BCA Syllabus – Software Engineering

6.1 Software Engineering

Third Year          Part III Group A                 Sixth Semester                Subject Code:   

Unit – 1

Introduction to Software Engineering Some definition –Some size factors –Quality and productivity factors- Managerial issue. Planning a software project: Defining the problem –Developing a solution strategy – planning the development process –planning an organization structure –other planning activities.

Unit – 2

Software Cost Estimation: Software – Cost factors - Software cost estimation techniques -Specification techniques staffing –level estimation –estimating software maintenance costs.

Unit – 3

Software requirements definition: The software requirements specification – format languages and processors for requirements specification.

Unit - 4

Software Design : Fundamentals Design concepts- Modules and modularizing Criteria Design Notations –Design techniques –Detailed Design Consideration –Real time and distributed system design –Test plan- Mile stones walk through and inspection –Design guide lines.

Unit - 5

Verification and validation Techniques: Quality assurance –Static analysis – symbolic exception – Unit testing and Debugging –system testing – formal verification. Software maintenance : Enhancing maintainability during development – managerial aspects of software maintenance –configuring management –source code metrics –other maintenance tools and techniques.

TEXT BOOK :

1. Software Engineering Concepts, 1985. McGrawHill Book Company, Richard E.Fairly Chapters 1-5, 8 & 9.

REFERENCE BOOK:

Software Engineering: A practitioner’s approach by Roger S. Pressman McGrawHill International Book Company, 2001