This document summarizes key aspects of software processes and models. It discusses the basic activities involved in software development like specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution. It describes process models like waterfall, incremental development and reuse-oriented processes. The waterfall model involves sequential phases while incremental development interleaves activities. Validation includes testing stages from unit to system level. The document also covers designing for change and evolution.
This document discusses software processes and models. It covers the following key points:
1. Software processes involve activities like specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution to develop software systems. Common process models include waterfall, incremental development and reuse-oriented development.
2. Processes need to cope with inevitable changes. This can involve prototyping to avoid rework or using incremental development and delivery to more easily accommodate changes.
3. The Rational Unified Process is a modern process model with phases for inception, elaboration, construction and transition. It advocates iterative development and managing requirements and quality.
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th Edition Ch 4Mohammed Romi
The document discusses requirements engineering and summarizes key topics covered in Chapter 4, including:
- The importance of specifying both functional and non-functional requirements. Non-functional requirements place constraints on system functions and development process.
- The software requirements specification document defines what the system must do and includes both user and system requirements. It should not describe how the system will be implemented.
- Requirements engineering involves eliciting, analyzing, validating and managing requirements throughout the development lifecycle. Precise, complete and consistent requirements are important for development.
This document provides an introduction to software engineering topics including:
1. What software engineering is, its importance, and the software development lifecycle activities it encompasses.
2. The many different types of software systems that exist and how software engineering approaches vary depending on the application.
3. Key fundamentals of software engineering that apply universally, including managing development processes, dependability, and reusing existing software components.
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th Edition Ch1Mohammed Romi
The document provides an introduction to software engineering concepts. It discusses what software engineering is, the importance of ethics in software development, and introduces three case studies that will be used as examples throughout the book. Specifically:
[1] It defines software engineering as an engineering discipline concerned with all aspects of software production. Professional and ethical practices are important.
[2] It discusses software engineering ethics and introduces the ACM/IEEE code of ethics for software engineers.
[3] It provides an overview of three case studies that will be referenced in later chapters: an insulin pump system, a patient management system, and a weather station system.
System modeling involves creating abstract models of a system from different perspectives, such as context, interactions, structure, and behavior. These models help analysts understand system functionality and communicate with customers. Context models show a system's external environment and relationships. Interaction models, such as use case and sequence diagrams, depict how users and systems interact. Structural models, like class diagrams, represent a system's internal organization. Behavioral models, including activity and state diagrams, illustrate a system's dynamic response to events or data. Model-driven engineering aims to generate implementation from system models.
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th EditionCh 8Mohammed Romi
The document discusses different types of software testing including unit testing, component testing, and system testing. Unit testing involves testing individual program components in isolation through techniques like partition testing and guideline-based testing. Component testing focuses on testing interactions between components through their interfaces. System testing integrates components to test their interactions and check for emergent behaviors that are not explicitly defined. The document also covers test-driven development, which involves writing tests before code in incremental cycles.
Architectural design involves identifying major system components and their communications. Architectural views provide different perspectives of the system, such as conceptual, logical, process, and development views. Common architectural patterns include model-view-controller, layered, client-server, and pipe-and-filter architectures. Application architectures define common structures for transaction processing, information, and language processing systems.
This document provides an overview of topics covered in Chapter 7 on software design and implementation, including object-oriented design using UML, design patterns, implementation issues, and open source development. It discusses the design and implementation process, build vs buy approaches, object-oriented design processes involving system models, and key activities like defining system context, identifying objects and interfaces. Specific examples are provided for designing a wilderness weather station system.
This document discusses software processes and models. It covers the following key points:
1. Software processes involve activities like specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution to develop software systems. Common process models include waterfall, incremental development and reuse-oriented development.
2. Processes need to cope with inevitable changes. This can involve prototyping to avoid rework or using incremental development and delivery to more easily accommodate changes.
3. The Rational Unified Process is a modern process model with phases for inception, elaboration, construction and transition. It advocates iterative development and managing requirements and quality.
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th Edition Ch 4Mohammed Romi
The document discusses requirements engineering and summarizes key topics covered in Chapter 4, including:
- The importance of specifying both functional and non-functional requirements. Non-functional requirements place constraints on system functions and development process.
- The software requirements specification document defines what the system must do and includes both user and system requirements. It should not describe how the system will be implemented.
- Requirements engineering involves eliciting, analyzing, validating and managing requirements throughout the development lifecycle. Precise, complete and consistent requirements are important for development.
This document provides an introduction to software engineering topics including:
1. What software engineering is, its importance, and the software development lifecycle activities it encompasses.
2. The many different types of software systems that exist and how software engineering approaches vary depending on the application.
3. Key fundamentals of software engineering that apply universally, including managing development processes, dependability, and reusing existing software components.
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th Edition Ch1Mohammed Romi
The document provides an introduction to software engineering concepts. It discusses what software engineering is, the importance of ethics in software development, and introduces three case studies that will be used as examples throughout the book. Specifically:
[1] It defines software engineering as an engineering discipline concerned with all aspects of software production. Professional and ethical practices are important.
[2] It discusses software engineering ethics and introduces the ACM/IEEE code of ethics for software engineers.
[3] It provides an overview of three case studies that will be referenced in later chapters: an insulin pump system, a patient management system, and a weather station system.
