Unit-I Introduction: Introduction to software engineering, Importance of software, The evolving role of software, Software Characteristics, Software Components, Software Applications, Software Crisis, Software engineering problems, Software Development Life Cycle, Software Process.
Unit-II Software Requirement Specification: Analysis Principles, Water Fall Model, The Incremental Model, Prototyping, Spiral Model, Role of management in software development, Role of matrices and Measurement, Problem Analysis, Requirement specification, Monitoring and Control.
Software-Design: Design principles, problem partitioning, abstraction, top down and bottom up-design, Structured approach, functional versus object oriented approach, design specifications and verification, Monitoring and control, Cohesiveness, coupling, Forth generation techniques, Functional independence, Software Architecture, Transaction and Transform Mapping, Component – level Design, Forth Generation Techniques
Unit-III Coding: Top-Down and Bottom –Up programming, structured programming, information hiding, programming style and internal documentation.
Testing: Testing principles, Levels of testing, functional testing, structural testing, test plane, test case specification, reliability assessment, software testing strategies, Verification & validation, Unit testing, Integration Testing, Alpha & Beta testing, system testing and debugging.
Unit-IV Software Project Management: The Management spectrum- (The people, the product, the process, the project), cost estimation, project scheduling, staffing, software configuration management, Structured Vs. Unstructured maintenance, quality assurance, project monitoring, risk management.
Unit-V Software Reliability & Quality Assurance: Reliability issues, Reliability metrics, Reliability growth modeling, Software quality, ISO 9000 certification for software industry, SEI capability maturity model, comparison between ISO & SEI CMM.
CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering): CASE and its Scope, CASE support in software life cycle, documentation, project management, internal interface, Reverse Software Engineering, Architecture of CASE environment.
References
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3. Schaum’s Series, “Software Engineering”, TMH
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5. Alexis, Leon and Mathews Leon, “Fundamental of Software Engineering”, Vikas
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