   3. Common Design Patterns
4. Quality Assurance
   1. Developing and monitoring quality objectives
   2. Design and code reviews
   3. Functionality and correctness testing
   4. Unit, integration, and regression testing
   5. Test coverage and test plans
   6. Using test tools and frameworks
   7. Performance, reliability, security, and safety testing
   8. Human factors evaluation
   9. Formal and semi-formal analytic verification
   10. Test automation and bug detection tools

1. Lectures
2. Discussion
3. In-class reviews
4. Projects

1. One or more projects covering all aspects of software development.
2. Class presentations

1. Project participation and milestones, and associated presentations.
2. Oral or written evaluations or exams assessing proficiency in underlying concepts.

No additional resources are needed.

I Sommerville, Software Engineering, Addison-Wesley, 2004.

E. Stiller and C. Leblanc, Project-based software engineering, Addison-Wesley, 2002.

M. Fowler UML Distilled, Addison-Wesley, 2003.