System modeling involves creating abstract models of a system from different perspectives, such as context, interactions, structure, and behavior. These models help analysts understand system functionality and communicate with customers. Context models show a system's external environment and relationships. Interaction models, such as use case and sequence diagrams, depict how users and systems interact. Structural models, like class diagrams, represent a system's internal organization. Behavioral models, including activity and state diagrams, illustrate a system's dynamic response to events or data. Model-driven engineering aims to generate implementation from system models.
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th EditionCh 8Mohammed Romi
The document discusses different types of software testing including unit testing, component testing, and system testing. Unit testing involves testing individual program components in isolation through techniques like partition testing and guideline-based testing. Component testing focuses on testing interactions between components through their interfaces. System testing integrates components to test their interactions and check for emergent behaviors that are not explicitly defined. The document also covers test-driven development, which involves writing tests before code in incremental cycles.
Architectural design involves identifying major system components and their communications. Architectural views provide different perspectives of the system, such as conceptual, logical, process, and development views. Common architectural patterns include model-view-controller, layered, client-server, and pipe-and-filter architectures. Application architectures define common structures for transaction processing, information, and language processing systems.
This document provides an overview of topics covered in Chapter 7 on software design and implementation, including object-oriented design using UML, design patterns, implementation issues, and open source development. It discusses the design and implementation process, build vs buy approaches, object-oriented design processes involving system models, and key activities like defining system context, identifying objects and interfaces. Specific examples are provided for designing a wilderness weather station system.
This document discusses agile software development methods. It covers topics like agile principles, extreme programming practices including test-driven development and pair programming. It also discusses scaling agile methods to larger projects using scrum, with sprints and daily stand-up meetings. Some challenges of applying agile to large, long-term projects with distributed teams are also outlined.
The document discusses requirements engineering for software systems. It covers topics like functional and non-functional requirements, the software requirements document, requirements specification processes, and requirements elicitation, analysis, and management. Requirements engineering is the process of establishing customer needs for a system and constraints for its development and operation. Requirements can range from abstract to highly detailed and serve different purposes depending on their intended use.
This document discusses software reuse and application frameworks. It covers the benefits of software reuse like accelerated development and increased dependability. Application frameworks provide a reusable architecture for related applications and are implemented by adding components and instantiating abstract classes. Web application frameworks in particular use the model-view-controller pattern to support dynamic websites as a front-end for web applications.
This document discusses key topics in systems engineering, including:
1) Systems engineering involves procuring, designing, implementing, and maintaining sociotechnical systems that include both technical and human elements.
2) Software systems are part of broader sociotechnical systems and software engineers must consider human, social, and organizational factors.
3) Sociotechnical systems have emergent properties that depend on the interactions between system components and cannot be understood by examining the components individually.
This document provides an introduction and overview of key topics in software engineering. It discusses what software engineering is, the importance and costs of software development, different types of software projects and applications, and issues like complexity, security and scale that affect software. It also introduces software engineering processes, methods, and ethics. Common questions about the field are addressed. The document is the first chapter of a book on software engineering.
Software evolution involves making ongoing changes to software systems to address new requirements, fix errors, and improve performance. There are several approaches to managing software evolution, including maintenance, reengineering, refactoring, and legacy system management. Key considerations for legacy systems include assessing their business value and quality to determine whether they should be replaced, transformed, or maintained.
The document discusses various types of software testing:
- Development testing includes unit, component, and system testing to discover defects.
- Release testing is done by a separate team to validate the software meets requirements before release.
- User testing involves potential users testing the system in their own environment.
The goals of testing are validation, to ensure requirements are met, and defect testing to discover faults. Automated unit testing and test-driven development help improve test coverage and regression testing.
This chapter discusses system modeling and different types of models used, including:
- Context models which illustrate the operational context of a system.
- Interaction models which model interactions between a system and its environment.
- Structural models which display the organization of a system's components.
- Behavioral models which model a system's dynamic behavior in response to events or data.
- Model-driven engineering is discussed as an approach where models rather than code are the primary outputs.
This document discusses configuration management (CM) and version control. It covers topics like version management, system building, change management, and release management. CM is important for software development as it allows tracking of changing software systems and components. Version control systems are key to CM, identifying and storing different versions. They support independent development through a shared repository and private workspaces. Developers check components in and out to make changes separately without interfering with each other.
The document discusses different types of software testing:
- Development testing includes unit, component, and system testing to discover bugs during development. Unit testing involves testing individual program units in isolation.
- Release testing is done by a separate team to test a complete version before public release.
- User testing involves potential users testing the system in their own environment.
The goals of testing are to demonstrate that software meets requirements and to discover incorrect or undesirable behavior to find defects. Different testing types include validation testing to check correct functionality and defect testing to uncover bugs. Both inspections and testing are important and complementary methods in software verification.
The document discusses software architecture design. It defines software architecture as the structure of components, relationships between components, and properties of components. An architectural design model can be applied to other systems and represents predictable ways to describe architecture. The architecture represents a system and enables analysis of effectiveness in meeting requirements and reducing risks. Key aspects of architectural design include communication between stakeholders, controlling complexity, consistency, reducing risks, and enabling reuse. Common architectural styles discussed include data-centered, data flow, call-and-return, object-oriented, and layered architectures.
