The document discusses the origins and drivers of software engineering as a discipline. It arose in response to frequent software project failures in the late 1960s, termed the "software crisis". Key points:
- Software engineering aims to apply systematic and quantifiable principles to software development and maintenance to improve quality, productivity and job satisfaction.
- It draws on computer science, management science, economics and other fields. Processes and models help manage complex software projects.
- Early process models included waterfall and prototyping. Later agile models like spiral emphasize iterative development and risk management over rigid phases.
The document contains slides from a lecture on software engineering. It discusses definitions of software and software engineering, different types of software applications, characteristics of web applications, and general principles of software engineering practice. The slides are copyrighted and intended for educational use as supplementary material for a textbook on software engineering.
The document discusses key concepts in software engineering. It defines software engineering as applying systematic and technical approaches to develop reliable and efficient computer software. It describes various software development models including waterfall, prototyping, RAD, spiral and evolutionary models. It also discusses software engineering layers, characteristics, applications, and process models. Finally, it covers concepts like fourth generation techniques, software project management, estimation techniques, and risk management.
The document discusses the software design process. It begins by explaining that software design is an iterative process that translates requirements into a blueprint for constructing the software. It then describes the main steps and outputs of the design process, which include transforming specifications into design models, reviewing designs for quality, and producing a design document. The document also covers key concepts in software design like abstraction, architecture, patterns, modularity, and information hiding.
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This document discusses different process models used in software development. It describes the key phases and characteristics of several common process models including waterfall, prototyping, V-model, incremental, iterative, spiral and agile development models. The waterfall model involves sequential phases from requirements to maintenance without iteration. Prototyping allows for user feedback earlier. The V-model adds verification and validation phases. Incremental and iterative models divide the work into smaller chunks to allow for iteration and user feedback throughout development.
This document summarizes key concepts from the first chapter of Ian Sommerville's Software Engineering textbook. It introduces software engineering as an engineering discipline concerned with all aspects of software production. It discusses the objectives of software engineering, topics covered like frequently asked questions and professional responsibility. It also summarizes concepts like the software development process, methods, costs and challenges in the field.
The document discusses various aspects of software project management including project planning activities like estimation, scheduling, staffing, and risk handling. It describes different project organization structures like functional organization and project organization. It also discusses different team structures like chief programmer teams, democratic teams, and mixed teams. The document emphasizes the importance of careful project planning and producing a software project management plan document. It also discusses considerations for staffing a project team and attributes of a good software engineer.
The document contains slides from a lecture on software engineering. It discusses definitions of software and software engineering, different types of software applications, characteristics of web applications, and general principles of software engineering practice. The slides are copyrighted and intended for educational use as supplementary material for a textbook on software engineering.
The document discusses key concepts in software engineering. It defines software engineering as applying systematic and technical approaches to develop reliable and efficient computer software. It describes various software development models including waterfall, prototyping, RAD, spiral and evolutionary models. It also discusses software engineering layers, characteristics, applications, and process models. Finally, it covers concepts like fourth generation techniques, software project management, estimation techniques, and risk management.
The document discusses the software design process. It begins by explaining that software design is an iterative process that translates requirements into a blueprint for constructing the software. It then describes the main steps and outputs of the design process, which include transforming specifications into design models, reviewing designs for quality, and producing a design document. The document also covers key concepts in software design like abstraction, architecture, patterns, modularity, and information hiding.
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roger s. pressman
This document discusses different process models used in software development. It describes the key phases and characteristics of several common process models including waterfall, prototyping, V-model, incremental, iterative, spiral and agile development models. The waterfall model involves sequential phases from requirements to maintenance without iteration. Prototyping allows for user feedback earlier. The V-model adds verification and validation phases. Incremental and iterative models divide the work into smaller chunks to allow for iteration and user feedback throughout development.
This document summarizes key concepts from the first chapter of Ian Sommerville's Software Engineering textbook. It introduces software engineering as an engineering discipline concerned with all aspects of software production. It discusses the objectives of software engineering, topics covered like frequently asked questions and professional responsibility. It also summarizes concepts like the software development process, methods, costs and challenges in the field.
The document discusses various aspects of software project management including project planning activities like estimation, scheduling, staffing, and risk handling. It describes different project organization structures like functional organization and project organization. It also discusses different team structures like chief programmer teams, democratic teams, and mixed teams. The document emphasizes the importance of careful project planning and producing a software project management plan document. It also discusses considerations for staffing a project team and attributes of a good software engineer.
