Software Engineering Course Description and Syllabus, Exercises of Software Engineering

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

COURANT INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Spring 2020 - Jean-Claude FRANCHITTI

Each phase of the life cycle contributes to a reliable, maintainable product that satisfies

user requirements. The application of good engineering practices throughout the cycle

dramatically improves the likelihood of delivering a quality software project on time,

in scope and within budget. While there are many rigorous methodologies, in fact most

approaches and tools have a mixture of strengths and weaknesses. Traditional

development approaches result in models that are incomplete and quickly become out-

of-sync with the application source code. Many modeling approaches focus on

describing software designs, rather than solving business problems.

This course presents modern software engineering techniques and examines the

software life-cycle, including software specification, design, implementation, testing

increased software quality, higher customer satisfaction and reduced developer

turnover. Agile development techniques empower teams to overcome time-to-market

pressures and volatile requirements. The course gives an overview of methods and

techniques used in agile software processes, contrasts agile approaches with traditional

software development methods, and discuss the sweet spots of both classes of

methodologies. Other non-agile approaches that are widely used in industry such as the

Rational Unified Process (RUP) and the Open Process Framework (OPF) will also be

covered. Process improvement initiatives such as the Capability Maturity Model

(CMM) and Personal Software Process (PSP) will be discussed.

This course is designed for anyone interested in learning how to understand