Monash South Africa Engineering
Engineers have forged some of the greatest developments in modern society. Clean water, advances in medical equipment and the increased quality of food supplies are all a result of engineering. Engineers improve life for everyone on our planet.
6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL
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Faculty
Information Technology
Offered
South Africa
- Second semester 2017 (Day)
Synopsis
In this unit students will learn about many aspects of working with a large team on large projects to produce quality software products on time and within budget. The student will gain an appreciation of the tools and techniques used to develop software systems within a group context. Topics to be studied include: software development lifecycle models; sizing, estimation, planning and control of projects; functional specification and design of real-time systems; formal specification and design using Z; integration and testing strategies, configuration management; reuse and re-engineering.
Outcomes
At the completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- explain the continuing software crisis, problems encountered in the development of large software systems: poor quality, late delivery and budget overruns and the techniques used in software engineering to counter these problems;
- describe the role of software lifecycle models in project control and planning;
- describe and assess methods for software estimations and real-time systems;
- implement strategies for testing software;
- apply techniques for scheduling and control of large projects;
- construct and validate a software specification;
- describe large software systems using appropriate language and technical specification techniques to suit the intended audience
