This discipline consists of the study of the main concepts and approaches of software engineering. The practical part consists of the realization of a group work that applies the approaches learned to case studies to consolidate the theoretical knowledge. In summary, the objectives of this discipline consists of:

• To expose students to the problems that emerge in conducting large and complex software development projects.
• To get hands-on experience on currently used solutions to manage large and complex software projects; this will be achieved by enrolling students in a open-source project supported by a well known open-source community.
• To get acquainted with some high-level, up-to-date topics in Software Engineering, including new methods, techniques and tools.

Knowledge:

• The principles, objectives and key concepts of Software Engineering.
• The issues of software development on a large scale.
• Software management.
• Techniques and tools for requirements engineering.
• Basic styles of architectural design.
• Variability Management: Software Product Lines.
• Software quality.
• Verification and Validation (V&V).
• Software evolution.

Application:

• Manage a software Project, including people, tasks and costs.
• Identify and specify the various types of requirements.
• Select architectural alternatives.
• Model and design software for large scale reuse.
• Model and design software for evolution.
• Apply V&V techniques.
• Apply and use software engineering techniques and tools.

1. Motivation to Software Engineering

1.1 Principles and objectives of Software Engineering

1.2 Concepts, software activities, professional ethics

2. Software process models

2.1 Traditional software life cycle models (waterfall, iterative and incremental, spiral)

2.2. Agile development

3. Software management

3.1 Estimation costs

3.2 Managing people

3.3 Risk management

4. Business process modelling

4.1 Enterprise modeling

4.2 Modeling business processes with BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation)

4. Requirements

4.1 Concepts and activities of requirements engineering

4.2 Requirements models (e.g. KAOS)

5. Software architecture and design

5.1 Introduction to architectural design

5.2 From requirements to design

5.3 User design interface

6. Variability Management: software product lines

6.1 Concepts (commonalities and variabilities, planned reuse, configuration and derivation)

6.2 Domain engineering

6.3 Application engineering

6.4 Variability modeling

7. Software quality

7.1 Maturity models (PSP, TSP, CMMI)

7.2 V&V concepts

7.3 Prototyping

8. Software evolution

8.1 Software aging

8.2 Software change

8.3 Configuration management

• I. Sommerville, Software Engineering,Pearson, 10th edition, 2015
• R.S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner''''''''s Approach, 8th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2014
• B. Hughes, M. Cotterell, Software Project Management, McGraw-Hill Higher Education; 5th edition, 2009.
• A. Lamsweerde, Requirements Engineering, Wiley, 2009
• I. Alexander, N. Maiden, Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases: Through the Systems Development Life-Cycle, Wiley, 2004
• S. Pfleeger, J. Atlee, Software Engineering - Theory and Practice, Prentice Hall, 2005
• L. Bass, P. Clements, R. Kazman, "Software Architecture in Practice", 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley, 2012.
• C. Kaner, J. Falk, H. Q. Nguyen, Testing Computer Software, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 1999
• T. Mens, S. Demeyer, Software Evolution, Springer, 2010

Methods of software development