Fundamentals of Software Engineering

Salient Features: 1. Software Engineering Fundamentals: Definition of software product, software development paradigms; software engineering, knowledge engineering and end user development approaches. Software Analysis: Abstraction, partitioning and projection, system specification, software requirements specification (SRS) standards, formal specification method, specification tools, flow based, data based and object orientated analysis. 2. Systems Design: Idealized and constrained design, process oriented design (Gane and Sarson and Yourdon notations); data oriented design, Object oriented design (Booch approach), Cohesion and coupling; Design metrics, design documentation standards, Role of Case Tools. 3. Coding And Programming: Choice of programming languages, mixed language programming and call semantics, Re-engineering legacy systems, coding standard. 4. Software Quality And Testing: Software quality assurance, types of software testing (white box, black box, unit, integration, validation, system etc. 5. Software Project Management: Planning software projects, work background structures, integrating software, software design.