4- Course Content :-

 Topic

Introduction :-

• The emergence of software engineering.
• The term software engineering.          
• Quality attributes of software products.
• Software quality attributes.    
• The importance of quality criteria.      
• The effects of quality criteria on each    other.           
• Quality assurance measures.   
• The phases of a software project.       
• The classical sequential software life-cycle  model. 
• The waterfall model.
• The prototyping-oriented life-cycle model.
• The spiral model.        
• The object-oriented life-cycle model .
• The object-and prototyping-oriented life- cycle model.

Software Specification :-

• Structure and contents of the requirements definition .      
• Quality criteria for requirements definition.   
• Fundamental problems in defining requirements.  
• Algebraic specification.          
• Model-based specification.     
• References and selected reading.

Software Design :-

• Design techniques .     
• Top-down design.       
• Bottom-up design .     
• Systems design.          
• Design decomposition.           
• User interface design. 
• Function-oriented design.       
• Object-oriented design.
• The Abbott Method.   
• Design of class hierarchies.    
• Generalization.

Implementation :-

• Programming environments.   
• Programming style .    
• Portability and reuse . 
• Software portability.   
• Machine Architecture dependencies. 
• Operating system dependencies.        
• Software reuse .          
• Computer-aided software engineering.
  • CASE workbenches.         
  • Text editing systems.
  • Language processing systems.
• Incremental implementation.

Software Verification :-

• Test methods. 
• Verification of algorithms .    
• Static program analysis.
• Dynamic testing.         
• Black-box and white-box testing.      
• Top-down and bottom-up testing.      
• Mathematical program verification..    
• Debugging.

Documentation :-

• User documentation.  
• System documentation .         
• Document quality.      
• Document maintenance .        
• Document portability.

Project Management :-

• The goal and tasks of project management.
• Difficulties in project management.
• Cost estimation.
• Project organization.
• Hierarchical organizational model.
• The chief programmer team.
• Software maintenance.
• Maintenance costs.
• System restructuring.
• Program evolution dynamics.

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