SOFTWARE ENGINEERING(18CS35)

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 

Subject Code:18CS35 CIE Marks :40
SEE Marks:60
Number of Contact Hours/Week:3:0:0 Total Number of Contact Hours:40 Exam Hours:3 Hrs
CREDITS –3

Course Learning Objectives: This course (18CS35) will enable students to:

• Outline software engineering principles and activities involved in building large software programs.
• Identify ethical and professional issues and explain why they are of concern to software engineers.
• Describe the process of requirements gathering, requirements classification, requirements specification and requirements validation.
• Differentiate system models, use UML diagrams and apply design patterns.
• Discuss the distinctions between validation testing and defect testing.
• Recognize the importance of software maintenance and describe the intricacies involved in software evolution.
• Apply estimation techniques, schedule project activities and compute pricing.
• Identify software quality parameters and quantify software using measurements and metrics.
• List software quality standards and outline the practices involved.
• Recognize the need for agile software development, describe agile methods, apply agile practices and plan for agility.

Module 1

Introduction: Software Crisis, Need for Software Engineering. Professional Software Development, Software Engineering Ethics. Case Studies.
Software Processes: Models: Waterfall Model (Sec 2.1.1), Incremental Model (Sec 2.1.2) and Spiral Model (Sec 2.1.3). Process activities.
Requirements Engineering: Requirements Engineering Processes (Chap 4). Requirements Elicitation and Analysis (Sec 4.5). Functional and non-functional requirements (Sec 4.1). The software Requirements Document (Sec 4.2). Requirements Specification (Sec 4.3). Requirements validation (Sec 4.6). Requirements Management (Sec 4.7).

Module 2

System Models: Context models (Sec 5.1). Interaction models (Sec 5.2). Structural models (Sec 5.3). Behavioral models (Sec 5.4). Model-driven engineering (Sec 5.5).
Design and Implementation: Introduction to RUP (Sec 2.4), Design Principles (Chap 17). Object-oriented design using the UML (Sec 7.1). Design patterns (Sec 7.2). Implementation issues (Sec 7.3). Open source development (Sec 7.4).

Module 3

Software Testing: Development testing (Sec 8.1), Test-driven development (Sec 8.2), Release testing (Sec 8.3), User testing (Sec 8.4). Test Automation (Page no 42, 70,212, 231,444,695).
Software Evolution: Evolution processes (Sec 9.1). Program evolution dynamics (Sec 9.2).
Software maintenance (Sec 9.3). Legacy system management (Sec 9.4).

Module 4

Project Planning: Software pricing (Sec 23.1). Plan-driven development (Sec 23.2). Project scheduling (Sec 23.3): Estimation techniques (Sec 23.5). Quality management: Software quality (Sec 24.1). Reviews and inspections (Sec 24.3). Software measurement and metrics (Sec 24.4). Software standards (Sec 24.2)

Module 5

Agile Software Development: Coping with Change (Sec 2.3), The Agile Manifesto: Values and Principles. Agile methods: SCRUM (Ref “The SCRUM Primer, Ver 2.0”) and Extreme Programming (Sec 3.3). Plan-driven and agile development (Sec 3.2). Agile project management (Sec 3.4), Scaling agile methods (Sec 3.5).

Course Outcomes: The student will be able to :

• Design a software system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints.
• Assess professional and ethical responsibility
 • Function on multi-disciplinary teams
• Use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice
• Analyze, design, implement, verify, validate, implement, apply, and maintain software systems or parts of software systems

Question Paper Pattern:

• The question paper will have ten questions.
• Each full Question consisting of 20 marks
• There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
• Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
• The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.

Question Bank:

Textbooks:

1. Ian Sommerville: Software Engineering, 9th Edition, Pearson Education, 2012. (Listed topics only from Chapters 1,2,3,4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 23, and 24)
2. The SCRUM Primer, Ver 2.0, http://www.goodagile.com/scrumprimer/scrumprimer20.pdf

Reference Books:

1. Roger S. Pressman: Software Engineering-A Practitioners approach, 7th Edition, Tata McGraw Hill.
2. Pankaj Jalote: An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering, Wiley India

Web Reference for eBooks on Agile:
1. http://agilemanifesto.org/
2. http://www.jamesshore.com/Agile-Book/