Software engineering

OpenStax

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0.1 Description

0.2 Course objectives

0.3 Prerequisites

0.4 Organization

0.6 Grading plan

0.8 Suggestions for success

0.1 Introduction

0.2 What is software?

0.3 What is software engineering?

0.4 What’s the difference between software engineering and computer science

0.5 What is the difference between software engineering and system engineering

0.6 What is a software process?

0.7 What is a software process model?

0.8 What are the costs of software engineering?

0.9 What are software engineering methods?

0.10 What is case?

0.11 What are the attributes of good software?

0.12 What are the key challenges facing software engineering?

0.13 Professional and ethical responsibility

1 Software development process

1.1 Processes and meta-processes

1.2 Process activities/steps

1.3 Process models

1.4 Waterfall process

1.5 Iterative process

2 Requirements analysis

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Software requirements fundamentals

2.3 Definition of a software requirement

2.4 Product and process requirements

2.5 Functional and non-functional requirements

2.6 Emergent properties

2.7 Quantifiable requirements

2.8 System requirements and software requirements

2.9 Requirements process

2.10 Process models

2.11 Process actors

2.12 Process support and management

2.13 Process quality and improvement

2.14 Requirements elicitation

2.15 Requirements sources

2.16 Elicitation techniques

2.17 Requirements analysis

2.18 Requirements classification

2.19 Conceptual modeling

2.20 Architectural design and requirements allocation

2.21 Requirements negotiation

2.22 Requirements specification

2.23 The system definition document

2.24 System requirements specification

2.25 Software requirements specification

2.26 Requirements validation

2.27 Requirements reviews

2.28 Prototyping

2.29 Model validation

2.30 Acceptance tests

2.31 Practical considerations

2.32 Iterative nature of the requirements process

2.33 Change management

2.34 Requirements attributes

2.35 Requirements tracing

2.36 Measuring requirements

3 Software design

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Concepts of software design

3.3 General design concepts

3.4 Context of software design

3.5 Software design process

3.6 Architectural design

3.7 Detailed design

3.8 Enabling techniques

3.9 Abstraction

3.10 Coupling and cohesion

3.11 Decomposition and modularization

3.12 Encapsulation/information hiding

3.13 Separation of interface and implementation

3.14 Sufficiency, completeness and primitiveness

3.15 Software structure and architecture

3.16 Architectural structures and viewpoints

3.17 Design patterns

3.18 Families of programs and frameworks

3.19 Software design quality analysis and evaluation

3.20 Quality attributes

3.21 Quality analysis and evaluation techniques

3.23 Software design notations

3.24 Structural descriptions (static view)

3.25 Behavioral descriptions (dynamic view)

3.26 Software design strategies and methods

3.27 General strategies

3.28 Function-oriented (structured) design

3.29 Object-oriented design

3.30 Data-structure-centered design

3.31 Component-based design (cbd)

3.32 Other methods

4 Software construction

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Software construction fundamentals