The document discusses the iterative software development process (SDP). It describes the main stages as analysis, design, implementation, testing, documentation, evaluation, and maintenance. At each stage, specific tasks are undertaken, such as creating requirements in analysis, designing algorithms and diagrams in design, coding in implementation, testing in testing, creating user guides in documentation, and fixing bugs in maintenance. People involved include clients, analysts, project managers, and programmers. Documents created include specifications, algorithms, test reports, guides, and evaluation/maintenance reports.
This document discusses agile software development methods. It outlines the agile manifesto which values individuals and interactions over processes, working software over documentation, and customer collaboration over contract negotiation. Some key agile principles include customer satisfaction, welcome changing requirements, and frequent delivery of working software. Common agile methods like extreme programming and scrum are also summarized. Advantages include improved customer satisfaction and responsiveness to change, while disadvantages include potential lack of documentation.
Software Engineering (Introduction to Software Engineering)ShudipPal
Software engineering is concerned with all aspects of software production. It aims to develop software using systematic and disciplined approaches to reduce errors and costs. Some key challenges in software development are its high cost, difficulty delivering on time, and producing low quality software. Software engineering methods strive to address these challenges and produce software with attributes like maintainability, dependability, efficiency, usability and acceptability.
The document discusses project planning in software engineering. It defines project planning and its importance. It describes the project manager's responsibilities which include project planning, reporting, risk management, and people management. It discusses challenges in software project planning. The RUP process for project planning is then outlined which involves creating artifacts like the business case and software development plan. Risk management is also a key part of project planning.
Testing is the process of identifying bugs and ensuring software meets requirements. It involves executing programs under different conditions to check specification, functionality, and performance. The objectives of testing are to uncover errors, demonstrate requirements are met, and validate quality with minimal cost. Testing follows a life cycle including planning, design, execution, and reporting. Different methodologies like black box and white box testing are used at various levels from unit to system. The overall goal is to perform effective testing to deliver high quality software.
Risk management involves identifying potential problems, assessing their likelihood and impacts, and developing strategies to address them. There are two main risk strategies - reactive, which addresses risks after issues arise, and proactive, which plans ahead. Key steps in proactive risk management include identifying risks through checklists, estimating their probability and impacts, developing mitigation plans, monitoring risks and mitigation effectiveness, and adjusting plans as needed. Common risk categories include project risks, technical risks, and business risks.
The document provides an introduction to software engineering and discusses key concepts such as:
1) Software is defined as a set of instructions that provide desired features, functions, and performance when executed and includes programs, data, and documentation.
2) Software engineering applies scientific knowledge and engineering principles to the development of reliable and efficient software within time and budget constraints.
3) The software development life cycle (SDLC) involves analysis, design, implementation, and documentation phases to systematically develop high quality software that meets requirements.
The document discusses different software engineering process models including:
1. The waterfall model which is a linear sequential model where each phase must be completed before moving to the next.
2. Prototyping models which allow requirements to be refined through building prototypes.
3. RAD (Rapid Application Development) which emphasizes short development cycles through reuse and code generation.
4. Incremental models which deliver functionality in increments with early increments focusing on high priority requirements.
5. The spiral model which has multiple iterations of planning, risk analysis, engineering and evaluation phases.
The data design action translates data objects into data structures at the software component level.
Data Design is the first and most important design activity. Here the main issue is to select the appropriate data structure i.e. the data design focuses on the definition of data structures.
Data design is a process of gradual refinement, from the coarse "What data does your application require?" to the precise data structures and processes that provide it. With a good data design, your application's data access is fast, easily maintained, and can gracefully accept future data enhancements.
Minor project Report for "Quiz Application"Harsh Verma
This document summarizes a project report for a quiz application submitted to Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal. The report describes a web-based quiz application developed by students Bhumika Kanojia, Durgesh Mishra, and Harsh Verma to fulfill their Bachelor of Engineering degree requirements. The application allows users to play various quizzes on technical, general knowledge, and other topics. Users can view answers, ask questions, and submit their own questions and answers after admin approval. The report covers requirements analysis, design, implementation, and testing of the quiz application.
Software maintenance typically requires 40-60% of the total lifecycle effort for a software product, with some cases requiring as much as 90%. A widely used rule of thumb is that maintenance activities are distributed as 60% for enhancements, 20% for adaptations, and 20% for corrections. Studies show the typical level of effort devoted to software maintenance is around 50% of the total lifecycle effort. Boehm suggests measuring maintenance effort using an activity ratio that considers the number of instructions added or modified over the total instructions. The effort required can then be estimated using programmer months based on the activity ratio and an effort adjustment factor. Emphasis on reliability during development can reduce future maintenance effort.
