Section-A
Introduction: The process, software products, emergence of software engineering, evolving role of software, software life cycle
models, Software Characteristics, Applications, Software crisis.
Software project management: Project management concepts, software process and project metrics Project planning, project
size estimation metrics, project estimation Techniques, empirical estimation techniques, COCOMO- A Heuristic estimation techniques,
staffing level estimation, team structures, staffing, risk analysis and management, project scheduling and tracking.
Section-B
Requirements Analysis and specification requirements engineering, system modeling and simulation Analysis principles
modeling, partitioning Software, prototyping: , Prototyping methods and tools; Specification principles, Representation, the software
requirements specification and reviews Analysis Modeling: Data Modeling, Functional modeling and information flow: Data flow
diagrams, Behavioral Modeling; The mechanics of structured analysis: Creating entity/ relationship diagram, data flow model, control
flow model, the control and process specification; The data dictionary; Other classical analysis methods.
System Design: Design concepts and principles: the design process: Design and software quality, design principles; Design concepts:
Abstraction, refinement, modularity, software architecture, control hierarchy, structural partitioning, data structure, software procedure,
information hiding; Effective modular design: Functional independence, Cohesion, Coupling; Design Heuristics for effective
modularity; The design model; Design documentation.
Section-C
Architectural Design: Software architecture, Data Design: Data modeling, data structures, databases and the data warehouse,
Analyzing alternative Architectural Designs ,architectural complexity; Mapping requirements into a software architecture; Transform
flow, Transaction flow; Transform mapping: Refining the architectural design.
Testing and maintenance: Software Testing Techniques, software testing fundamentals: objectives, principles, testability; Test
case design, white box testing, basis path testing: Control structure testing: Black box testing, testing for specialized environments
,architectures and applications. Software Testing Strategies: Verification and validation, Unit testing, Integration testing,; Validation
testing, alpha and beta testing; System testing: Recovery testing, security testing, stress testing, performance testing; The art of
debugging, the debugging process debugging approaches. Software re-engineering , reverse engineering ,restructuring, forward
engineering.
Section-D
Software Reliability and Quality Assurance :Quality concepts, Software quality assurance , SQA activities; Software
reviews: cost impact of software defects, defect amplification and removal; formal technical reviews: The review meeting, review
reporting and record keeping, review guidelines; Formal approaches to SQA; Statistical software quality assurance; software reliability:
Measures of reliability and availability ,The ISO 9000 Quality standards: The ISO approach to quality assurance systems, The ISO 9001
standard, Software Configuration Management.
Computer Aided software Engineering: CASE, building blocks, integrated case environments and architecture, repository.