1. Introduction to Software Engineering Course Outline
Shih-Kun Huang
Office: EC514
Lab: EC329
Phone: 54721

2. Motivation Software Cost Software Quality Concerns Why Outsourcing ?
Safety, Security, Robustness
Why Outsourcing ?
Y2K stories

3. Textbook and References
Textbook: Ian Sommerville. Software Engineering, 7th edition. Addison Wesley ISBN:
References
Roger S. Pressman. Software Engineering: a practitioner’s approach, 6th edition. McGRAW-HILL
Edward Yourdon, Decline & Fall of the American Programmer, Prentice Hall, Inc

4. Course Outline Introduction (FAQs about SE) Software Processes
Requirements
Design
Verification and Validation
Project Management
Other Topics

5. Software Processes Activities concern about Software Development
Software Specification
Design
Implementation
Validation (what customer wants, Testing, Quality Assurance)
Software Evolution (must evolve to meeting changing needs of customers, maintenance)
Process Models
Waterfall model, evolutionary development (concurrent activities), component-based software engineering (design with reuse)
CASE tools for aiding the evolving of processes

6. Requirements Detailed Descriptions of what the system should do.
Functional (service provided) and non-functional requirements (constraints)
User Requirements (external behavior of the system)
System Requirements (starting points for system design)

7. Design Architecture Design Object-oriented Design
Subsystem identifications
Subsystem Control and Communication
Output the Software Architecture
Object-oriented Design
Design as a set of interacting objects
User interface Design
Interface code constitutes the major part of system
Judging the system from UI instead of Functionality
External Behaviors of the system

8. Verification and Validation
Validation: Building the right product ?
Software meets the user’s expectations
Verification: Building the product right ?
Software conforms to the specification
Software Testing
Formal Methods

9. Project Management Project Scheduling Software Metrics Cost Estimation
Quality Management
Risk Management
Change Management

10. Other Issues Software Outsourcing Open source Software Engineering
Building for Trustworthy
Component-based development

11. Grading Policy Mid-term(T1) and Final term exam(T2)
Term Project (P) (4 members a group)
Homework (H)
G1: 30% (T1), 30%(T2), 30%(P), 10%(H)
G2: 20% (T1), 20%(T2), 50%(P), 10%(H)
Max(G1, G2)

12. Term Project Register an account in sourceforge.net or openfoundry.org
Propose a software system to be developed (either from scratch or the existing GPL projects)
Evaluate the project from the analysis, design, and various documents among the processes

13. Notes Please ensure your correct E-mail in cos.adm.nctu.edu.tw.
Ensure your valid login in e2.nctu.edu.tw.