The document discusses staffing level estimation over the course of a software development project. It describes how the number of personnel needed varies at different stages: a small group is needed for planning and analysis, a larger group for architectural design, and the largest number for implementation and system testing. It also references models like the Rayleigh curve and Putnam's interpretation that estimate personnel levels over time. Tables show estimates for the distribution of effort, schedule, and personnel across activities for different project sizes. The key idea is that staffing requirements fluctuate throughout the software life cycle, with peaks during implementation and testing phases.
This document discusses common myths held by software managers, developers, and customers. It describes myths such as believing formal standards and procedures are sufficient, thinking new hardware means high quality development, adding people to late projects will help catch up, and outsourcing means relaxing oversight. Realities discussed include standards not being used effectively, tools being more important than hardware, adding people making projects later, and needing management and control of outsourced projects. Developer myths like thinking the job is done once code runs and quality can't be assessed until code runs are addressed. The document emphasizes the importance of requirements, documentation, quality processes, and addressing change impacts.
The document discusses software requirements and requirements engineering. It introduces concepts like user requirements, system requirements, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements. It explains how requirements can be organized in a requirements document and the different types of stakeholders who read requirements. The document also discusses challenges in writing requirements precisely and provides examples of requirements specification for a library system called LIBSYS.
This Presentation shows That what is Agile methodology, its principles and key points and how it is different from other software development life cycle.
The document discusses compilers and their role in translating high-level programming languages into machine-readable code. It notes that compilers perform several key functions: lexical analysis, syntax analysis, generation of an intermediate representation, optimization of the intermediate code, and finally generation of assembly or machine code. The compiler allows programmers to write code in a high-level language that is easier for humans while still producing efficient low-level code that computers can execute.
The document discusses the history and current state of mobile application development. It begins with definitions and a brief history starting from the early 1990s. It then covers major platforms and operating systems that have emerged over time like Palm OS, Java ME, Symbian, Android, iOS, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone. Current development approaches including native frameworks and non-native alternatives like PhoneGap and Titanium are also summarized. The document concludes with a discussion of emerging areas like wearable technology and devices like Google Glass and Samsung Galaxy Gear.
The document defines the software development life cycle (SDLC) and its phases. It discusses several SDLC models including waterfall, prototype, iterative enhancement, and spiral. The waterfall model follows sequential phases from requirements to maintenance with no overlap. The prototype model involves building prototypes for user feedback. The iterative enhancement model develops software incrementally. The spiral model is divided into risk analysis, engineering, construction, and evaluation cycles. The document also covers software requirements, elicitation through interviews and use cases, analysis through data, behavioral and functional modeling, and documentation in a software requirements specification.
The document describes an online railway reservation system project submitted by students. It discusses software engineering principles and methods used to develop the system. It includes UML diagrams like use case, class, sequence, and activity diagrams that were created as part of the analysis and design of the system. It also describes testing done on the project in the form of alpha testing.
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This document provides an introduction to software engineering. It discusses how software engineering is concerned with the development and maintenance of software through professional practices and methods. It notes that software costs, especially maintenance costs, are a large part of overall system costs. The document then discusses different types of software products and specifications, as well as frequently asked questions about software engineering. It emphasizes that software engineering principles should be applied to all types of software development.
The document discusses the iterative software development process (SDP). It describes the main stages as analysis, design, implementation, testing, documentation, evaluation, and maintenance. At each stage, specific tasks are undertaken, such as creating requirements in analysis, designing algorithms and diagrams in design, coding in implementation, testing in testing, creating user guides in documentation, and fixing bugs in maintenance. People involved include clients, analysts, project managers, and programmers. Documents created include specifications, algorithms, test reports, guides, and evaluation/maintenance reports.
This document discusses agile software development methods. It outlines the agile manifesto which values individuals and interactions over processes, working software over documentation, and customer collaboration over contract negotiation. Some key agile principles include customer satisfaction, welcome changing requirements, and frequent delivery of working software. Common agile methods like extreme programming and scrum are also summarized. Advantages include improved customer satisfaction and responsiveness to change, while disadvantages include potential lack of documentation.
Software Engineering (Introduction to Software Engineering)ShudipPal
Software engineering is concerned with all aspects of software production. It aims to develop software using systematic and disciplined approaches to reduce errors and costs. Some key challenges in software development are its high cost, difficulty delivering on time, and producing low quality software. Software engineering methods strive to address these challenges and produce software with attributes like maintainability, dependability, efficiency, usability and acceptability.
