12335 (v.5) Software Engineering 351

Area:	Department of Computing
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	3.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Practical:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	8934 (v.8) Software Engineering 252 or any previous version
Syllabus:	Quality, safety and reliability from the standpoint of ethics and professional responsibility. Evolving and assessing a mature quality management system (ISO 9000:2000, CMM, CMM-I). 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. Software reuse and the impact on cost and quality. The use of graphical modelling languages and formal specification techniques (Z, DFD, UML) to overcome difficulties communicating synchronisation, timing issues in real time systems and facilitating formal reasoning.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	020103 Programming
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Categorised *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2008	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 1	Y
2008	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