Module Identifier | COM1220 | |||||||||||||||||
Module Title | BUILDING HIGH QUALITY SYSTEMS | |||||||||||||||||
Academic Year | 2003/2004 | |||||||||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Mr Christopher W Loftus | |||||||||||||||||
Semester | Available all semesters | |||||||||||||||||
Pre-Requisite | CO11020 CO11020 or equivalent, Available only to students taking the Dip/MSc in Computer Science scheme or the Dip/MSc in Internet and Distributed Systems (Advanced) scheme. | |||||||||||||||||
Mutually Exclusive | COM2320 | |||||||||||||||||
Course delivery | Other | Contact Hours. 55 hours of contact time; lectures, practicals, workshops. 145 hours of private study, practical work and assessment. | ||||||||||||||||
Assessment |
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Further details | http://www.aber.ac.uk/compsci/ModuleInfo/COM1220 |
In addition, on successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
2. demonstrate mastery of advanced concepts in software engineering (A2, A3)
3. select appropriate advanced software engineering techniques to apply to challenging industrial problems (A2, A3)
4. recognise potential problems in software projects, and be able to intervene to avoid them (A1, A2)
2.The Software Life Cycle - 3 Lectures; 3 Seminars
Description of the phases of a range of software life cycles (including the Waterfall, Prototyping, RAD and Spiral models) and the major deliverables and activities associated with each phase. Rapid application development. Personal software metrics. Extreme programming. Software process improvement.
3.Project Management - 2 Lectures, 2 Seminars
Planning and cost estimation. Progress monitoring. Team structure and team management. Project management in industry.
4.Quality Management - 2 Lectures, 1 Seminar
Validation, verification and testing. Quality plans. Walkthroughs, code inspections and other types of review. Role of the quality assurance group. Standards (international, national and local).
5.Configuration Management - 2 Lectures
Baselines. Change control procedures. Version control. Software tools to support configuration management:
6.Requirements Engineering - 3 Lectures, 2 Seminars
The IEEE standard for requirements specifications. Validation of requirements by e.g., prototyping. Deficiencies in the traditional approach to requirements. Use of UML in requirements gathering. Advances in requirements engineering.
7. Design - 3 Lectures, 2 Seminars
Outline (architectural) design and detailed design. Use of abstraction, information hiding, functional and hierarchical decomposition at levels higher then the individual program. Contents of design documentation. State diagrams. Relevant UML notations: packages, sequence and activity diagrams, active objects. User interface design.
8.Implementation and maintenance - 2 Lectures
Choice of language. Cutover. Types of maintenance. Maintenance process. Refactoring.
9.Testing - 2 Lectures
Testing strategies. Testing tools: static and dynamic analysers, test harnesses and test data generators, simulators. Performance testing. Regression testing. User documentation and training.
10.Tutorials
A tutorial meeting will be associated with this course. The tutorial will be used to organise group project activities.
11. Seminars
A list of papers on advanced software engineering topics will be distributed, and the papers will be presented and applied to sections of the syllabus during seminars, as indicated above.
This module is at CQFW Level 7