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

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