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Course Outline
Day 1: Process
Introduction
- What is Systems Engineering?
- What is Software Engineering?
- Why is Software Engineering difficult?
- System requirements
- System modeling
Software Engineering Processes
- What is a Software Development Process?
- Traditional Processes
- Agile Processes
- Processes for building High-Integrity Systems
- Standards & certification systems
High-Integrity Systems
- What are High-Integrity Systems?
- The role of QM culture
- Reasons for errors
- Critical systems standard
- Reliability engineering
Software Maintenance
Day 2: Planning
Requirements
- User requirements
- Elicitation/analysis of user requirements
- System requirements
- Software requirements
- Specification of software
- Requirements process
- Tools to manage requirements
Software Design
- Conways Law
- Design patterns
- Textual modeling tools
- Principles of OO design
- Design tools
- Common architectures
Modeling
- Planning an architecture
- UML graphical representations
- Non-UML graphical representations
Day 3: Code
Software Construction
- How to take a design into code
- Programming best practices
- Abstraction of code
- Programming workflow
Configuration Management
- What is Configuration Management?
- Configuration Management in ISO9000 and CMMI
- CASE tools for planning, design & QA
- CASE tools for writing software
- Version control with SVN
- System Integration
Code for High-Integrity Systems
- Preventing errors
- Catching errors
- Reducing the impact of errors
- Typical problems with code for High-Integrity Systems
Code quality metrics
- Code size metrics
- Code complexity metrics
- Non-code metrics
- Static analysis
Day 4: Verification & Validation
Reviews
- Fundamentals of VV
- Independent Verification & Validation
- Design and requirement reviews
- Code inspections
- Software Walkthroughs
- Audits
- Other V & V methods
Testing High-Integrity Systems
- Documents regarding safety
- Scenarios
- Argumentation for safety
- Reviews of High-Integrity Systems
- Predicting reliability
- Formal methods
- Costs of V + V
Automated Testing
- Why test?
- Automatic vs manual tests
- Incremental testing
- Types of tests
- Testing tools
- Test Harnesses
Day 5: Management
Project Management
- What is Project Management?
- Customer handover
- Standards (PMP, PRINCE2)
- Time management
- Cost management
- Risk management
- Project documentation
Process Evaluation
- The function of process evaluation
- Acting on the metric
- Process metrics
- Process evaluation standards & frameworks (CMMI, ISO 9001, TickIt+)
- Process evaluation meetings
Summary and Conclusions
35 Hours
Testimonials (2)
Everything was built up from a basic level while progressing quick enough to prevent anyone getting bored.
Nathan Roberts
Course - Software Engineering
The level of inter activeness and pace meant that it was never boring.