The document discusses chapter 7 of a software engineering textbook which covers design and implementation. It begins by outlining the topics to be covered, including object-oriented design using UML, design patterns, and implementation issues. It then discusses the software design and implementation process, considerations around building versus buying systems, and approaches to object-oriented design using UML.
This document provides an overview of key topics in service-oriented architecture (SOA) including:
- Services can be implemented as reusable components that are independent of the applications that use them.
- Web services standards like SOAP, WSDL, and WS-BPEL allow services to be described and composed into workflows.
- Service-oriented development involves identifying candidate services, designing service interfaces, and implementing and deploying services. Existing systems can be wrapped as services to promote reuse.
This document discusses quality management in software development. It covers topics like software quality, standards, reviews/inspections, quality management in agile development, and software measurement. Regarding quality management, the key points are that it provides an independent check on the development process, ensures deliverables meet goals/standards, and the quality team should be independent from developers. Quality plans set quality goals and define assessment processes and standards to apply. Quality management is important for large, complex systems and focuses on establishing a quality culture for smaller systems.
This document provides an overview of agile software development methods, including extreme programming (XP) and Scrum. It discusses key principles of agile development like iterative delivery, customer involvement, and responding to change. XP practices like test-driven development, pair programming, and refactoring are explained. The document also covers how Scrum uses sprints to iteratively develop software in increments.
The document discusses several topics related to software project management including risk management, managing people, and teamwork. It describes the key activities of a project manager including planning, risk assessment, people management, reporting, and proposal writing. Specific risks at the project, product, and business levels are defined and strategies for risk identification, analysis, planning, monitoring, and mitigation are outlined. Effective people management is also emphasized, including motivating team members through satisfying different human needs and personality types. A case study demonstrates how addressing an individual team member's motivation issues can improve project outcomes.
The document discusses agile software development methods. It covers topics like agile methods, techniques, and project management. Agile development aims to rapidly develop and deliver working software through iterative processes, customer collaboration, and responding to changing requirements. Extreme programming (XP) is an influential agile method that uses practices like test-driven development, pair programming, frequent refactoring, and user stories for requirements specification. The key principles of agile methods are also outlined.
The document discusses agile software development methods. It covers topics like agile methods, techniques, and project management. Rapid and iterative development is emphasized to quickly adapt to changing requirements. Methods like Extreme Programming (XP) use practices like user stories, test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous refactoring to develop working software in short iterations.
The document discusses architectural design and various architectural concepts. It covers topics like architectural design decisions, architectural views using different models, common architectural patterns like MVC and layered architectures, application architectures, and how architectural design is concerned with organizing a software system and identifying its main structural components and relationships.
System Models in Software Engineering SE7koolkampus
The document discusses various types of system models used in requirements engineering including context models, behavioral models, data models, object models, and how CASE workbenches support system modeling. It describes behavioral models like data flow diagrams and state machine models, data models like entity-relationship diagrams, and object models using the Unified Modeling Language. CASE tools can support modeling through features like diagram editors, repositories, and code generation.
This document discusses different types of intelligent agents and their environments. It defines rational agents as those that do the right thing given their percepts and goals. The document outlines different types of agent architectures, including simple reflex agents, model-based reflex agents, goal-based agents, and utility-based agents. It also discusses properties of task environments and examples of different environments. Learning agents are introduced as agents that can improve their performance over time through experience.
The document discusses architectural design in software engineering. It covers topics like architectural design decisions, views, patterns, and application architectures. Architectural design involves identifying major system components and their communications in order to represent the link between specification and design processes. Common architectural patterns discussed include model-view-controller, layered architectures, repositories, client-server, pipes and filters. The document also provides examples of architectures for different types of applications like transaction processing systems and information systems.
This document discusses agile software development methods. It covers topics like agile principles, extreme programming practices including test-driven development and pair programming. It also discusses scaling agile methods to larger projects using scrum, with sprints and daily stand-up meetings. Some challenges of applying agile to large, long-term projects with distributed teams are also outlined.
The document discusses requirements engineering for software systems. It covers topics like functional and non-functional requirements, the software requirements document, requirements specification processes, and requirements elicitation, analysis, and management. Requirements engineering is the process of establishing customer needs for a system and constraints for its development and operation. Requirements can range from abstract to highly detailed and serve different purposes depending on their intended use.
This document discusses software reuse and application frameworks. It covers the benefits of software reuse like accelerated development and increased dependability. Application frameworks provide a reusable architecture for related applications and are implemented by adding components and instantiating abstract classes. Web application frameworks in particular use the model-view-controller pattern to support dynamic websites as a front-end for web applications.
This document discusses key topics in systems engineering, including:
1) Systems engineering involves procuring, designing, implementing, and maintaining sociotechnical systems that include both technical and human elements.
2) Software systems are part of broader sociotechnical systems and software engineers must consider human, social, and organizational factors.
3) Sociotechnical systems have emergent properties that depend on the interactions between system components and cannot be understood by examining the components individually.
This document provides an introduction and overview of key topics in software engineering. It discusses what software engineering is, the importance and costs of software development, different types of software projects and applications, and issues like complexity, security and scale that affect software. It also introduces software engineering processes, methods, and ethics. Common questions about the field are addressed. The document is the first chapter of a book on software engineering.
