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Introduction to Software Engineering: Foundation for Quality Software

Dive into the world of software engineering, where complexity meets deadlines. Learn to construct and manage quality software through projects and lectures. Emphasis is on technical and managerial skills, teamwork, and project completion.

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Introduction to Software Engineering: Foundation for Quality Software

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  1. Chapter 1,Introduction to Software Engineering

  2. Software Engineering • Software systems are complex • Impossible to understand by a single person • Many projects are never finished: "vaporware" • The problem is arbitrary complexity • 1968 Definition: • Software Engineering means the construction of quality software with a limited budget and a given deadline • Our definition: • Software Engineering means the construction of quality software with a limited budget and a given deadline in the context of constant change • Emphasis is on both, on software and on engineering

  3. Course format • A Single Semester Course • Lectures: Theoretical foundations and background • Project: Learn how to apply them in practice • Lectures and Project work are interleaved • Everybody will participate in a software project

  4. Objectives of this course • Acquire technical knowledge • Understand difference between program and software product • Be able to reconstruct the analysis and design of an existing software system • Be able to design and implement a subsystem that will be part of a larger system • Acquire managerial knowledge • produce a high quality software system within budget & time • while dealing with complexity and change

  5. Emphasis is on team work • Participate in collaborative design • Work as a member of a project team, assuming various roles • Create and follow a project and test plan • Create the full range of documents associated with a software product • Complete a project on time

  6. How can we accomplish this? • Course Projects • Internet Ordering System • Internet Sales Tracking System • You will organize into groups of 3 • Each group will be assigned a project • Details will be revealed once the groups are formed • Course project will be done in 3 stages • Requirements elicitation • Analysis and design • Implementation

  7. Assumptions and Requirements for this Class • Assumption: • You are proficient in a programming language (Java preferred), but have no experience in analysis or design of a system • You have access to a Web Browser • Course Homepage: http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~ege/cen4010/ • Requirements: • You have taken required courses (Programming III, Data Structures) • or • You have practical experience with maintaining or developing a large software system

  8. Textbooks • Textbook • Bernd Bruegge and Allen Dutoit, Object-Oriented Software Engineering: Conquering Complex and Changing Systems, Prentice Hall, 2000. • Optional Readings • Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides: Design Patterns, Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-63361-2 • Ivar Jacobson, M. Christerson, P. Jonsson, G. Övergaard, "Object-Oriented Software Engineering" , Addison Wesley, 1992 • Grady Booch, "Object-Oriented Design with Applications", Benjamin Cummings, 1991. • James Rumbaugh, M. Blaha, W. Premerlani, F. Eddy, W. Lorensen, Object-Oriented Modeling and Design, Prentice Hall, 1991

  9. Ground Rules • Attendance: • Attendance and class participation is required • Every project team member is responsible for the whole project • Grading: • Midterm exam 30% • Final exam 30% • Group project 40% • Requirements document 30% • Design document 40% • System implementation 30%

  10. Project • Each team must: • Submit a bi-weekly activity log • Submit a Requirement Analysis Document • Submit an Object Design Document • Demonstrate the entire running program • Each of the above also require a 15 minutes in class presentation • Every team member is responsible for the entire project

  11. What is Software Engineering • Software Engineering is the construction of quality software with a limited budget and a given deadline • How about change? • Software Engineering is the construction of quality software with a limited budget and a given deadline in the context of constant change • Emphasis is on both, on software and on engineering

  12. Why Software Engineering • Software Systems are complex: • Impossible to understand by a single person • Many projects are never finished • The problem being solved is arbitrarily complex • Software Systems are subject to constant change

  13. What are the activities? • Modeling • An abstract representation of a system that allows the software engineer to answer questions about the system • Models allow visualizing and understanding systems that are • too large • too complex • too expensive for direct experimentation • or do not even exist in the real world • Problem Solving • Find a solution with incomplete knowledge and limited resources • Formulate the problem • Analyze the problem • Search for solutions • Select an appropriate solution • Specify the solution

  14. What are the activities? • Knowledge Acquisition • software Engineer must acquire problem domain knowledge required to develop the target system • is nonlinear • Rationale Management • Justification of decisions • issues that were addressed • alternatives that were considered • decisions that were made to resolve the issues • the criteria that were used to guide decisions • the underlying debates

  15. Concepts • A project’s purpose is to develop a software system • A project is composed of a number of activities • An activity is composed of a number of tasks • A task consumes resources and produces a work product • work product: • a system • a Model • a document • resource: • time • equipment • personnel

  16. Project Activity * WorkProduct Task Resources is produced by consumes * * * System Participant Model Time Document Equipment Concepts -- UML

  17. Development Activities • Requirement Elicitation • Analysis • System Design • Object Design • Implementation

  18. Requirement Elicitation • Define the purpose of the system • Describe the system in terms of actors and use cases • Actors: • External entities that interact with the system • Use Cases: • Sequences of events that describe all possible actions between actors and the system

  19. Analysis • Produce a model of the system that is: • Correct • Complete • Consistent • Unambiguous • Realistic • Verifiable • Transform use cases into object model

  20. System Design • Define the design goals • Decompose the system into smaller subsystems • Select strategies for building the system

  21. Object Design • Precisely describe object and system interfaces • Select off-the shelf components • Restructure the object model to attain design goals: • Extensibility • Understandability • Performance optimization • Result: • Detailed object model

  22. Implementation • Translate the object model into source code • Implement the attributes and methods of each object • Integrate all the objects

  23. Managerial Aspects • Communication • Rationale Management • Testing • Discover as many faults as possible and repair them before the delivery • Software Configuration Management • Monitor and control changes • Software Project Management • Budgeting • Hiring • Tracking progress, etc. • Software life cycle modeling

  24. Summary • Find the class website • Read Chapter 1 • Form your teams

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