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