4.3 Minimizing complexity

4.4 Anticipating change

4.5 Constructing for verification

4.6 Standards in construction

4.7 Managing construction

4.8 Construction models

4.9 Construction planning

4.10 Construction measurement

4.11 Practical considerations

4.12 Construction design

4.13 Construction languages

4.14 Object-oriented languages

4.19 Construction testing

4.21 Construction quality

4.22 Integration

5 Software testing

5.1 Introduction

5.2 To improve quality

5.3 For verification & Validation (v & V)

5.4 For reliability estimation

5.5 Test levels

5.6 The target of the test

5.7 Unit testing

5.8 Integration testing

5.9 System testing

5.10 Objectives of testing

5.11 Qualification testing

5.12 Installation testing

5.13 Alpha and beta testing

5.14 Reliability achievement and evaluation

5.15 Regression testing

5.16 Correctness testing

5.17 Black-box testing

5.18 White-box testing

5.19 Performance testing

5.20 Security testing

5.21 Testing automation

5.22 When to stop testing?

5.23 Alternatives to testing

5.24 Test techniques

5.25 Based on the software engineer’s intuition and experience

5.26 Ad hoc testing

5.27 Exploratory testing

5.28 Specification-based techniques

5.29 Equivalence partitioning

5.30 Boundary-value analysis

5.31 Decision table

5.32 Finite-state machine-based

5.33 Testing from formal specifications

5.34 Random testing

5.35 Code-based techniques

5.36 Control-flow-based criteria

5.37 Data flow-based criteria

5.38 Reference models for code-based testing

5.39 Fault-based techniques

5.40 Error guessing

5.41 Mutation testing

5.42 Usage-based techniques

5.43 Operational profile

5.44 Software reliability engineered testing

5.45 Techniques based on the nature of the application

5.46 Selecting and combining techniques

5.47 Functional and structural

5.48 Deterministic vs. random

5.50 Evaluation of the program under test (ieee982.1-98)

5.51 Program measurements to aid in planning and designing testing (iee982.

5.52 Fault types, classification, and statistics (eee1044-93)

5.53 Fault density (ieee982.1-88)

5.54 Life test, reliability evaluation

5.55 Reliability growth models

5.56 Evaluation of the tests performed

5.57 Coverage/thoroughness measures (ieee982.1-88)

5.58 Fault seeding

5.59 Mutation score

5.60 Comparison and relative effectiveness of different techniques

5.61 Test process

5.62 Practical considerations

5.63 Attitudes/egoless programming

5.64 Test guides

5.65 Test process management (ieee1074-97, ieee12207.0-96:s5.3.9)

5.66 Test documentation and work products (ieee829-98)

5.67 Internal vs. independent test team

5.68 Cost/effort estimation and other process measures (ieee982.1-88)

5.69 Termination

5.70 Test reuse and test patterns

5.71 Test activities

5.73 Test-case generation

5.74 Test environment development

5.76 Test results evaluation

5.77 Problem reporting/test log

5.78 Defect tracking

6 Software maintenance

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Software maintenance fundamentals

6.3 Definitions and terminology

6.4 Nature of maintenance

6.5 Need for maintenance

6.6 Majority of maintenance costs

6.7 Evolution of software

6.8 Categories of maintenance

6.9 Key issues in software maintenance

6.10 Technical issues

6.11 Limited understanding

6.13 Impact analysis

6.14 Maintainability

6.15 Management issues

6.16 Alignment with organizational objectives

6.19 Organizational aspects of maintenance

6.20 Outsourcing

6.21 Maintenance cost estimation

6.22 Cost estimation

6.23 Parametric models

6.24 Experience

6.25 Software maintenance measurement

6.26 Specific measures

6.27 Maintenance process

6.28 Maintenance processes

6.29 Maintenance activities

6.30 Unique activities

6.31 Supporting activities

6.32 Maintenance planning activity

6.33 Software configuration management

6.34 Software quality

6.35 Techniques for maintenance

6.36 Program comprehension

6.37 Reengineering

6.38 Reverse engineering

6.40 Introduction

6.41 Commercially available products

6.42 Summary of tools

7 Software configuration management

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Management of the scm process

7.3 Organizational context for scm

7.4 Constraints and guidance for the scm process

7.5 Planning for scm

7.6 Scm organization and responsibilities

7.7 Scm resources and schedules

7.8 Tool selection and implementation

7.9 Vendor/subcontractor control

7.10 Interface control

7.12 Surveillance of software configuration management

7.13 Scm measures and measurement

7.14 In-process audits of scm

7.15 Software configuration identification

7.16 Identifying items to be controlled

7.17 Software configuration

7.18 Software configuration item

7.19 Software configuration item relationships

7.20 Software version

7.22 Acquiring software configuration items

7.23 Software library

7.24 Software configuration control

7.25 Requesting, evaluating, and approving software changes

7.26 Software configuration control board

7.27 Software change request process

7.28 Implementing software changes

7.29 Deviations and waivers

7.30 Software configuration status accounting

7.31 Software configuration status information

7.32 Software configuration status reporting

7.33 Software configuration auditing

7.34 Software functional configuration audit

7.35 Software physical configuration audit

7.36 In-process audits of a software baseline

7.37 Software release management and delivery

7.38 Software building

7.39 Software release management

8 Software quality management

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Software quality fundamentals

8.3 Software engineering culture and ethics

8.4 Value and costs of quality

8.5 Models and quality characteristics

8.6 Software engineering process quality

8.7 Software product quality

8.8 Quality improvement

8.9 Software quality management processes

8.10 Software quality assurance

8.11 Verification & Validation

8.12 Reviews and audits

8.13 Management reviews

8.14 Technical reviews

8.15 Inspections

8.16 Walk-throughs

8.18 Practical considerations

8.19 Software quality requirements

8.20 Influence factors

8.21 Dependability

8.22 Integrity levels of software

8.23 Defect characterization

8.24 Software quality management techniques

8.25 Static techniques

8.26 People-intensive techniques

8.27 Analytical techniques

8.28 Dynamic techniques

8.30 Software quality measurement

9 Software engineering management

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Topics for software engineering management

9.3 Initiation and scope definition

9.4 Determination and negotiation of requirements

9.5 Feasibility analysis

9.6 Process for the review and revision of requirements

9.7 Software project planning

9.8 Process planning

9.9 Determine deliverables

9.10 Effort, schedule, and cost estimation

9.11 Resource allocation

9.12 Risk management

9.13 Quality management

9.14 Plan management

9.15 Software project enactment

9.16 Implementation of plans

9.17 Supplier contract management

9.18 Implementation of measurement process

9.19 Monitor process

9.20 Control process

9.22 Review and evaluation

9.23 Determining satisfaction of requirements

9.24 Reviewing and evaluating performance

9.26 Determining closure

9.27 Closure activities

9.28 Software engineering measurement

9.29 Establish and sustain measurement commitment

9.30 Plan the measurement process

9.31 Perform the measurement process

9.32 Evaluate measurement

Source: OpenStax, Software engineering. OpenStax CNX. Jul 29, 2009 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10790/1.1

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