BCA Semester IV - Software Engineering

Unit I Introduction to Software Engineering:

Introduction, Program Versus Software, Software Engineering, Software Development Process and its Stages, Generic Software Development Process Models, Code of Ethics and Professional Practice, Software Development and Maintenance Cost Breakup.

Requirement Engineering Processes – Requirement Engineering Process, Feasibility Study, Cost and Benefit Analysis.

Unit II Requirement Specification:

Characteristics of a Good Requirement and Validation Techniques, Requirements Management Planning, and Process of Requirement Change Management.

Software Requirement Specifications – Introduction, Stakeholder Analysis, Software Requirements Document, IEEE Standard of Software Requirement Specifications, Organizing Functional Requirements, Traceability and Validation of Specifications.

Unit III Architectural Styles:

Introduction, Architecture Styles, Object Oriented Architecture, Inter-organizational Communication, Cloud Computing Architecture Style, Core, Configurable and

Customizable Architecture, Design Models, Architectural Design Principles.

Object Oriented System Analysis – Introduction, Object Oriented Design, Object Oriented Design Models, Object Oriented Analysis, Data Modeling, Comparison Between Top Down Structured and Object Oriented Analysis, Description of Logical and Static Modeling, and Identification of Class Relationships.

Unit IV Object-Oriented Design Using UML

Introduction, Sequence Diagram, State Machine Diagram, Timing Diagram, Describing Detailed Object Oriented Design, Decision Tree and Decision Table,

Composite Structure Diagram, Generating Test Cases, Moving Towards Physical Design, Structured Methods.

Software Development – Introduction, Good Coding Practices, Code Reuse, Design Pattern, Generator Based Reuse, Application/Software Developed on Product Lines Approach, Component-Based Software Engineering, Agile Methods.

Unit V Verification:

Validation and Software Testing – Introduction, Software Verification and Validation Process, Software Testing, System Testing, Object Oriented Testing Strategy, Test Cases, Equivalence Partitioning (Black Box Testing), Art of Debugging.

Measurement and Metrics for Assessing Software Quality – Introduction, ISO 9126 Quality Standards, Quality Management Models, Ways to Build Quality in Software, Software Quality

Control and Metrics, Defect Density Metrics, Chidamber and Kemerer Metric Suites for Object-Oriented Systems, Class Coupling Metric-Coupling Between Objects, Monitoring Dynamic Quality Attributes (Visible Externally) of a Software.