Software development life cycle: Various software development life cycle (SDLC) models; Requirements analysis and specification: Requirements gathering and analysis, software requirements specification, formal systems specification. [8 hours]

Software Design: Outcome of a design process, cohesion and coupling, layered arrangement of modules, approaches to software design, function-oriented software design: overview of SA/SD methodology, structured analysis, DFDs, structured design, detailed design, design review, object-oriented software design: UML diagrams, use case modelling, unified process, OOD goodness criteria, Coding: Coding standards and guidelines, code review, code walk through and inspection. [10 hours]

Testing: unit testing, black-box testing, white-box testing, debugging, integration testing, system testing, regression testing, testing of O-O software. [7 hours]

User interface design: types of user interfaces, component-based GUI development; CASE Tools, Software maintenance; Software reuse. [5 hours]

Software Project Management: project planning, project estimation, COCOMO, Halstead’s Software Science, project scheduling, staffing, risk management, configuration management; Software reliability and Quality management: Software reliability, Statistical testing, software quality, ISO 9000, SEI CMM, PSP, Six sigma. [6 hours]

To discuss the software engineering discipline, its evolution, impact and emergence of software engineering and explain the development and use of different software life cycle models for real-life industrial applications.

To explain various requirement elicitation, analysis and specification techniques, discuss various software design methodologies, and demonstrate various coding standards and guidelines.

To discuss different software testing and debugging strategies.

To demonstrate different user interface design methods and computer aided software engineering (CASE) tools in the software development process, discuss different types of software maintenance, software engineering and re-engineering activities and explain how to reuse different components of software systems.

To discuss different aspects of software project management, risk management and configuration management along with software reliability metrics and software quality management techniques & standards.

After reading this subject, students will be able to:
Choose and apply a proper life cycle model and prepare the SRS document for different real-life industrial projects.

Perform designing of different real-life industrial software using function-oriented approach (DFDs) and object-oriented approach (UML diagrams), code them.

Test the developed software using different software testing strategies.

Apply different user interface design methods and computer aided software engineering (CASE) tools in the software development process, apply different types of software maintenance, software engineering and re-engineering activities and reuse different components of software systems in other similar applications.

Apply different software project management activities and software quality management techniques / standards in real-life industrial projects and estimate the reliability of these industrial projects.

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R. Mall, Fundamentals of Software Engineering, PHI Learning , 2018

I. Sommerville, Software Engineering, Pearson Education , 2006

A. Behferooz and F. J. Hudson, Software Engineering Fundamentals, Oxford University Press , 2000

1. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
2. International Conference on Software Engineering