The document discusses project planning in software engineering. It defines project planning and its importance. It describes the project manager's responsibilities which include project planning, reporting, risk management, and people management. It discusses challenges in software project planning. The RUP process for project planning is then outlined which involves creating artifacts like the business case and software development plan. Risk management is also a key part of project planning.
Testing is the process of identifying bugs and ensuring software meets requirements. It involves executing programs under different conditions to check specification, functionality, and performance. The objectives of testing are to uncover errors, demonstrate requirements are met, and validate quality with minimal cost. Testing follows a life cycle including planning, design, execution, and reporting. Different methodologies like black box and white box testing are used at various levels from unit to system. The overall goal is to perform effective testing to deliver high quality software.
Risk management involves identifying potential problems, assessing their likelihood and impacts, and developing strategies to address them. There are two main risk strategies - reactive, which addresses risks after issues arise, and proactive, which plans ahead. Key steps in proactive risk management include identifying risks through checklists, estimating their probability and impacts, developing mitigation plans, monitoring risks and mitigation effectiveness, and adjusting plans as needed. Common risk categories include project risks, technical risks, and business risks.
The document provides an introduction to software engineering and discusses key concepts such as:
1) Software is defined as a set of instructions that provide desired features, functions, and performance when executed and includes programs, data, and documentation.
2) Software engineering applies scientific knowledge and engineering principles to the development of reliable and efficient software within time and budget constraints.
3) The software development life cycle (SDLC) involves analysis, design, implementation, and documentation phases to systematically develop high quality software that meets requirements.
The document discusses different software engineering process models including:
1. The waterfall model which is a linear sequential model where each phase must be completed before moving to the next.
2. Prototyping models which allow requirements to be refined through building prototypes.
3. RAD (Rapid Application Development) which emphasizes short development cycles through reuse and code generation.
4. Incremental models which deliver functionality in increments with early increments focusing on high priority requirements.
5. The spiral model which has multiple iterations of planning, risk analysis, engineering and evaluation phases.
The data design action translates data objects into data structures at the software component level.
Data Design is the first and most important design activity. Here the main issue is to select the appropriate data structure i.e. the data design focuses on the definition of data structures.
Data design is a process of gradual refinement, from the coarse "What data does your application require?" to the precise data structures and processes that provide it. With a good data design, your application's data access is fast, easily maintained, and can gracefully accept future data enhancements.
Minor project Report for "Quiz Application"Harsh Verma
This document summarizes a project report for a quiz application submitted to Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal. The report describes a web-based quiz application developed by students Bhumika Kanojia, Durgesh Mishra, and Harsh Verma to fulfill their Bachelor of Engineering degree requirements. The application allows users to play various quizzes on technical, general knowledge, and other topics. Users can view answers, ask questions, and submit their own questions and answers after admin approval. The report covers requirements analysis, design, implementation, and testing of the quiz application.
Software maintenance typically requires 40-60% of the total lifecycle effort for a software product, with some cases requiring as much as 90%. A widely used rule of thumb is that maintenance activities are distributed as 60% for enhancements, 20% for adaptations, and 20% for corrections. Studies show the typical level of effort devoted to software maintenance is around 50% of the total lifecycle effort. Boehm suggests measuring maintenance effort using an activity ratio that considers the number of instructions added or modified over the total instructions. The effort required can then be estimated using programmer months based on the activity ratio and an effort adjustment factor. Emphasis on reliability during development can reduce future maintenance effort.
The document discusses staffing level estimation over the course of a software development project. It describes how the number of personnel needed varies at different stages: a small group is needed for planning and analysis, a larger group for architectural design, and the largest number for implementation and system testing. It also references models like the Rayleigh curve and Putnam's interpretation that estimate personnel levels over time. Tables show estimates for the distribution of effort, schedule, and personnel across activities for different project sizes. The key idea is that staffing requirements fluctuate throughout the software life cycle, with peaks during implementation and testing phases.
This document discusses common myths held by software managers, developers, and customers. It describes myths such as believing formal standards and procedures are sufficient, thinking new hardware means high quality development, adding people to late projects will help catch up, and outsourcing means relaxing oversight. Realities discussed include standards not being used effectively, tools being more important than hardware, adding people making projects later, and needing management and control of outsourced projects. Developer myths like thinking the job is done once code runs and quality can't be assessed until code runs are addressed. The document emphasizes the importance of requirements, documentation, quality processes, and addressing change impacts.