Software evolution involves making ongoing changes to software systems to address new requirements, fix errors, and improve performance. There are several approaches to managing software evolution, including maintenance, reengineering, refactoring, and legacy system management. Key considerations for legacy systems include assessing their business value and quality to determine whether they should be replaced, transformed, or maintained.
The document discusses various types of software testing:
- Development testing includes unit, component, and system testing to discover defects.
- Release testing is done by a separate team to validate the software meets requirements before release.
- User testing involves potential users testing the system in their own environment.
The goals of testing are validation, to ensure requirements are met, and defect testing to discover faults. Automated unit testing and test-driven development help improve test coverage and regression testing.
This chapter discusses system modeling and different types of models used, including:
- Context models which illustrate the operational context of a system.
- Interaction models which model interactions between a system and its environment.
- Structural models which display the organization of a system's components.
- Behavioral models which model a system's dynamic behavior in response to events or data.
- Model-driven engineering is discussed as an approach where models rather than code are the primary outputs.
This document discusses configuration management (CM) and version control. It covers topics like version management, system building, change management, and release management. CM is important for software development as it allows tracking of changing software systems and components. Version control systems are key to CM, identifying and storing different versions. They support independent development through a shared repository and private workspaces. Developers check components in and out to make changes separately without interfering with each other.
The document discusses different types of software testing:
- Development testing includes unit, component, and system testing to discover bugs during development. Unit testing involves testing individual program units in isolation.
- Release testing is done by a separate team to test a complete version before public release.
- User testing involves potential users testing the system in their own environment.
The goals of testing are to demonstrate that software meets requirements and to discover incorrect or undesirable behavior to find defects. Different testing types include validation testing to check correct functionality and defect testing to uncover bugs. Both inspections and testing are important and complementary methods in software verification.
The document discusses software architecture design. It defines software architecture as the structure of components, relationships between components, and properties of components. An architectural design model can be applied to other systems and represents predictable ways to describe architecture. The architecture represents a system and enables analysis of effectiveness in meeting requirements and reducing risks. Key aspects of architectural design include communication between stakeholders, controlling complexity, consistency, reducing risks, and enabling reuse. Common architectural styles discussed include data-centered, data flow, call-and-return, object-oriented, and layered architectures.
The document discusses chapter 7 of a software engineering textbook which covers design and implementation. It begins by outlining the topics to be covered, including object-oriented design using UML, design patterns, and implementation issues. It then discusses the software design and implementation process, considerations around building versus buying systems, and approaches to object-oriented design using UML.
This document provides an overview of key topics in service-oriented architecture (SOA) including:
- Services can be implemented as reusable components that are independent of the applications that use them.
- Web services standards like SOAP, WSDL, and WS-BPEL allow services to be described and composed into workflows.
- Service-oriented development involves identifying candidate services, designing service interfaces, and implementing and deploying services. Existing systems can be wrapped as services to promote reuse.
This document discusses quality management in software development. It covers topics like software quality, standards, reviews/inspections, quality management in agile development, and software measurement. Regarding quality management, the key points are that it provides an independent check on the development process, ensures deliverables meet goals/standards, and the quality team should be independent from developers. Quality plans set quality goals and define assessment processes and standards to apply. Quality management is important for large, complex systems and focuses on establishing a quality culture for smaller systems.
This document provides an overview of agile software development methods, including extreme programming (XP) and Scrum. It discusses key principles of agile development like iterative delivery, customer involvement, and responding to change. XP practices like test-driven development, pair programming, and refactoring are explained. The document also covers how Scrum uses sprints to iteratively develop software in increments.
The document discusses several topics related to software project management including risk management, managing people, and teamwork. It describes the key activities of a project manager including planning, risk assessment, people management, reporting, and proposal writing. Specific risks at the project, product, and business levels are defined and strategies for risk identification, analysis, planning, monitoring, and mitigation are outlined. Effective people management is also emphasized, including motivating team members through satisfying different human needs and personality types. A case study demonstrates how addressing an individual team member's motivation issues can improve project outcomes.
The document discusses agile software development methods. It covers topics like agile methods, techniques, and project management. Agile development aims to rapidly develop and deliver working software through iterative processes, customer collaboration, and responding to changing requirements. Extreme programming (XP) is an influential agile method that uses practices like test-driven development, pair programming, frequent refactoring, and user stories for requirements specification. The key principles of agile methods are also outlined.
The document discusses agile software development methods. It covers topics like agile methods, techniques, and project management. Rapid and iterative development is emphasized to quickly adapt to changing requirements. Methods like Extreme Programming (XP) use practices like user stories, test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous refactoring to develop working software in short iterations.
The document discusses architectural design and various architectural concepts. It covers topics like architectural design decisions, architectural views using different models, common architectural patterns like MVC and layered architectures, application architectures, and how architectural design is concerned with organizing a software system and identifying its main structural components and relationships.
System Models in Software Engineering SE7koolkampus
The document discusses various types of system models used in requirements engineering including context models, behavioral models, data models, object models, and how CASE workbenches support system modeling. It describes behavioral models like data flow diagrams and state machine models, data models like entity-relationship diagrams, and object models using the Unified Modeling Language. CASE tools can support modeling through features like diagram editors, repositories, and code generation.
This document discusses different types of intelligent agents and their environments. It defines rational agents as those that do the right thing given their percepts and goals. The document outlines different types of agent architectures, including simple reflex agents, model-based reflex agents, goal-based agents, and utility-based agents. It also discusses properties of task environments and examples of different environments. Learning agents are introduced as agents that can improve their performance over time through experience.
