London School of
Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Modules
61
Software Engineering
Prerequisites
– 62 Information systems development and management and
103 Elements of information and communication technologies
This syllabus covers
the methods, attitudes and values that underlie professional software
systems development. The main emphasis is on how to specify the requirements
of a software application and how to achieve a successful design and
implementation.
Software and
software engineering: definition of software, its importance, the
software crisis; software development approaches – the classic life
cycle, prototyping, evolutionary software development.
Software requirements
analysis: structured and object-oriented methods; formal specification.
Software design:
structured and object-oriented design: features of a good design
– modularity, cohesion and coupling, information hiding, abstraction.
Coding: choice
of programming languages; produce program code and documentation.
Software testing
and implementation: white box and black box testing; unit, integration,
validation and system testing; management of the conversion of operations.
Software maintenance:
corrective, adaptive, perfective and preventative maintenance.
Software project
management: effort estimation, scheduling and resource allocation,
monitoring and control, risk management for software applications.
Software engineering
special topics: computer-aided software engineering, software documentation,
software reuse and portability, software reliability.
Practical course
work: development of a software application by using systematically
software engineering methods, and development tools such as Pascal,
Visual Basic, C++ or Delphi.
Note: Candidates
taking this unit are required to submit course work.
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