Introduction about the Course

CSI 1007 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES

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D R . B .K A L A AVAT H I
P R O F E SSO R , D EPA R T M E N T O F IO T
S C O P E ,VIT
VELLORE
K A L A AVAT H I.B @ VIT.A C .IN

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CSI 1007 SOFTWARE
ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES
LTPC
2023

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Objectives
1. To introduce the essential software engineering
concepts involved in developing software products and
components
2. To impart development skills during design,
implementation and testing of reliable software systems
across various disciplines
3. To familiarize engineering practices and standards
used in developing software products and components

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Expected Course Outcomes

On completion of this course, students should be able to:

1. Apply the principles of Software engineering methodology
during software development and deployment process.
2. Document various processes like Requirement Engineering,
Design and Testing.
3. Demonstrate an ability to use the techniques and tools
necessary for significant application domains
4. Apply software testing and quality knowledge and engineering
methods for various applications
5. Analyze the effectiveness of managing software projects
through various techniques like Estimations, Scheduling and
Quality Models
6. Apply benchmarking standards in process and in product.
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Modules
Module:1- Introduction
Software Engineering- Need, Importance and its
characteristics - Software Process- Generic process
model-Prescriptive process model-specialized, unified
process-Agile development-Agile Process- Extreme
Programming- Other agile Process models-Software
engineering Knowledge core Principles-Principles that
guide each framework Activity.

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Module:2-Software Requirement
Analysis
Requirements Engineering-Establishing the Groundwork-
Eliciting Requirements- Developing use cases-Building the
requirements model-Negotiating, validating Requirements-
Requirements Analysis-Requirements Modeling Strategies.
Specifying Requirements: functional and non-functional
requirements; specification exercise. Managing the
Requirements Process: methods which provide a structure for
co-operation between different stake holders. Prototyping: The
role of prototyping in requirements techniques for prototyping.
Requirements for Future Technologies: Computer Supported
Co-operative Work (CSCW); networked multi-media systems.

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Module:3- Design

Design concepts and principles - Abstraction -

Refinement - Modularity – Cohesion & coupling,
Architectural design, Detailed Design – Transaction &
Transformation, Refactoring of designs, Object-
oriented Design User-Interface Design; Object
Oriented Design Concepts and Diagrams - Use Case
Diagrams - Class Diagrams - Interaction Diagrams -
State chart Diagrams - Activity Diagrams - Package
Diagrams - Component Diagrams – Deployment
Diagrams

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Module:4-Software Implementation

Structured coding Techniques-Coding Styles-

Standards and Guidelines- Documentation
Guidelines-Modern Programming Language Features:
Type checking-User defined data types- Data
Abstraction-Exception Handling- Concurrency
Mechanism – Seven Steps of implementing software –
Implementation Challenges and its resolution.

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Module:5-Software Testing
TESTING: Introduction; Software Testing
Fundamental; Testing Principles; Testing Levels;
Verification and Validation: Validation Testing,
Validation Test Criteria; Test Plan: Test Documentation;
Test Strategies: Top-Down Testing, Bottom-Up Testing,
Thread testing, Stress testing, Back-to-back testing;
Testing methods and tools: Testing through reviews,
Black-box testing (Functional testing), White box
testing (glass-box testing), Testing software changes;
Additional requirements in testing OO Systems;
Metrics Collection, Computation, and Evaluation; Test
and QA plan; Managing Testing Functions.

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Module:6-Software Maintenance
Software Maintenance, Types of Maintenance,
Structured versus unstructured maintenance –
Maintenance costs – Typical problems with
maintenance and its side-effects – Maintenance
process - Software Configuration Management –
Component Reusability - Overview of Reengineering
& Reverse Engineering- Business Process
Reengineering- Restructuring- Forward Engineering-
Economics of Reengineering.

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Module:7-Project Planning and Risk
Management:
Objectives of Activity planning – Project schedules –
Activities – Sequencing and scheduling – Network
Planning models – Forward Pass & Backward Pass
techniques – Critical path (CRM) method – Risk
identification – Assessment – Monitoring – PERT
technique – Monte Carlo simulation – Resource
Allocation – Creation of critical patterns – Cost
schedules.

Module:8- Recent Trends:

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Text Book(s)
1. Roger Pressman and Bruce Maxim, Software Engineering: A
Practitioner's Approach, 9th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2020.
Reference Books
1. Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 10th Edition,
Addision-Wesley, 2015
2. Pankaj Jalote, An Integrated Approach to Software
Engineering (Texts in ComputerScience),Reprint Springer, 2010
3. William E. Lewis , “Software Testing and Continuous Quality
Improvement”, Third Edition, Auerbach Publications, 2008
4. David Gustafson, Schaum's Outline of Software
Engineering,1st Edition, 2020

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Assessment Methods
CAT1
CAT2
Digital Assignment -1 (Moodle)
Digital Assignment -2(Moodle)
QUIZ -1 (Moodle)
Final Assessment Test (FAT)