The document discusses architectural design in software engineering. It covers topics like architectural design decisions, views, patterns, and application architectures. Architectural design involves identifying major system components and their communications in order to represent the link between specification and design processes. Common architectural patterns discussed include model-view-controller, layered architectures, repositories, client-server, pipes and filters. The document also provides examples of architectures for different types of applications like transaction processing systems and information systems.
1. The document discusses different types of switched networks including circuit-switched, datagram, and virtual circuit networks. It describes the key characteristics of each type.
2. Circuit switching uses dedicated paths between nodes and has three phases: setup, data transfer, and teardown. Datagram networks treat each packet independently and route using destination addresses in packet headers. Virtual circuit networks combine aspects of circuit and datagram switching.
3. The structures of switches used in different networks are examined, including crossbar switches for circuit switching and various designs for packet switches like Banyan networks.
The document discusses problem-solving agents and uninformed search strategies. It introduces problem-solving agents as goal-based agents that try to find sequences of actions that lead to desirable goal states. It then discusses formulating problems by defining the initial state, actions, goal test, and cost function. Several examples of problems are provided, like the Romania tour problem. Uninformed search strategies like breadth-first search, uniform-cost search, and depth-first search are then introduced as strategies that use only the problem definition, not heuristics. Breadth-first search expands nodes in order of shallowest depth first, while depth-first search expands the deepest node in the frontier first.
This document discusses the history and foundations of artificial intelligence. It covers early developments in the 1940s-1950s that led to the birth of AI as a field at the 1956 Dartmouth conference. It describes successes and challenges in the 1960s-1970s, the rise of knowledge-based systems and expert systems in the 1970s, and AI becoming an industry in the 1980s. The return of neural networks in the 1980s-1990s is also summarized. The document outlines different approaches to defining and pursuing AI, including systems that think like humans, think rationally, act like humans, and act rationally. It lists philosophy, mathematics, neuroscience, and other disciplines as foundations of AI.
This document summarizes key aspects of software engineering processes and models. It discusses the fundamental activities of software specification, development, validation, and evolution. It describes plan-driven and incremental process models like the waterfall model and incremental development. It also covers topics like software prototyping, reuse-oriented processes, and coping with changing requirements through change avoidance and change tolerance strategies.
The document discusses requirements engineering and summarizes key topics covered in Chapter 4, including:
- Functional and non-functional requirements and how they differ
- The structure and purpose of a software requirements specification document
- Methods for specifying requirements such as using natural language, structured specifications, and tables
- Challenges in writing requirements clearly and avoiding ambiguity or mixing of requirement types
The document discusses the design and implementation process in software engineering. It covers topics like using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for object-oriented design, design patterns, and implementation issues. It then discusses the design process, including identifying system contexts and interactions, architectural design, identifying object classes, and creating design models like subsystem, sequence, and state diagrams. The example of designing a weather station system is used to illustrate these design concepts and activities.
The document provides an overview of software processes and models. It discusses the waterfall model, incremental development, and reuse-oriented processes. The waterfall model involves separate sequential phases while incremental development interleaves specification, development and validation. The Rational Unified Process (RUP) combines elements of different models and involves iterative phases of inception, elaboration, construction and transition. RUP aims to reduce risks and accommodate changes through incremental delivery and development.
The document summarizes key aspects of software processes as discussed in Chapter 2, including common process models like waterfall, incremental development, and reuse-oriented processes. It also describes common process activities like specification, design/implementation, validation, and evolution. A detailed explanation is provided of the Rational Unified Process (RUP), which incorporates elements of other models and defines phases like inception, elaboration, construction, and transition that may be iterated.
The document summarizes key aspects of software processes as discussed in Chapter 2, including common process models like waterfall, incremental development, and reuse-oriented processes. It also describes common process activities like specification, design/implementation, validation, and evolution. A detailed explanation is provided of the Rational Unified Process (RUP), which incorporates elements of other models and defines phases like inception, elaboration, construction, and transition that may be iterated.
The document describes different software development processes and models. It discusses the waterfall model, incremental development, reuse-oriented development, and the spiral model. The waterfall model involves sequential phases from requirements to maintenance. Incremental development interleaves specification, development and validation. Reuse focuses on assembling systems from existing components. The spiral model is iterative with risk assessment at each loop. The Rational Unified Process combines elements of these models into phases of inception, elaboration, construction and transition.
The document discusses software processes and process models. It covers key topics like the waterfall model, incremental development, and reuse-oriented processes. The main activities involved in any software process are specification, design and implementation, validation, and evolution. Specification defines what the system should do, design implements the system structure, validation checks it meets requirements, and evolution handles changing needs. Process models organize these activities differently, like sequentially in waterfall or interleaved in incremental development.
The document discusses software processes and provides an overview of key concepts:
1) It describes different software process models including waterfall, incremental development, and reuse-oriented processes.
2) It covers important process activities like requirements specification, design/implementation, validation, and evolution.
3) It discusses approaches for coping with changing requirements like prototyping and incremental delivery.
The Rational Unified Process (RUP) is presented as a modern generic software process that incorporates elements of other process models.
