SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (BCS755C)

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Course Code BCS755C 
CIE Marks 50
Teaching Hours/Week (L:T:P:S) 3:0:0:0 
SEE Marks 50
Total Hours of Pedagogy 50 
Total Marks 100
Credits 04 
Exam Hours 3
Examination type (SEE) Theory

Module-1

Software and Software Engineering: The nature of Software, The unique nature of WebApps,

Software Engineering, The software Process, Software Engineering Practice, Software Myths.

Process Models: A generic process model, Process assessment and improvement, Prescriptive process

models: Waterfall model, Incremental process models, Evolutionary process models, Concurrent

models, Specialized process models. Unified Process , Personal and Team process models

Textbook 1: Chapter 1: 1.1 to 1.6, Chapter 2: 2.1 to 2.5

Module-2

Understanding Requirements: Requirements Engineering, Establishing the ground work, Eliciting

Requirements, Developing use cases, Building the requirements model, Negotiating Requirements,

Validating Requirements.

Requirements Modeling Scenarios, Information and Analysis classes: Requirement Analysis,

Scenario based modeling, UML models that supplement the Use Case, Data modeling Concepts, ClassBased Modeling.

Requirement Modeling Strategies : Flow oriented Modeling , Behavioral Modeling.

Textbook 1: Chapter 5: 5.1 to 5.7, Chapter 6: 6.1 to 6.5, Chapter 7: 7.1 to 7.3

Module-3

Agile Development: What is Agility?, Agility and the cost of change. What is an agile Process?, Extreme

Programming (XP), Other Agile Process Models, A tool set for Agile process .

Principles that guide practice: Software Engineering Knowledge, Core principles, Principles that guide

each framework activity.

Textbook 1: Chapter 3: 3.1 to 3.6, Chapter 4: 4.1 to 4.3

Module-4

Software Design: Design within the context of software engineering, Design process and quality, Design

concepts: abstraction, modularity, architecture, patterns.

Architectural Design: Architectural styles and patterns, reference architectures, component-level

design, designing class-based components, conducting component-level design, design for reuse.

Textbook 1:Chapter 8: 8.1–8.6, Chapter 9: 9.1–9.5

Module-5

Software Testing: Introduction to software testing, Strategic approach, Test strategies for conventional

and object-oriented software, Validation testing, System testing, White-box and Black-box testing, Basis

Path Testing, Control structure testing.

Software Quality: Concepts of quality, Software quality assurance, Reviews, Software reliability and

metrics.

Textbook 1: Chapter 14: Sections 14.1 to 14.5,Chapter 15: Sections 15.1 to 15.5, Chapter 19:

Sections 19.1 to 19.5

Suggested Learning Resources:

Textbook

Roger S. Pressman: Software Engineering – A Practitioner’s Approach, 7th Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 2010.