Course Objectives

This course aims to:

• Provide a comprehensive understanding of the software development process.
• Introduce various software development models and methodologies.
• Teach students to analyze, design, implement, and test software systems.
• Emphasize the importance of software quality, maintenance, and project management.

Course Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Apply software engineering principles and practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
2. Elicit and analyze software requirements.
3. Design software systems using appropriate modeling techniques.
4. Implement and test software components and systems.
5. Manage software projects effectively.
6. Appreciate the importance of software quality and maintenance.

Detailed Syllabus

Module 1: Introduction to Software Engineering

• The evolving role of software
• Software characteristics
• Software engineering challenges
• Software myths
• A generic view of process: framework activities and umbrella activities.
• Process models: Waterfall model, incremental process models, evolutionary process models, spiral model, concurrent models, component based development.
• Specialized process models: Formal methods model, aspect oriented software development.

Module 2: Software Requirements

• Functional and non-functional requirements
• User requirements
• System requirements
• Interface specification
• The software requirements document.
• Requirement Engineering Process: Feasibility studies, Requirements elicitation and analysis, Requirements validation, Requirements management.

Module 3: Design Engineering

• Design process and design quality
• Design concepts: Abstraction, architecture, patterns, separation of concerns, modularity, information hiding, functional independence, refinement, aspects, refactoring, Object-Oriented design concepts
• Design Modeling: Data Design Elements, Architectural Design Elements, Interface Design Elements, Component-level Design Elements, Deployment-level Design Elements
• Architectural design: Architectural styles, Architectural design, Architectural mapping using Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs)

Module 4: Testing Strategies & Tactics

• Software testing fundamentals
• Internal and external views of testing, white box testing: Basis path testing, control structure testing
• Black Box testing: Boundary value analysis, equivalence class partitioning, state based testing, graph based testing, comparison testing, orthogonal array testing
• Testing for specialized environments: OO testing, client/server, web applications, real time systems
• Debugging process, testing tools.

Module 5: Software Project Management

• Estimation: project planning process
• Metrics for project size estimation: LOC and FP based estimation, make/buy decision
• COCOMO model, Risk management, Project scheduling and tracking, Project management tools.

Course Outcomes

The students will be able to:

1. CO1: Understand the need and importance of software engineering principles and practices.
2. CO2: Apply requirement engineering practices for analyzing, documenting, and managing software requirements.
3. CO3: Apply software design principles and patterns for designing software solutions.
4. CO4: Develop and apply various testing techniques to ensure software quality.
5. CO5: Understand and apply software project management techniques.

Text Books

• Software Engineering, A Practitioner’s Approach by Roger S. Pressman, McGraw-Hill Education, 7/e.
• Software Engineering by Ian Sommerville, Pearson Education, 9/e.

Reference Books

• Software Engineering: Theory and Practice by Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Pearson Education, 4/e.
• Software Engineering by Pankaj Jalote, Wiley India, 3/e.

List of Experiments

1. Develop the requirement analysis of Library Management System using various elicitation techniques.
2. Prepare Software Requirement Specification (SRS) for Library Management System using IEEE format.
3. Perform Data Flow Diagram (DFD) modelling for Library Management System up to 2 levels and Object Modelling using UML.
4. Develop Test Cases for unit testing and integration testing for Library Management System.
5. Develop a Test Plan document for Library Management System.
6. Prepare a Risk Management Plan for Library Management System.
7. Estimate cost of Library Management System using COCOMO model.
8. Prepare a Gantt Chart for Library Management System using any Project Management tool.

Course Outcomes

The students will be able to:

1. CO1: Identify and apply appropriate software engineering tools and techniques for a given problem.
2. CO2: Analyze and document software requirements using various elicitation techniques.
3. CO3: Design software solutions using appropriate modeling techniques.
4. CO4: Develop and execute test cases for various testing levels.
5. CO5: Plan and manage software projects using project management tools.