The software process involves specification, design and implementation, validation, and evolution activities. It can be modeled using plan-driven approaches like the waterfall model or agile approaches. The waterfall model involves separate sequential phases while incremental development interleaves activities. Reuse-oriented processes focus on assembling systems from existing components. Real processes combine elements of different models. Specification defines system requirements through requirements engineering. Design translates requirements into a software structure and implementation creates an executable program. Validation verifies the system meets requirements through testing. Evolution maintains and changes the system in response to changing needs.
This document discusses different software processes and activities. It covers incremental development, which delivers software in increments and allows for early customer feedback. Reuse-oriented engineering focuses on integrating existing components. Key process activities include specification, design/implementation, validation, and evolution. Specification involves requirements analysis. Design translates requirements into a structure, while implementation creates an executable program. Validation verifies the system meets requirements through testing. Evolution allows software to change with changing needs.
The document discusses software processes and managing change. It describes prototyping as a way to clarify requirements and explore design options before significant rework is required. Incremental development and delivery are presented as ways to accommodate change at low cost by developing and deploying the system in prioritized increments. The Rational Unified Process is introduced as an iterative process with phases for inception, elaboration, construction, and transition, with activities like requirements management and component-based design carried out within each phase through multiple iterations.
The document discusses software process models. It describes the waterfall model, which involves requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance phases completed sequentially. However, the waterfall model is inflexible and doesn't adapt well to changing requirements. The document then introduces incremental development as an alternative, delivering the system in prioritized increments to allow for adapting to changes more easily.
Process in Software Engineering/4'ps in Software EngineerinMuhammadSufianJani
The document discusses software processes and provides an overview of various process models. It describes the Rational Unified Process (RUP) which includes phases of inception, elaboration, construction, and transition. Within each phase, activities like requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, and testing are performed iteratively. The RUP advocates for iterative development, managing requirements, using component-based architectures, visually modeling software, verifying quality, and controlling changes. It provides a flexible approach to software development through incremental iterations within and across phases.
ISE_Lecture Week 2-SW Process Models.pptHumzaWaris1
The document discusses various software development processes. It begins by defining a software process as a framework that describes the activities performed at each stage of a project. It then categorizes common activities as software specification, development, validation, and evolution. The document goes on to describe plan-driven and agile processes, and notes that most practical processes include elements of both. It provides details on specific process models like waterfall, V-model, prototyping, incremental development, component-based development, and spiral model.
The document discusses software processes for coping with change, including prototyping and incremental delivery approaches. Prototyping can help reduce costs by anticipating changes early. Incremental delivery breaks a system into prioritized parts for iterative development and delivery of value. Boehm's spiral model also takes a risk-driven iterative approach representing the software process as a spiral of objectives, risks, development, and planning loops. While influential, the spiral model is rarely used directly in practice.
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#Topics covered (Software process models
#Process activities
#Coping with change
#Process improvement)
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(The software process)
# A structured set of activities required to develop a software system.
# Many different software processes but all involve:
Specification – defining what the system should do;
Design and implementation – defining the organization of the system and implementing the system;
Validation – checking that it does what the customer wants;
Evolution – changing the system in response to changing customer needs.
# A software process model is an abstract representation of a process. It presents a description of a process from some particular perspective.
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This document discusses software processes and activities. It covers topics like software process models, process activities, and process improvement. Some key points include: a software process involves specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution; process models include waterfall, incremental development, and configuration/integration; activities involve specification, design/implementation, validation and evolution; and testing is a major validation activity involving component, system and customer testing.
This document provides an overview of software processes and models. It discusses topics like specification, design, implementation, validation, evolution, and process improvement. Common process models like waterfall, incremental development, and integration/configuration are described. The document also covers process activities, coping with change through techniques like prototyping and incremental delivery, and process improvement through models like the spiral model.
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Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th Edition Ch2
1. Chapter 2 – Software Processes
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Ian Sommerville,
Software Engineering, 9th
Edition
Pearson Education, Addison-Wesley
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http://www.cse.unr.edu/~dascalus/se2012.html
2. Topics covered
Basic software process models (1, 2, 3)
Process activities
Coping with change & additional software process
models (4, 5)
The Rational Unified Process (6)
An example of a modern software process.
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3. The software process
Software process: a structured set of activities required
to develop a software system.
Many different software processes but all involve:
Specification – defining what the system should do;
Design and implementation – defining the organization of the
system and implementing the system;
Validation – checking that it does what the customer wants;
Evolution – changing the system in response to changing
customer needs.
A software process model is an abstract representation
of a process. It presents a description of a process from
some particular perspective.
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4. Software process descriptions
When we describe and discuss processes, we usually
talk about the activities in these processes such as
specifying a data model, designing a user interface, etc.
and the ordering of these activities.
Process descriptions may also include:
Products, which are the outcomes of a process activity;
Roles, which reflect the responsibilities of the people involved in
the process;
Pre- and post-conditions, which are statements that are true
before and after a process activity has been enacted or a
product produced.
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5. Plan-driven and agile processes
Plan-driven processes are processes where all of the
process activities are planned in advance and progress
is measured against this plan.
In agile processes, planning is incremental and it is
easier to change the process to reflect changing
customer requirements.
In practice, most practical processes include elements of
both plan-driven and agile approaches.
There are no right or wrong software processes.
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6. Software process models
1 The waterfall model
Plan-driven model. Separate and distinct phases of specification
and development.
