Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Objectives On completion of the subject, students should be able to competently design and implement medium size software projects from specification; and apply key principles of software engineering to all software that they author so that it is correct, efficient, modular, reusable, structured and well documented.
Synopsis This subject looks at formal methods and approaches to the construction of modern computer software. Topics covered include: software tools, object-oriented programming (using the C++ programming language), documentation, debugging, metrics, formal specification, process and project management issues.
Assessment Examination (2 hours): 80% + Practical work: 20%