Syllabus: CSCI 472 - Software Engineering

Course Description:

Ideas and techniques for designing, developing, and modifying large software systems. Object-oriented and agile techniques. Topics include software specification, design, testing, debugging, version control, documentation, and maintenance, and team implementation of a software project.

Prerequisites:

CSCI 2210 - Object-oriented Programming.

Textbook:

• Software Engineering: Theory and Practice, 4th edition, ISBN-13: 9780136061694.

Course Learning Objectives:

• understand and explain the activities and structure of different styles of software development processes, including waterfall, spiral, iterative, and agile methodologies,
• apply requirements, knowledge, and techniques to create functional and non-functional requirements for a software system,
• apply high and low-level design ideas to create an object-oriented design of a software system,
• use good design and programming ideas to implement individual and team software systems in compiled object-oriented programming languages,
• apply white and black box testing techniques and tools to individual and team software development,
• use UML class diagrams(and sequence diagrams) to capture aspects of system design and/or requirements (domain),
• and to use practical software development tools, including version control systems, automated build tools, and testing tools.

Course Topics:

• Overall Software Development Life Cycle and Agile Methodology
• Requirements Specification
• System Design
• Programming
• Software Testing
• Deployment and Maintenance

Course Grading

Attendance	15%
Reading Homework	5%
Programming Assignments	20%
Group Project	25%
Exams	40%