2 Incremental (exploratory) development
Specification, development and validation are interleaved. May
be plan-driven or agile.
3 Reuse-oriented software engineering
The system is assembled from existing components. May be
plan-driven or agile.
In practice, most large systems are developed using a
process that incorporates elements from these models.
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8. Waterfall model phases
There are separate identified phases in the waterfall
model:
Requirements analysis and definition
System and software design
Implementation and unit testing
Integration and system testing
Operation and maintenance
The main drawback of the waterfall model is the difficulty
of accommodating change after the process is
underway. In principle, a phase has to be complete
before moving onto the next phase.
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9. Waterfall model problems
Inflexible partitioning of the project into distinct stages
makes it difficult to respond to changing customer
requirements.
Therefore, this model is only appropriate when the requirements
are well-understood and changes will be fairly limited during the
design process.
Few business systems have stable requirements.
The waterfall model is mostly used for large systems
engineering projects where a system is developed at
several sites.
In those circumstances, the plan-driven nature of the waterfall
model helps coordinate the work.
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11. Incremental development benefits
The cost of accommodating changing customer
requirements is reduced.
The amount of analysis and documentation that has to be
redone is much less than is required with the waterfall model.
It is easier to get customer feedback on the development
work that has been done.
Customers can comment on demonstrations of the software and
see how much has been implemented.
More rapid delivery and deployment of useful software to
the customer is possible.
Customers are able to use and gain value from the software
earlier than is possible with a waterfall process.
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12. Incremental development problems
The process is not visible.
Managers need regular deliverables to measure progress. If
systems are developed quickly, it is not cost-effective to produce
documents that reflect every version of the system.
System structure tends to degrade as new increments
are added.
Unless time and money is spent on refactoring to improve the
software, regular change tends to corrupt its structure.
Incorporating further software changes becomes increasingly
difficult and costly.
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13. 3 Reuse-oriented software engineering
Based on systematic reuse where systems are
integrated from existing components or COTS
(Commercial-off-the-shelf) systems.
Process stages
Component analysis;
Requirements modification;
System design with reuse;
Development and integration.
Reuse is now the standard approach for building many
types of business system
Reuse covered in more depth in Chapter 16.
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15. Process activities
Real software processes are inter-leaved sequences of
technical, collaborative and managerial activities with the
overall goal of specifying, designing, implementing and
testing a software system.
The four basic process activities of specification,
development, validation and evolution are organized
differently in different development processes. In the
waterfall model, they are organized in sequence,
whereas in incremental development they are inter-
leaved.
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16. Software specification
The process of establishing what services are required
and the constraints on the system’s operation and
development.
Requirements engineering process
Feasibility study
• Is it technically and financially feasible to build the system?
Requirements elicitation and analysis
• What do the system stakeholders require or expect from the system?
Requirements specification
• Defining the requirements in detail
Requirements validation
• Checking the validity of the requirements
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18. Software design and implementation
The process of converting the system specification into
an executable system. Design is about how to build a
system.
Software design
Design a software structure that realises the specification;
Implementation
Translate this structure into an executable program;
The activities of design and implementation are closely
related and may be inter-leaved.
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19. A general model of the design process
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20. Design activities
Architectural design, where you identify the overall
structure of the system, the principal components
(sometimes called sub-systems or modules), their
relationships and how they are distributed.
Interface design, where you define the interfaces
between system components.
Component design, where you take each system
component and design how it will operate.
Database design, where you design the system data
structures and how these are to be represented in a
database.
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21. Software validation
Verification and validation (V & V) is intended to show
that a system conforms to its specification and meets the
requirements of the system customer.
Involves checking and review processes and system
testing.
System testing involves executing the system with test
cases that are derived from the specification of the real
data to be processed by the system.
Testing is the most commonly used V & V activity.
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23. Testing stages
Development or component testing
Individual components are tested independently;
Components may be functions or objects or coherent groupings
of these entities.
System testing
Testing of the system as a whole. Testing of emergent
properties is particularly important.
Acceptance testing
Testing with customer data to check that the system meets the
customer’s needs.
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24. Testing phases in a plan-driven software
process
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25. Software evolution
Software is inherently flexible and can change.
As requirements change through changing business
circumstances, the software that supports the business
must also evolve and change.
Although there has been a demarcation between
development and evolution (maintenance) this is
increasingly irrelevant as fewer and fewer systems are
completely new.
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27. Coping with change
Change is inevitable in all large software projects.
Business changes lead to new and changed system
requirements
New technologies open up new possibilities for improving
implementations
Changing platforms require application changes
Change leads to rework so the costs of change include
both rework (e.g. re-analysing requirements) as well as
the costs of implementing new functionality
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28. Reducing the costs of rework
Change avoidance, where the software process includes
activities that can anticipate possible changes before
significant rework is required.
For example, a prototype system may be developed to show
some key features of the system to customers.
Change tolerance, where the process is designed so that
changes can be accommodated at relatively low cost.
This normally involves some form of incremental development.
Proposed changes may be implemented in increments that have
not yet been developed. If this is impossible, then only a single
increment (a small part of the system) may have be altered to
incorporate the change.
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29. Software prototyping
A prototype is an initial version of a system used to
demonstrate concepts and try out design options.
A prototype can be used in:
The requirements engineering process to help with requirements
elicitation and validation;
In design processes to explore options and develop a UI design;
In the testing process to run back-to-back tests.
