SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

MICRO SYLLABUS

Course 23 23 Year II Semester II

Code CS3 IT3
403 403
Course PC Branch CSE/IT
Credits
Category Profes
3 L–T–P
Branch 3-0-0
CSE,IT Pre requisites
Course Type -
Continuous sional Semester End Total Marks Theory
Core 70 100
Evaluation 30 Evaluation

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
CO1 Understand the fundamentals of Software Engineering and various process models L2
CO2 Apply project management and requirement analysis techniques for the software L3
Projects.
CO3 Use various design elements along with testing to prepare software system. L3
CO4 Use of CASE to improve Software development and Software maintenance. L3

Contribution of Course Outcomes towards achievement of Program Outcomes &

Strength of correlations (3: Substantial,2: Moderate,1: Slight)
PO1 PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO1 PO1 PS PS
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 O1 O2
CO1 3
CO2 3 3 3 3 1 1
CO3 3 3 3 2 3 1 1
CO4 3 3 1 1

Syllabus
Unit Mapped
CONTENTS
No. CO
Introduction: Evolution—From an Art Form to an Engineering Discipline-
Evolution Pattern for Engineering Disciplines, A Solution to the Software
Crisis, Software Development Projects-Types of Software Development
I CO1
Projects, Exploratory Style of Software Development- Principles Deployed
by Software Engineering, Emergence of Software Engineering-Early
Computer Programming, High-level Language Programming, Control
Flow-based Design, Data Structure-oriented Design, Data Flow-oriented
Design, Object-oriented Design. Notable Changes in Software
Development Practices.

Software Life Cycle Models: Few Basic concepts, Waterfall Model and its
Extensions-Classical Waterfall Model, Iterative Waterfall Model, V-Model,
Prototyping Model, Incremental Development Model, Evolutionary Model,
Rapid Application Development (RAD)- Working of RAD, Applicability of
RAD Model, Comparison of RAD with Other Models, Agile Development
Models- Essential Idea behind Agile Models, Agile versus Other Models,
 Extreme Programming Model, Scrum Model, Lean Software development,
Spiral Model- Phases of the Spiral Model.

Software Project Management: Software Project Management

Complexities, Responsibilities of a Software Project Manager- Job
I Responsibilities for Managing Software Projects, Skills Necessary for CO1,
I Managing Software Projects, Project Planning-Sliding Window Planning, CO2
The SPMP Document of Project Planning, Metrics for Project Size
Estimation.-Lines of Code (LOC), Function Point (FP) Metric, Project
Estimation Techniques- Empirical Estimation Techniques, Heuristic
Techniques, Analytical Estimation Techniques, Empirical Estimation
techniques- Expert Judgement, Delphi cost estimation, COCOMO—A
Heuristic Estimation Technique-Basic COCOMO Model, Risk
Management- Risk Management Approaches, Risk Identification, Risk
Assessment, Risk Mitigation.

Requirements Analysis and Specification: Requirements Gathering and

Analysis- Requirements Gathering, Requirements Analysis, Software
Requirements Specification (SRS)-Users of SRS Document, Characteristics
of a Good SRS Document, Attributes of Bad SRS Documents, Important
Categories of Customer Requirements-Functional Requirements, How to
identify the functional requirements, How to document functional
requirements, traceability, Organisation of the SRS Document.

Software Design: Overview of the Design Process- Outcome of the Design

Process, classification of Design Activities, How to Characterise a Good
III Software Design- Understandability of a Design: A Major Concern, CO1,
Cohesion and Coupling- Classification of Cohesiveness, Classification of CO3
Coupling, Layered Arrangement of Module, Approaches to software
design- Function oriented design, Object oriented design.

Function-Oriented Software Design: Overview of SA/SD Methodology,

Structured Analysis- Data Flow Diagrams, Developing the DFD Model of
a System- Context Diagram, Level 1 DFD, Structured Design-
Transformation of a DFD Model into Structure Chart, Detailed Design,
Design Review.

User Interface Design: Characteristics of a Good User Interface, Basic

Concepts- User Guidance and On-line Help, Mode-based versus modeless
interface, Graphical User Interface (GUI) versus Text-based User Interface,
Types of User Interfaces-Command Language-based Interface, Menu-based
Interface, Direct Manipulation Interfaces, Golden Rules.
 Coding and Testing: Coding- Coding Standards and Guidelines, Code
Review- Code Walkthrough, Code Inspection, Clean Room Technique,
Software documentation- Internal Documentation , External
IV Documentation, Testing- Basic Concepts and Terminologies, Testing CO1,
CO3
Activities, Why Design Test Cases?, Testing in the Large versus Testing in
the Small, Unit Testing, Black-box Testing- Equivalence Class Partitioning,
Boundary Value Analysis, White-Box Testing- Basic Concepts, Statement
Coverage, Branch Coverage, Condition Coverage, Condition and Decision
Coverage, Multiple Condition Coverage ,Path Coverage, McCabe’s
Cyclomatic Complexity Metric , Debugging- Debugging Approaches,
Integration Testing, Phased versus Incremental Integration Testing, Testing
Object-Oriented programs- What is a Suitable Unit for Testing Object-
Oriented Programs?, System Testing- Smoke Testing, Performance Testing

Software Reliability and Quality Management: Software Reliability-

Hardware versus Software Reliability, Reliability Metrics of Software
Products, Statistical Testing- Steps in Statistical Testing, Software Quality
- Software Quality Models, Software Quality Management System-
Evolution of Quality Systems, Product Metrics versus Process Metrics, ISO
9000-What is ISO 9000 Certification? ISO 9000 for Software Industry, SEI
Capability maturity model- Comparison between ISO 9000 certification and
SEI/CMM.

Computer-Aided Software Engineering (Case):Case and its Scope, Case

V Environment- Benefits of CASE, CASE Support in Software Life Cycle- CO1,
Prototyping Support, Structured Analysis and Design, Code generation, test CO4
case generator, Other Characteristics of Case Tools- Hardware and
Environmental Requirements, Documentation Support, Project
Management, External Interface, Reverse Engineering Support, Data
dictionary interface, Towards Second Generation CASE Tool, Architecture
of a Case Environment.

Software Maintenance: Characteristics of Software Maintenance-

Characteristics of Software Evolution, Special Problems Associated with
Software Maintenance, Software Reverse Engineering, Software
maintenance process models and Estimation of maintenance cost.
Learning Resources
Text Books
1. Fundamentals of Software Engineering, Rajib Mall, 5th Edition, PHI.
2. Software Engineering A practitioner’s Approach, Roger S. Pressman, 9th Edition, Mc-
Graw Hill International Edition.
Reference Books
1. Software Engineering, Ian Sommerville, 10th Edition, Pearson.
2. Software Engineering, Principles and Practices, Deepak Jain, Oxford University Press.
E-Resources & other digital material
1. https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106/105/106105182/
2.https://infyspringboard.onwingspan.com/web/en/app/toc/lex_auth_01260589506387148827_shared/overview
3.https://infyspringboard.onwingspan.com/web/en/app/toc/lex_auth_013382690411003904735_shared/overview
Course Coordinators Module Coordinators
1. Dr A Haritha
2. Dr K Kavitha Dr. K Koteswara Rao, Dr A Haritha
3. Dr K Koteswara Rao
4. Dr. A Ramana Lakshmi
5. Ms A Divya

Prof. & Head, Dept. of IT Prof. & Head, Dept. of CSE

(Dr. B V.Subbarao). (Dr. A. JayaLakshmi)