CS6403 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING | syllabus

                                         CS6403 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING L T P C
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OBJECTIVES:

The student should be made to:
 Understand the phases in a software project
 Understand fundamental concepts of requirements engineering and Analysis Modelling.
 Understand the major considerations for enterprise integration and deployment.
 Learn various testing and maintenance measures

UNIT I      SOFTWARE PROCESS AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT                   (9)

Introduction to Software Engineering, Software Process, Perspective and Specialized Process
Models – Software Project Management: Estimation – LOC and FP Based Estimation, COCOMO
Model – Project Scheduling – Scheduling, Earned Value Analysis - Risk Management.

UNIT II     REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION                        (9)

Software Requirements: Functional and Non-Functional, User requirements, System requirements,
Software Requirements Document – Requirement Engineering Process: Feasibility Studies,
Requirements elicitation and analysis, requirements validation, requirements management-Classical
analysis: Structured system Analysis, Petri Nets- Data Dictionary.

UNIT III    SOFTWARE DESIGN                                                                              (9)
 
Design process – Design Concepts-Design Model– Design Heuristic – Architectural Design –
Architectural styles, Architectural Design, Architectural Mapping using Data Flow- User Interface
Design: Interface analysis, Interface Design –Component level Design: Designing Class based
components, traditional Components.

UNIT IV     TESTING AND IMPLEMENTATION                                                  (9)

Software testing fundamentals-Internal and external views of Testing-white box testing- basis path
testing-control structure testing-black box testing- Regression Testing – Unit Testing – Integration
Testing – Validation Testing – System Testing And Debugging – Software Implementation
Techniques: Coding practices-Refactoring.

UNIT V      PROJECT MANAGEMENT                                                                  (9)
Estimation – FP Based, LOC Based, Make/Buy Decision, COCOMO II - Planning – Project Plan,
Planning Process, RFP Risk Management – Identification, Projection, RMMM - Scheduling and
Tracking –Relationship between people and effort, Task Set & Network, Scheduling, EVA - Process
and Project Metrics.

                                                                                                                           TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:

At the end of the course, the student should be able to
 Identify the key activities in managing a software project.
 Compare different process models.
 Concepts of requirements engineering and Analysis Modeling.
 Apply systematic procedure for software design and deployment.
 Compare and contrast the various testing and maintenance.

TEXT BOOK:

1. Roger S. Pressman, “Software Engineering – A Practitioner’s Approach”, Seventh Edition,
Mc Graw-Hill International Edition, 2010.

REFERENCES:

1. Ian Sommerville, “Software Engineering”, 9th Edition, Pearson Education Asia, 2011.
2. Rajib Mall, “Fundamentals of Software Engineering”, Third Edition, PHI Learning Private
Limited ,2009.
3. Pankaj Jalote, “Software Engineering, A Precise Approach”, Wiley India, 2010.
4. Kelkar S.A., “Software Engineering”, Prentice Hall of India Pvt Ltd, 2007.
5. Stephen R.Schach, “Software Engineering”, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited,
2007.
6. http://nptel.ac.in/.

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