Fundamentals of Software Engineering

Instructor: Dr. Kal Bugrara

Office: Snell Engineering, Rm 267

Office Hours: Sat: 12:00-2:00 pm

Phone 617-373-3699

URL: www.coe.neu.edu/~kmb

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Objectives Develop the skill sets needed to empower you to

take a business problem from “concept” to “code”

Learn the tools and techniques that will enable you to transform a business problem to a managed solution.

You will learn

The Unified Modeling Language

How to leverage modeling tools such as Rational Rose and others to document business requirements

Business process analysis and design techniques

The Steps How to analyze and formalize user requirements

Activity modeling

Object modeling

Use cases

Sequence diagrams

Map the business definition to a high level software architecture

Map the high level software architecture to a detailed design

Develop a quality assurance/testing strategy

The Project Analyze and design a software solution to a real-

world business problem.

Work part of a team of three people and divide the work accordingly.

You are required to submit progress reports every 2 weeks.

The Deliverables

A formal presentation describing your solution

A detailed report outlining your solution.

You will be graded on the correctness and

completeness of your solution. Completeness here means a team of software engineers should be able to program your design quickly without your help

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The Grading

A midterm exam will account for %25 of your grade

A final exam will account for the remaining %25 of your grade.

Homework problems %20

The project work will account for 30% of your grade

Reference books

“UML Distilled” 3rd edition by Martin Fowler

“Writing Effective Use-Cases” by Alistair Cockburn