MSE-103 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Unit : 1

System Engineering : Hierarchy of system engineering, Product engineering, Requirements

Engineering, System Modeling, Requirement Analysis, Analysis Principles, Software Prototyping,

Software Requirement Specification, Software Engineering Process.

Unit : 2

Analysis Modeling : Elements of Analysis modeling, Data Modeling, Function Modeling and

information flow, Behavioral modeling, Mechanics of structured analysis, data dictionary and other

classical analysis methods, USE CASE modeling, UML Scenario, activities and class diagram.

Unit :3

Design Concepts and Principles: Design Process, Design Concepts, Effective Modular Design

Functional Independence, coupling and cohesion, Software Architectural Design-Data Design

Architectural Styles, Mapping Requirements into a Software Architecture, Transform Mapping,

Transaction Mapping, User Interface Design, Task Analysis and Modeling, Implementation tools,

Design Evaluation, Component Level design.

Unit : 4

Software Testing Techniques & Stragies :White Box Testing, Basis Path Testing, Control Structure

Testing Black Box Testing, Graph Based Testing Methods, Equivalence Partitioning, Boundary Value

Analysis, Comparison Testing, Orthogonal Array Testing, Strategic Issues, Unit testing, Integration

testing, Validation testing, System Testing, Formal Technical Review.

Unit : 5

Software Technical Metrics : Software Quality – McCall’s Quality Factors, FURPS, Framework for

technical software Metrics, Metrics for the analysis model, function based Metrics, Bang Metric,

Metrics for design Model-Architectural Design Metrics, Component Level Design Metrics, Interface

Design Metrics, Metrics for source code, Metrics for Testing and Maintenance.

Reference Books:

1. R.S.Pressman, “Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach”, Sixth edition 2006,

McGraw-Hill

2. Sommerville, “Software Engineering”, Pearson Education

3. Rechard H.Thayer, “Software Engineering & Project Managements”, Willey India

4. Mustafa & Khan, “Software Testing-Concepts and Practices”, Narosa Pub House.

5. Behforooz & Hudson, “Software Engineering Fundamentals”, Oxford Univ. Press.