SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (CST-015) UTU

Introduction, software applications, importance of software evolution of software, Software Components, Software Characteristics, Software Crisis & myths. Software Engineering paradigms: introduction, principles & Processes, Software Quality Attributes. Comparison between software engineering & computer science, & software engineering & Engineering. Some terminologies: product & process, deliverables, and milestones, measures, metrics& indicators. Programs & software products. Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Models: Water Fall Model, Prototype Model, RAD Model, Spiral Model, Evolutionary Development Models, Iterative Enhancement Models.

Structured analysis, object-oriented analysis, software requirement specification, and validation.

software design fundamentals, design methodology (structured design and object-oriented design), design verification, monitoring, and control coding.

Testing fundamentals, white box and black box testing, software testing strategies: unit testing, integration testing, validation testing, system testing, debugging.

Metric and specification, fault avoidance and tolerance, exception handling, and defensive programming.Software Maintenance – maintenance characteristics, maintainability, maintenance tasks, maintenance side effects. CASE tools, software certification- requirement, types of certifications, third-party certification. Software Re-Engineering, reverse software Engineering. Software Configuration Management Activities, Change Control Process, Software Version Control, CASE: introduction, levels of case, architecture, case building blocks, objectives, case repository, characteristics of case tools, categories, Estimation of Various Parameters such as Cost, Efforts, Schedule/Duration, Constructive Cost Models (COCOMO), Resource Allocation Models, Software Risk Analysis and Management.