Software Engineering Methodology

Master 2023/2024

Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'

Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'

Type: Elective course (System and Software Engineering)

Area of studies: Software Engineering

Delivered by: School of Software Engineering

Where: Faculty of Computer Science

When: 1 year, 1 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Elena Y. Pesotskaya, Hadi Saleh

Master’s programme: Software and Systems Engineering

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 42

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Abstract

The course is taught to the students of the Master’s Program «System and Software Engineering (SSE) » at Faculty of Computer Science of the National Research University - Higher School of Economics. It is 1 module course, which is delivered in the first module of the first academic year. Number of credits is 3. Total course length is 114 academic hours including 56 auditory hours (16 Lecture (L) hours and 26 Seminar (S) hours) and 72 Self-study (SS) hours. Academic control includes in-class tasks, a homework, a control work, and exam at the end of second module. The course ‘Software engineering methodology’ presents the engineering discipline which is concerned with all aspects of software production from the early stages of system specification through to maintaining the system after it has gone into use. The main objective of the training course is to examine and discuss with students fundamentals and principles of Software Engineering (SE), get familiar with common methods and standards of SE, development and evolution of complex multiversion and replicated software solutions. The course is aimed to help students to develop skills that will enable them to construct software of high quality, reliable, and that is reasonably easy to understand, modify and maintain.

Learning Objectives

Study the place and role of software engineering, place it in a broader systems context and present the concept of software engineering processes and management.
Learn the processes, techniques and deliverables that are associated with requirements engineering, system modeling, formal specification
Focus on techniques for software verification, testing, critical systems validation and further documentation
Discover the importance of management topics in software engineering: managing people, cost estimation, quality management, process improvement and configuration management.
Design and experiment with software prototypes, Select and use software metrics.
Communicate effectively through oral and written reports, and software documentation
Demonstrate professionalism including continued learning and professional activities.
Successfully assume a variety of roles in teams of diverse membership.
Have an ability to work with other people in a team, communicating computing ideas effectively in speech and in writing;
Build solutions using different technologies, architectures and life-cycle approaches in the context of different organizational structures.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Be able to design a software system, write document the implementation of a software system
Be able to design process models
Be able to develop and apply testing strategies for software applications
Be able to discuss the concepts of software products and software development processes
Be able to evaluate Software maintenance and maintenance cost factors
Be able to perform the analysis of system requirements and the production of system specifications
Be able to perform the qualitative and quantitive analysis, develop risk management planning and the planning process
Be able to provide Quality monitoring and control
Be able to suggest appropriate architecture style
Be able to use CASE tools to support configuration management processes
Be able to write a test plan
Know how to define CASE tools and software development environments
Know how to develop a software Project
Know how to develop and write a software project proposal
Know main tasks undertaken by risk managers, risk management planning and the planning process
Know requirements validation and the role of requirements reviews
Know software configuration management process
Know software cost estimation techniques, algorithmic cost modeling
Know software costs structure and software engineering methods introduction
Know software process models
Know software testing guidelines and main tools and techniques
Know the benefits of software reuse and some reuse problems
Know the concepts of software products and software development processes
Know the document software testing
Know the importance of process visibility and software design techniques, Design process models Able to: design a software system, write document the implementation of a software system Understand: UML design process brief introduction
Know the risk management process and objectives
Know the software metrics
Understand configuration management documenting and measuring
Understand difference between software engineering and computer science
Understand factors that influence individual motivation
Understand how to develop and write a Software Requirements Specification
Understand process iteration: incremental delivery and spiral development
Understand quality management process and key quality management activities
Understand software evolution processes and ways of software reuse implementation
Understand specification in the software process: formal, sub-system, behavioral specification
Understand system design evolution and development
Understand the planning of software inspections
Understand the principles of object-oriented software construction
Understand the results of software testing, how to measure test results
Understand the risk monitoring and control
Understand the UML design process

Course Contents

Software engineering fundamentals
Software process models
Project management activities
Software requirements
Requirements engineering processes
System models and architecture
System design
Software development
Software reuse and evolution
Verification and validation
Software Testing
Managing people and cost estimation
Software risk management
Quality management, process improvement
Configuration management

Assessment Elements

Practice Activities (PA)
Project (P)
Test (T)
Exam (E)

Interim Assessment

2023/2024 1st module
0.1 * Test (T) + 0.2 * Exam (E) + 0.2 * Practice Activities (PA) + 0.5 * Project (P)

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Bharat Bhushan Agarwal, & Sumit Prakash Tayal. (2016). Software Engineering. [N.p.]: Laxmi Publications Pvt Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1227282
Dooley, J. (2017). Software Development, Design and Coding : With Patterns, Debugging, Unit Testing, and Refactoring (Vol. Second edition). [Berkeley, Californial?]: Apress. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1641452
Layton, M. (2018). Scrum For Dummies (Vol. Second edition). Hoboken, NJ: For Dummies. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1793717
McWherter, J., & Gowell, S. (2012). Professional Mobile Application Development. Indianapolis, Ind: Wrox. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=476649
Myers, G. J., Badgett, T., & Sandler, C. (2012). The Art of Software Testing (Vol. 3rd ed). Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=396276
Schmidt, R. (2013). Software Engineering : Architecture-driven Software Development. Waltham, MA: Morgan Kaufmann. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=515418

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Gharbi, M., Koschel, A., & Rausch, A. (2019). Software Architecture Fundamentals : A Study Guide for the Certified Professional for Software Architecture® – Foundation Level – ISAQB Compliant. Heidelberg: dpunkt.verlag. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2036069
Mitra, T. (2016). Practical Software Architecture : Moving From System Context to Deployment. New York: IBM Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1601527
Otero, C. E. (2012). Software Engineering Design : Theory and Practice. Boca Raton: Auerbach Publications. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1728920
Unhelkar, B. (2013). The Art of Agile Practice : A Composite Approach for Projects and Organizations. Boca Raton: Auerbach Publications. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=511717

Authors

SALEKH Khadi Mukhammed

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