142401 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND QUALITY ASSURANCE IT SYLLABUS 4th Semester Anna University of Technology

142401         SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND QUALITY ASSURANCE            3 0 0 3

1.         Software Product And Process                                                                           9

Introduction – S/W Engineering Paradigm – Verification – Validation – Life Cycle Models – System Engineering – Computer Based System – Business Process Engineering Overview – Product Engineering Overview.

2.         Software Requirements                                                                                        9

Functional and Non-Functional – Software Document – Requirement Engineering Process – Feasibility Studies – Software Prototyping – Prototyping in the Software Process – Data – Functional and Behavioral Models – Structured Analysis and Data Dictionary.

3.         Analysis, Design Concepts And Principles                                                      9

Systems Engineering - Analysis Concepts -  Design Process And Concepts – Modular Design – Design Heuristic –  Architectural Design –  Data Design – User Interface Design –  Real Time Software Design – System Design – Real Time Executives – Data Acquisition System – Monitoring And Control System.

4.         Testing                                                                                                                    9

Taxonomy Of Software Testing – Types Of S/W Test – Black Box Testing – Testing Boundary Conditions – Structural Testing – Test Coverage Criteria Based On Data Flow Mechanisms – Regression Testing – Unit Testing – Integration Testing – Validation Testing – System Testing And Debugging – Software Implementation Techniques

5.         Software Quality Assurance                                                                               9 

Process and Product Quality – Quality Assurance and Standards – Quality Planning and Control – Software metrics – Process Improvement – Software configuration Management.                

TOTAL = 45

Text Books:

1.    Ian Sommerville, “Software engineering”, Seventh Edition, Pearson Education Asia, 2007.

2.    Roger S. Pressman, “Software Engineering – A practitioner’s   Approach”, Sixth Edition, McGraw-Hill International Edition, 2005.

References:

1.    Watts S.Humphrey,”A Discipline for Software Engineering”, Pearson Education, 2007.

2.    James F.Peters  and  Witold Pedrycz,”Software Engineering, An Engineering Approach”, Wiley-India, 2007.

3.    Stephen R.Schach, “ Software Engineering”, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited, 2007.

S.A.Kelk