CS 4310 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (4) 2005

Catalog Description:

Concepts and issues in the development of large software projects. Systematic approaches to specifications, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of high-quality software. Prerequisite: CS 3240

Course description:

Life cycle:

specification, analysis, design, implementation, test

Specification:

narrative, inputs/outputs

Analysis:

• modeling, protoyping, user's manual
• structured analysis: data flow diagrams
• object-oriented analysis: inheritance, assembly

Design:

Preliminary:

• data design
• architectural design: modular structure, control hierarchy
• structured design: transfor/transaction analysis
• object-oriented design: objects and classes
• user interface

Detailed:

• data structure design: information hiding
• procedural design: pseudocode

Cohesion and coupling

Test:

• unit, integration, validation
• white box versus black box
• test plans, test harnesses, and test stubs

Case studies

Team designing/programming

Suggested texts:

• Pressman: Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
• Sommerville, Software Engineering
• Larman, Applying UML and Patterns, Prentice Hall