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30. Benefits of prototyping
Improved system usability.
A closer match to users’ real needs.
Improved design quality.
Improved maintainability.
Reduced development effort.
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31. The process of prototype development
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32. Prototype development
May be based on rapid prototyping languages or tools
May involve leaving out functionality
Prototype should focus on areas of the product that are not well-
understood;
Error checking and recovery may not be included in the
prototype;
Focus on functional rather than non-functional requirements
such as reliability and security
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33. Throw-away prototypes
Prototypes should be discarded after development as
they are not a good basis for a production system:
It may be impossible to tune the system to meet non-functional
requirements;
Prototypes are normally undocumented;
The prototype structure is usually degraded through rapid
change;
The prototype probably will not meet normal organisational
quality standards.
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34. 4 Incremental delivery
Rather than deliver the system as a single delivery, the
development and delivery is broken down into
increments with each increment delivering part of the
required functionality.
User requirements are prioritised and the highest priority
requirements are included in early increments.
Once the development of an increment is started, the
requirements are frozen though requirements for later
increments can continue to evolve.
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35. Incremental delivery
Incremental development
Develop the system in increments and evaluate each increment
before proceeding to the development of the next increment;
Normal approach used in agile methods;
Evaluation done by user/customer proxy.
Incremental delivery
Deploy an increment for use by end-users;
More realistic evaluation about practical use of software;
Difficult to implement for replacement systems as increments
have less functionality than the system being replaced.
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37. Incremental delivery advantages
Customer value can be delivered with each increment so
system functionality is available earlier.
Early increments act as a prototype to help elicit
requirements for later increments.
Lower risk of overall project failure.
The highest priority system services tend to receive the
most testing.
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38. Incremental delivery problems
Most systems require a set of basic facilities that are
used by different parts of the system.
As requirements are not defined in detail until an increment is to
be implemented, it can be hard to identify common facilities that
are needed by all increments.
The essence of iterative processes is that the
specification is developed in conjunction with the
software.
However, this conflicts with the procurement model of many
organizations, where the complete system specification is part of
the system development contract.
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39. 5 Boehm’s spiral model
Process is represented as a spiral rather than as a
sequence of activities with backtracking.
Each loop in the spiral represents a phase in the
process.
No fixed phases such as specification or design - loops
in the spiral are chosen depending on what is required.
Risks are explicitly assessed and resolved throughout
the process.
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41. Spiral model sectors
Objective setting
Specific objectives for the phase are identified.
Risk assessment and reduction
Risks are assessed and activities put in place to reduce the key
risks.
Development and validation
A development model for the system is chosen which can be
any of the generic models.
Planning
The project is reviewed and the next phase of the spiral is
planned.
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42. Spiral model usage
Spiral model has been very influential in helping people
think about iteration in software processes and
introducing the risk-driven approach to development.
In practice, however, the model is rarely used as
published for practical software development.
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43. 6 The Rational Unified Process
A modern generic process derived from the work on the
UML and associated process.
Brings together aspects of the generic process models
discussed previously.
Normally described from 3 perspectives
A dynamic perspective that shows phases over time;
A static perspective that shows process activities;
A practice perspective that suggests good practice.
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44. Phases in the Rational Unified Process
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45. RUP phases
Inception
Establish the business case for the system.
Elaboration
Develop an understanding of the problem domain and the
system architecture.
Construction
System design, programming and testing.
Transition
Deploy the system in its operating environment.
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46. RUP iteration
In-phase iteration
Each phase is iterative with results developed incrementally.
Cross-phase iteration
As shown by the loop in the RUP model, the whole set of phases
may be enacted incrementally.
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47. Static workflows in the Rational Unified Process
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48. Static workflows in the Rational Unified Process
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49. RUP good practice
Develop software iteratively
Plan increments based on customer priorities and deliver highest
priority increments first.
Manage requirements
Explicitly document customer requirements and keep track of
changes to these requirements.
Use component-based architectures
Organize the system architecture as a set of reusable
components.
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50. RUP good practice
Visually model software
Use graphical UML models to present static and dynamic views
of the software.
Verify software quality
Ensure that the software meet’s organizational quality standards.
Control changes to software
Manage software changes using a change management system
and configuration management tools.
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51. Key points
Software processes are the activities involved in
producing a software system. Software process models
are abstract representations of these processes.
General process models describe the organization of
software processes. Examples of these general models
include the ‘waterfall’ model, incremental (exploratory)
development, reuse-oriented development, incremental
delivery, Boehm’s spiral model, and RUP.
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52. Key points
Requirements engineering is the process of developing a
software specification.
Design and implementation processes are concerned
with transforming a requirements specification into an
executable software system.
Software validation is the process of checking that the
system conforms to its specification and that it meets the
real needs of the users of the system.
Software evolution takes place when you change
existing software systems to meet new requirements.
The software must evolve to remain useful.
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53. Key points
Processes should include activities to cope with change.
This may involve a prototyping phase that helps avoid
poor decisions on requirements and design.
Processes may be structured for iterative development
and delivery so that changes may be made without
disrupting the system as a whole.
The Rational Unified Process is a modern generic
process model that is organized into phases (inception,
elaboration, construction and transition) but separates
activities (requirements, analysis and design, etc.) from
these phases.
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