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SYLLABUS

Software Engineering

Objectives: To enable the student to understand software development process and software engineering approaches with
testing techniques. Student will practice software engineering concepts using UML.

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1 Introduction to Software Engineering: The Evolving Role of Software, Software
Myths
2 A generic view of Process: Software Engineering-A Layered Technology, A process

framework, The Capability Maturity Model Integration, Process Patterns, Process
Assessment.

3 Process Models : Prescriptive Models, The Waterfall model, Incremental Process
Models : The Incremental model, The RAD model

Evolutionary Process models: Prototyping, The Spiral model, The Concurrent
Development model, A final comment on evolutionary Processes.

4 An Agile view of Process: What is Agility, Agile Process models: XP, ASD,
DSDM, Scrum, Crystal, FDD, AM.
Requirements Engineering: A Brigade to design & construction,

Requirements Engineering tasks: Inception, Elicitation, negotiation, Specification,
Validation, Requirements Management.

5 Software Engineering Practice : The Essence of practice, Core Principles, Planning

practices, Modelling practices: Analysis modelling principles, Design Modelling

principles Construction practice : Coding principles and concepts, Testing principles
Design Engineering: Design process & Design Quality. Design Concepts:

Abstraction ,Architecture, patterns, Modularity, Information hiding, Functional
independence, Refinement, Refactoring, Design Classes