Unit 1

Introduction – Software – Software Crisis – Software Myths – Process and Product – Software characteristics- SDLC Introduction

Unit 2

Software requirements specification – Approaches – Paradigms – Build and Fix – Waterfall – Prototyping – Spiral – Concurrent – RAD – Incremental – Agile Introduction.

Unit 3

Analysis Modelling – Elements of Analysis Model – Data Modelling – ERD – DFD – Data Dictionary. Introduction to Design concepts – Design Architecture, Design characteristics, Description, Principles. Object oriented diagrams – Class diagrams – Use Case Diagrams – State-transition diagrams – Object diagrams – Interaction diagrams – UML Modelling .

Unit 4

Software Testing Fundamentals – Objectives of Testing – Testing Principles – Testability -Testing Process and Methods – Introduction to Testing Strategies.

Unit 5

Software Maintenance – Reverse Engineering and Reengineering

Software Engineering presents a broad perspective on software systems engineering, concentrating on widely used techniques for developing large-scale software systems. This course covers a wide spectrum of software processes from initial requirements elicitation through design and development to system evolution.

1. Roger S. Pressman, “Software Engineering”, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd, Sixth Edition.

1. Shooman, “Software Engineering”, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Pvt. Ltd, 1987