The class navigates through all stages of software engineering from requirement gathering, to writing specification, to program design, to coding, to testing, and finally to deployment focusing on rapid application development (RAD) based on modified agile methodology.

Students are also given individual projects for which they must produced a complete software requirement specification: this means that the software has to be thought out in minuscule detail but not coded.

All students are expected to produce a report on current software-development related topic (e.g. software development tool, methodology, technology, industry standard, etc.) and present it to the class.

• Introduction
• What is Software Engineering? Who Is Involved?
• Software Systems, Software Lifecycle
• CASE Tools, Visual Studio, TFS
• Planning, Keeping Track of Progress
• Requirements: Gathering, Analyzing Requirements
• Requirements: Verification, Validation, Specification Lang.
• Process Modeling, UML
• Data Modeling, SQL
• Design: Client-Server, 3-Tier
• Design: Services, Web Services, XML
• Design: Scalability, Parallel vs. Serial
• TEST 1
• Open Source
• Objects: OOP
• Objects: OOD
• Coding Standard, Best Practices
• Mid-Term Exam
• Methodologies: Agile, Extreme
• Methodologies: Clean Room
• Testing: Unit Testing
• Testing: Integration Testing
• Testing: Acceptance Testing
• TEST 2
• Deployment
• Maintenance
• Software and Process Evaluation
• Migration (Transfer), Decision Making, Certification
• FINAL EXAM

1. Introduction into Software Engineering
2. Software Lifecycle
3. Planning and Managing
4. Requirements
5. Design
6. Improving Design
7. Objects
8. Data Design Rules
9. Coding Standard
10. Testing
11. Integration Testing
12. System Testing
13. Maintaining the System
14. Team Project (N-Body)
15. Individual Project Template (doc)