SOFTWARE ENGINEERING III BCA MADRAS UNIVERSITY SYLLABUS

Title of the Course/	Paper -XIV                      SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Core	III Year & Fifth Semester	Credit: 4
Objective of the course	This course introduces the concepts of  Life Cycle of Software
Course outline	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 – level estimation – estimating software maintenance costs.
	Unit-3: Software requirements definition: The software requirements specification – formal languages and processors for requirements specification.
	Unit-4:  Software Design: Fundamental 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 – Managua aspects of software maintenance – Configuration management – source code metrics – other maintenance tools and techniques.

1. Recommended Texts

    i. Richard E.Fairly - Software Engineering Concepts - Tata McGraw-Hill book  

       Company.

2. Reference Books

    i. R.S.Pressman, 1997, Software Engineering – 1997 -  Fourth Ed., McGraw Hill.

    ii. Rajib Mall ,2004,Fundamentals of Software Engineering,2^nd Edition, PHI.