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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

12335 (v.6) Software Engineering 300

Area: Department of Computing
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Practical: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 8934 (v.9) Software Engineering 200 or any previous version
Syllabus: This unit contains in-depth coverage of specialised software engineering topics with a focus on managing quality, reliability, and safety, and the verification and validation of software-based systems. Requirements engineering and real-time system analysis using formal methods and graphical modelling languages are also presented in the context of managing project quality, safety and reliability. Specific Syllabus topics include the following: Critical systems concepts, specification, development and validation. Processes for verification and validation of software-based systems. Processes for managing safety and reliability. Strategies for improving reliability using fault tolerance in software-based systems. The use of graphical modelling languages and formal specification techniques (Z, UML) to overcome difficulties communicating synchronization and timing issues in real time systems and facilitating formal reasoning. Evolving and assessing a mature quality management system (ISO 9000:2000, CMM, CMM-I).
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 020103 Programming
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2012 Sri Lanka Inst Info Tech Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External