Introduction to Software Engineering Course Outline

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Introduction to Software EngineeringCourse
Outline

• Shih-Kun Huang
• skhuang_at_csie.nctu.edu.tw
• Office EC514
• Lab EC329
• Phone 54721

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Motivation

• Software Cost
• Software Quality Concerns
• Safety, Security, Robustness
• Why Outsourcing ?
• Y2K stories

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Textbook and References

• Textbook Ian Sommerville. Software Engineering,
  7th edition. Addison Wesley. 2004. ISBN
  0-321-21026-3
• http//www.software-engin.com/
• References
• Roger S. Pressman. Software Engineering a
  practitioners approach, 6th edition.
  McGRAW-HILL. 2005.
• Edward Yourdon, Decline Fall of the American
  Programmer, Prentice Hall, Inc. 1993.

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Course Outline

• Introduction (FAQs about SE)
• Software Processes
• Requirements
• Design
• Verification and Validation
• Project Management
• Other Topics

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Software Processes

• Activities concern about Software Development
• Software Specification
• Design
• Implementation
• Validation (what customer wants, Testing, Quality
  Assurance)
• Software Evolution (must evolve to meeting
  changing needs of customers, maintenance)
• Process Models
• Waterfall model, evolutionary development
  (concurrent activities), component-based software
  engineering (design with reuse)
• CASE tools for aiding the evolving of processes

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Requirements

• Detailed Descriptions of what the system should
  do.
• Functional (service provided) and non-functional
  requirements (constraints)
• User Requirements (external behavior of the
  system)
• System Requirements (starting points for system
  design)

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Design

• Architecture Design
• Subsystem identifications
• Subsystem Control and Communication
• Output the Software Architecture
• Object-oriented Design
• Design as a set of interacting objects
• User interface Design
• Interface code constitutes the major part of
  system
• Judging the system from UI instead of
  Functionality
• External Behaviors of the system

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Verification and Validation

• Validation Building the right product ?
• Software meets the users expectations
• Verification Building the product right ?
• Software conforms to the specification
• Software Testing
• Formal Methods

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Project Management

• Project Scheduling
• Software Metrics
• Cost Estimation
• Quality Management
• Risk Management
• Change Management

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Other Issues

• Software Outsourcing
• Open source Software Engineering
• Building for Trustworthy
• Component-based development

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Grading Policy

• Mid-term(T1) and Final term exam(T2)
• Term Project (P) (4 members a group)
• Homework (H)
• G1 30 (T1), 30(T2), 30(P), 10(H)
• G2 20 (T1), 20(T2), 50(P), 10(H)
• Max(G1, G2)

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Term Project

• Register an account in sourceforge.net or
  openfoundry.org
• Propose a software system to be developed (either
  from scratch or the existing GPL projects)
• Evaluate the project from the analysis, design,
  and various documents among the processes

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Notes

• Please ensure your correct E-mail in
  cos.adm.nctu.edu.tw.
• Ensure your valid login in e2.nctu.edu.tw.