Introduction to Software Engineering

• 39 hrs lectures
• 8 hrs exercises
• 10 hrs projects

• 60 pts final exam (written part)
• 12 pts numeric exercises
• 16 pts projects
• 12 pts homework

Student gets an overview in the area of complex software system development. Students acquaint especially with software development stages and with models of software life-time. Student makes sense of the methodics basis of the requirements analysis and the software system design. He/she learns to use chosen UML models.

To provide an overview and basics of the complex software system building. To acquaint with the process of software systems creation. This process is analyzed as an integration of system development, software quality assurance, and software project management. To acquaint with the development stages of the software lifetime. The consideration is focused on all development stages, mainly the requirements analysis, requirements specification, and methods of software design. To learn to use basic models of UML and to get familiarity with methodics of UML-based modelling.

Software development is a complex process that often fails. Thus, the main message of this course is to warn students about problems that they as software engineers will face when creating software. Students will learn basic analysis and design techniques for software development and language UML. A special attention is given to identification of data and their relationship that is an essential task of development of any information system.

This course takes place in a winter term of the first year of the bachelor's study programme. Thus, we expect that students have the high school level knowledge of using computers.

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1. Software engineering history, basic notions, the overview of development techniques.
2. Software lifetime, models of software lifetime.
3. Requirement analysis, methods of requirements specification, modelling techniques (Use Case Diagram).
4. Structured analysis and design, methods, modelling techniques. Data-Flow Diagram (DFD) and the Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD).
5. Object-oriented analysis and design, methods, modelling techniques. Unified Modelling Language (UML), Class Diagram and Object Diagram.
6. Chosen modelling means of UML (Activity, Sequence, Communication, and Statechart Diagrams).
7. Complex modelling with UML.
8. Design patterns.
9. Introduction to verification, validation, and testing.
10. Agile methods of software development, basic principles of extreme programming and prototyping.
11. Basic principles of software operation and maintenance.
12. Introduction to software project management.
13. Software quality, intellectual property rights, Software Engineering Code of Ethics.

1. Requirements in UML - Use case diagram, Activity diagram and State diagram (3rd and 4th weeks, 3 points)
2. Data modelling - ER diagram (from 5th till 7th week, 3 points)
3. Analysis and Design in UML - Class diagram and Object diagram (from 7th till 9th week, 3 points)
4. Analysis and Design in UML - Sequence diagram and Communication diagram (from 9th till 11th week, 3 points)

• Individual homework assignment - ER diagram (12 points)
• Complex model of an information system for the team of students (16 points)

Students can obtain up to 12 points from four two hours long exercises (3 points from each), 12 points for homework assignment (ER diagram), 16 points from the team project with presentation and up to 60 points from the final exam.

For receiving the credit and thus for entering the exam, students have to get at least 18 points from the exercises, homework assignment and from the project. Plagiarism and not allowed cooperation will cause that involved students are not classified and disciplinary action may be initiated.

The minimal number of points which can be obtained from the final exam is 30. Otherwise, no points will be assigned to a student.

Within this course, attendance on the lectures is not monitored. Monday lecture is given for lecture group 1BIA, Thursday lecture for group 1BIB and students from FP. Students from lecture groups 2BIA and 2BIB can choose which lecture they attend. Students can, however, attend the lecture given for the other group without any permission.

The knowledge of students is evaluated within exercises, by homework assignment, by the project and its defence and by the final exam.

Points from the exercises can be obtained only for active participation (mistakes and wrong answers are fine while neither involving into the discussion and problem-solving can result in losing points). When a student cannot attend the exercise and proves it correctly (s)he can either attend the exercise with a different group (please inform the teacher about that) or (s)he can ask for giving the points based on homework assignment (1st and 2nd exercise) or on the project (3rd and 4th exercise) .

For receiving the credit and thus for entering the exam, students have to get at least 18 points from the exercises, homework assignment and from the project. Plagiarism and not allowed cooperation will cause that involved students are not classified and disciplinary action may be initiated.