MC206 Software Engineering and System Development

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MC206 Software Engineering and System Development

Credits: 20

Convenor: Zhiming Liu

Semester: 1

Prerequisites:	essential: MC103, MC104	desirable: MC106, MC115
Assessment:	Continual assessment: 30%	Three hour exam in January: 70%

Lectures:	30	Classes:	20
Tutorials:	none	Private Study:	100
Labs:	none	Seminars:	none
Project:	none	Other:	none
Total:	150

Explanation of Pre-requisites

A sound knowledge of basic algorithm and program design and data structures is required. Some knowledge of the professional and ethical issues of large systems are would be useful, but it is certainly not essential for this course. It is also desirable that students have some knowledge of database systems.

Course Description

This course follows on from the course on Software Engineering and provides the students with the engineering principles, methods and practice of how a large system can be specified, designed and implemented using object oriented techniques.

Aims

The overall purpose of the course is to give an understanding of the problems of large-scale software development and how this can be solved using object oriented techniques. The main aim of the course is to teach the understanding and use of object oriented methods to analyse, specify, design and implement large computer systems.

Objectives

At the end of the course the students should be able to:

analyse customer requirements;
write an object oriented specification for a small system;
produce an logical design based on an object oriented specification;
produce a physical design from a logical design;
implement a physical design; and
know what steps are required to specify, design and develop code for a large computer system.

Transferable Skills

the skill in customer requirements analysis;
the skill in requirement definition and specification;
the principles of software project management;
the understanding of system development process.

Syllabus

The system development process: How software is developed; the development cycle; the development process: feasibility study, requirement analysis, system specification, system architecture, system design, coding, installation, maintenance.

Abstract data types: Abstract data types; using abstract data types in design; information hiding; properties of data vs implementation.

Object-oriented analysis and design: The object-oriented approach to system development.

Static models: Objects and classes: attributes, methods and associations; inheritance; aggregation; class communications.

Dynamic models: Modelling the real world; requirements capture; scenarios; events; use-case analysis; finite state machines.

Logical design: The architecture of the system; fitting it all together; the concept of logical design; the specification of the system; data; the user interface.

Physical design: dividing the system into components; persistent objects and databases; design decisions.

System implementation: Implementation strategies: implementing associations, implementing state machines.

Summing up: summary of the course.

Reading list

Essential:

M. Priestley, Practical Object-Oriented Design, McGraw-Hill, 1997.

J. Rumbaugh et al, Object-Oriented Modelling and Design, Prentice Hall International, 1991.

Background:

P. Coad and E. Yourdon, Object-Oriented Analysis (2nd Edition), Prentice-Hall 1991.

M. Fowler, UML Distilled - Applying the Standard Object Modeling Language, Addison-Wesley, 1997.

W. Pree, Design Patterns for Object-Oriented Software Development, Addison-Wesley 1995.

S.R. Schach, Classical and Object-Oriented Software Engineering (3rd Edition), IRWIN, 1996.

Details of Assessment

The final assessment of this module will consist of four assessed pieces of work and a three hour written examination in January.

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Roy L. Crole
10/22/1998