MSC Semester I - Software Engineering

Unit – I

Software Engineering: The Nature of Software, Changing Nature of Software, Defining the

Discipline, Software Process, Software Engineering Practice.

The Software Process: A Generic Process Model, Defining a Framework Activity, Process

Assessment and Improvement, Prescriptive Process Models, Specialized Process Models, Unified

Process, Personal and Team Process Models. Defining Agility, Agile Process, Extreme

Programming, Psychology of Software Engineering, Software Team Structures, Software

Engineering Using the Cloud, Global Teams.

Unit – II

Requirements: Core Principles of Modeling, Requirements Engineering, Establishing the

Groundwork, Eliciting Requirements, Developing Use Cases, Building the Analysis Model,

Requirements Analysis, UML Models That Supplement the Use Case, Identifying Analysis

Classes, Specifying Attributes, Defining Operations, Class-Responsibility- Collaborator Modeling,

Associations and Dependencies, Analysis Packages.

Design Concepts: Design within the Context of SE, Design Process, Design Concepts, Design

Model, Software Architecture, Architectural Styles, Architectural Considerations, Architectural

Design, Component, Designing Class-Based Components, Conducting Component-Level Design,

Component- Based Development, User Interface Design Rules.

Unit – III

Quality Management: Quality, Software Quality, Software Quality Dilemma, Achieving Software

Quality, Defect Amplification and Removal, Reviews, Informal Reviews, Formal Technical

Reviews, Elements of Software Quality Assurance, SQA Tasks, Goals, and Metrics, Software

Reliability, A Strategic Approach to Software Testing, Test Validation Testing, System Testing,

Debugging, Software Testing Fundamentals, White- Box Testing, Black-Box Testing, Path Testing,

Control Structure Testing, Object-Oriented Testing Strategies & Methods, Security Engineering

Analysis, Security Assurance, Security Risk Analysis.

Unit – IV

Software Configuration Management, SCM Process, Product Metrics for Requirements Model,

Design Model, Source Code, Testing and Maintenance.

Managing Software Projects: The Project Management Spectrum, W5HH Principle, Metrics in the

Process and Project Domains, Software Measurement, Metrics for Software Quality, Integrating

Metrics within the Software Process, Software Project Estimation, Decomposition Techniques,

Project Scheduling – basics, scheduling, Software Risks, Risk Mitigation, Monitoring, and

Management, Software Maintenance, Software Reengineering, Reverse Engineering, Forward

Engineering.