Monash University Computing & Information Technology Handbook 1995

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CFR2128

Software engineering

D Casey

8 points * 5 hours per week * First semester * Peninsula * Prerequisites: CFR1124 * Prohibitions: CFR3042, CSC2050, GCO3811, RDT2231, RDT3710, SFT2201, SFT3041

Problems of large-scale software development: managing the software development process, managing change control, software versions and configurations, debugging and testing, system integration, maintenance, factors limiting software re-use, system requirements traceability. Software engineering: use of software process models and associated deliverables, software quality assurance, reviews and walkthroughs, testing strategies, validation and verification, change control procedures, software metrics and estimation techniques, strategies for maximising re-use, computer-aided software engineering. Object-oriented approach to software engineering: objects and classes (creation and deletion), genericity. Role of encapsulation, cohesion, modularity and message passing, inheritance, generalisation versus specialisation, and polymorphism.

Assessment

Examination: 30% * Unit test: 10% * Practical work: 60%

Prescribed texts

Lafore R Object-oriented programming in Turbo C++ Waite Group, 1991

Recommended texts

Davis S R Hands on Turbo C++ Addison-Wesley, 1991

Deitel H M and Deitel P J C++: How to program Prentice-Hall, 1994

Pfleeger S L Software engineering: The production of quality software 2nd edn, Macmillan, 1991

Pohl I Turbo C++ Benjamin-Cummings, 1991

Pressman R S Software engineering: A practitioner's approach 3rd edn, McGraw-Hill, 1991

Sommerville I Software engineering 4th edn, Addison-Wesley, 1992


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