| Unit name | Software Engineering and Group Project |
|---|---|
| Unit code | COMSM1401 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Professor. Cater |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
COMSM1201 |
| School/department | Department of Computer Science |
| Faculty | Faculty of Engineering |
TThis is an MSc-only unit. The aims of this unit are to introduce you to the basic principles of software engineering, reinforce your software development skills, and to apply these skills as part of a team.
This unit teaches the use of well-established software engineering techniques, and involves you working in groups to design, specify and implement some software system.
Software Engineering: structured programming; modularisation; object-oriented techniques; specification; verification; validation; testing; debugging; the software engineering life-cycle; extreme programming.
Project Management: introduction to project management - how to manage teams; PM and team roles; requirement specification; task allocation; scheduling and planning.
A. Diller. Z: An Introduction to Formal Methods. Wiley. 1994. Second edition. ISBN: 0471939730 Background
M Field and L Keller. Project Management. Thomson Publishing. 1998. ISBN: 1861522746 Recommended
I. Sommerville. Software Engineering (7th edition). Addison-Wesley. 2004. ISBN: 0321210263 Recommended
