10079 (v.3) Software Engineering 501
| Area: | Department of Computing |
| Credits: | 25.0 |
| Contact Hours: | 3.0 |
| Lecture: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
| Tutorial: | 1 x 1 Hours Weekly |
| Syllabus: | Life cycle models. Requirements analysis and specification. Structured analysis - work flow diagrams, data flow diagrams. Structured design - structured charts. Win A&D - introduction, structured analysis, structured design, code generation. Software design concepts. Silver bullets / CASE / maintenance. Project management - estimation, scheduling. Implementation and testing. |
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| Unit Outcomes: | On successful completion of this unit students will have gained familiarity with basic Software Engineering concepts and techniques including life cycle models, requirements analysis and specification (particularly structured analysis), software design (particularly structured design), implementation, testing, and maintenance, software project management and computer aided software engineering. |
| Text and references listed above are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information. |
| Unit References: | Mall, R., (1999), 'Fundamentals of Software Engineering', Prentice Hall, India. Pfleeger, S., (2001), 'Software Engineering, Theory and Practice', 2nd ed, New York. Prentice Hall. Somerville, I., (2001), 'Software Engineering', 6th ed, Addison-Wesley, Upper Saddle River. Up-to-date notes and exercises will be available each week as PDF files from http://www.cs.curtin.edu.au/units/se251 or /usr/units/se251/ |
| Unit Texts: | R. Pressman, (2000), 'Software Engineering: a practitioner's approach', 5th ed, New York. McGraw-Hill. |
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| Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Mid-Semester 20%. Assignment 20%. Final Examination 60%. To pass the unit students must attend a minimum of 10 (ten) practicals/tutorials and the mid-semester test, complete and submit the assignment as part of a group, obtain a mark of at least 50% in the final examination and obtain an overall mark of at least 50% for the unit. This is by grade/mark assessment. |
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | | | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y | | | |
Current as of: February 2, 2004
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