Overview

• About Software Engineering
• Professional and ethical responsibility

Socio-technical system

• System Engineering
• Organizations, People and Computer systems
• Legacy systems

Critical systems

• A simple safety critical systems
• System dependability
• Availability and reliability
• Safety
• Security

Software Processes

• Software Process Model
• Process Iteration
• Process activities
• The Relational Unified Process
• Computer Aided Software Engineering

Project Management

• Management activities
• Project Planning
• Project Scheduling
• Risk Management

Requirements

Software requirements

• Functional and non-functional requirements
• User Requirements
• System Requirements
• The Software requirement document

Requirement engineering processes

• Feasibility Studies
• Requirements elicitation and analysis
• Requirements validation
• Requirements management

System Models

• Context models
• Behavioral models
• Data models
• Object models
• Structured methods

Critical systems specification

• Risk-driven specification
• Safety specification
• Security specification
• Software reliability specification

Formal specification

• Formal specification in the software process
• Sub-system interface specification
• Behavioral specification

Design

Architectural design

• Architectural design decisions
• System organization
• Modular decomposition styles
• Control styles

Distributed systems architectures

• Multiprocessor architectures
• Client-server architectures
• Distributed object architectures
• Inter-organisational distributed computing

Application architectures

• Data processing systems
• Transaction processing systems
• Event processing systems
• Language processing systems

Object-oriented design

• Objects and object classes
• An object-oriented design process
• Design evolution

Real-time software design

• System design
• Real-time operating systems
• Monitoring and control systems
• Data acquisition systems

Development

Rapid software development

• Agile methods
• Extreme programming
• Rapid application development
• Software prototyping

Software reuse

• The reuse landscape
• Design patterns
• Application frameworks
• Generator-based reuse
• Application system reuse