September-December 2017 semester

CHUKA UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

COMP 410: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING II (45/15; 3.5 C.Fs)

LECTURER: FREDRICK M. MUTHENGI

CONTACT: email: fmmuthengi@chuka.ac.ke Tel: 0718 711 185

1.0. COURSE PURPOSE

This course aims to refine student skills for software development in radical and
distributed computing environment.

2.0. LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:

Demonstrate knowledge of advanced issues, principles and practices in software
engineering.
Produce software development artefacts (Requirements Specifications, etc.).
Assess and critique software engineering projects and determine which principles and
practices are most appropriate to the given situation.
Justify the selection of specific software engineering practices.

3.0. COURSE OUTLINE

Week Topic Sub-topic

1. Review of software
development life-cycle
2. Human factors in
software development
3. Human factors in
software development
4. Software evolution
5. Sociotechnical systems
6. Sociotechnical systems
- Review of SDLC
- Review of software process activities
- What is a human factor?
- Human factors in interface design,
implementation, testing and maintenance
- Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
User interface
User interface design approaches
Usability
- Ergonomics
- Evolution processes
- Program evolution dynamics
- Software maintenance
- Legacy system maintenance
- Complex systems
- Systems engineering
- System procurement
- System development
 September-December 2017 semester

- System operation
7. CAT 1 CAT 1
8. CASE environments - Use CASE tools
- Categories of CASE tools
- Object oriented CASE tools
9. Safety Critical Systems - Dependability properties
- Availability and reliability
10. Safety Critical Systems - Safety
- Security
11. CAT 2 CAT 2
12. Distributed Software - Distributed systems issues
Engineering - Client-server computing
13. Distributed Software - Architectural patterns
Engineering - Software as a Service (SaaS)
14. Dependability & security - Risk-driven specification
specification - Safety specification
- Security specification
- Software reliability specification
15. Revision - Revision guidelines
- Questions

4.0. TEACHING METHODOLOGY

Lectures, assignment, practical and tutorial sessions in Computer Laboratory, individual and
group assignments, and exercises

5.0. COURSE EVALUATION

CAT 1 = 10%
CAT 2 = 10%
OTHER ASSESSMENTS = 10%
End of Semester Examination = 70%
Total =100%
Pass mark: 40%

6.0. COURSE TEXTBOOKS

i. Ian Summerville (2011), Software Engineering, 9th Ed. Addison Wesley

ii. Pressman R. (2010), Software Engineering: A Practitioners Approach, 7th ed.
McGraw Hill
iii. Bennett S., McRobb S., & Ray F. (2010), Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and
Design Using UML, 4th Edition McGraw Hill
iv. Martin, R. C. (2003). Agile software development: principles, patterns, and
practices. Prentice Hall PTR.
v. Shaw, M., & Garlan, D. (1996). Software architecture: perspectives on an
emerging discipline (Vol. 1, p. 12). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.