Software Engineering

Unit

Topic

No. of Lectures

1

Introduction to System Concepts

1.1 Definition

1.2 Basic Components

1.3 Elements of the System

1.4 Types of System

1.5 System Characteristics

4

2

Introduction to Software Engineering

2.1 Definition of Software

2.2 Characteristics of Software

2.3 Definition of Software Engineering

2.4 Need for Software Engineering

2.5 Mc Call’s Quality factors

2.6 The Software Process

2.7 Software Product and Process

2.8 V& V Model

6

3

Software Development Life Cycle

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Activities of SDLC

3.3 A Generic Process Model

3.4 SDLC

3.5 Waterfall Model

3.6 Incremental Process Models

3.7 Prototyping Model

3.8 Spiral Model

8

4

Requirement Engineering

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Requirement Elicitation

4.3Requirement Elaboration

4.4 Requirement Gathering

4.5 Feasibility study

4.6 Fact Finding Techniques

4.7 SRS Format

8

5

Analysis and Design Tools

5.1 Decision Tree and Decision Table

5.2 Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) (Up to 2nd level)

5.3 Data Dictionary

5.4 Elements of DD

5.5 Advantages and Disadvantages of DD

5.6 Input and Output Design

5.7 Structured Design Concepts

5.8 Structure Chart

5.9 Coupling and Cohesion

5.10 Compulsory Case Studies on above topics

12

6

Software Testing

6.1 Definition

6.2 Software testing Process

6.3 Unit Testing

6.4 Integration Testing

6.5 System Testing

6

7

Software Maintenance and Software Re-Engineering

7.1 Maintenance Definition and Types

7.2 Software reengineering

7.3 Reverse Engineering

7.4 Restructuring and forward Engineering.

4