Software Engineering (SE) - Detailed Syllabus

Software Engineering is one of the subjects for Semester 4 of B.Sc.-IT and following is the detailed syllabus for the subject :

i) Introduction, What is software engineering?

ii) Software Development Life Cycle, Requirements Analysis, Software Design,
Coding, Testing, Maintenance etc.

iii) Software Requirement Specification, Waterfall Model, Prototyping Model, Iterative Enhancement Model, Spiral Model, Role of Management in Software Development, Role of Metrics and Measurement, Problem Analysis, Requirement Specification,Validation, Metrics, Monitoring and Control.

iv) System Design, Problem Partitioning, Abstraction, Top-down and bottom-up
design, Structured Approach, Functional v/s Object-Oriented Approach, Design
specification & verification, metrics, Monitoring & Control

v) Coding, Top-down & Bottom-up, Structured Programming, Information Hiding,
Programming Style, Internal Documentation, Verification, Metrics, monitoring &
control

vi) Testing, Levels of Testing- Functional Testing, Structural Testing, Test Plan, Test
Cases Specification, Reliability assessment.

vii) Software Project Management, Cost Estimation, Project Scheduling, Staffing,
Software Configuration Management, Quality Assurance, Project Monitoring, Risk
Management Text Book Software Engineering- A Practitioners Approach, R. Pressman, McGraw Hill An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering, Pankaj Jalote, Narosa.