The document discusses software requirements and requirements engineering. It introduces concepts like user requirements, system requirements, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements. It explains how requirements can be organized in a requirements document and the different types of stakeholders who read requirements. The document also discusses challenges in writing requirements precisely and provides examples of requirements specification for a library system called LIBSYS.
This Presentation shows That what is Agile methodology, its principles and key points and how it is different from other software development life cycle.
The document discusses compilers and their role in translating high-level programming languages into machine-readable code. It notes that compilers perform several key functions: lexical analysis, syntax analysis, generation of an intermediate representation, optimization of the intermediate code, and finally generation of assembly or machine code. The compiler allows programmers to write code in a high-level language that is easier for humans while still producing efficient low-level code that computers can execute.
The document discusses the history and current state of mobile application development. It begins with definitions and a brief history starting from the early 1990s. It then covers major platforms and operating systems that have emerged over time like Palm OS, Java ME, Symbian, Android, iOS, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone. Current development approaches including native frameworks and non-native alternatives like PhoneGap and Titanium are also summarized. The document concludes with a discussion of emerging areas like wearable technology and devices like Google Glass and Samsung Galaxy Gear.
The document defines the software development life cycle (SDLC) and its phases. It discusses several SDLC models including waterfall, prototype, iterative enhancement, and spiral. The waterfall model follows sequential phases from requirements to maintenance with no overlap. The prototype model involves building prototypes for user feedback. The iterative enhancement model develops software incrementally. The spiral model is divided into risk analysis, engineering, construction, and evaluation cycles. The document also covers software requirements, elicitation through interviews and use cases, analysis through data, behavioral and functional modeling, and documentation in a software requirements specification.
The document describes an online railway reservation system project submitted by students. It discusses software engineering principles and methods used to develop the system. It includes UML diagrams like use case, class, sequence, and activity diagrams that were created as part of the analysis and design of the system. It also describes testing done on the project in the form of alpha testing.
Introduction to Software Engineering & Information TechnologyGaditek
For Introduction to Software Engineering & Information Technology this slide will guide you many things about Introduction to Software Engineering & Information Technology.
This document provides an introduction to software engineering. It discusses how software engineering is concerned with the development and maintenance of software through professional practices and methods. It notes that software costs, especially maintenance costs, are a large part of overall system costs. The document then discusses different types of software products and specifications, as well as frequently asked questions about software engineering. It emphasizes that software engineering principles should be applied to all types of software development.
An introduction to software engineering, based on the first chapter of "A (Partial) Introduction to Software Engineering
Practices and Methods" By Laurie Williams
Software System Engineering - Chapter 1Fadhil Ismail
This document introduces software engineering and discusses some key concepts. It defines software engineering as a systematic approach to software development, operation, and maintenance. The goal of software engineering is to produce high-quality software products through defined processes. However, software development faces challenges like inability to build programs fast enough to meet demand. The document also discusses common misconceptions around software, such as the belief that more programmers can catch up on a late project. It identifies poorly defined requirements as a major cause of failed software projects. Finally, it notes problems like lack of data collection and customer dissatisfaction that demonstrate the need for a systematic approach like software engineering.
Model-Driven Software Engineering in Practice - Chapter 1 - IntroductionMarco Brambilla
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This book discusses how approaches based on modeling can improve the daily practice of software professionals. This is known as Model-Driven Software Engineering (MDSE) or, simply, Model-Driven Engineering (MDE).
MDSE practices have proved to increase efficiency and effectiveness in software development. MDSE adoption in the software industry is foreseen to grow exponentially in the near future, e.g., due to the convergence of software development and business analysis.
This book is an agile and flexible tool to introduce you to the MDE and MDSE world, thus allowing you to quickly understand its basic principles and techniques and to choose the right set of MDE instruments for your needs so that you can start to benefit from MDE right away.
The first part discusses the foundations of MDSE in terms of basic concepts (i.e., models and transformations), driving principles, application scenarios and current standards, like the wellknown MDA initiative proposed by OMG (Object Management Group) as well as the practices on how to integrate MDE in existing development processes.
The second part deals with the technical aspects of MDSE, spanning from the basics on when and how to build a domain-specific modeling language, to the description of Model-to-Text and Model-to-Model transformations, and the tools that support the management of MDE projects.
The book covers introductory and technical topics, spanning definitions and orientation in the MD* world, metamodeling, domain specific languages, model transformations, reverse engineering, OMG's MDA, UML, OCL, ATL, QVT, MOF, Eclipse, EMF, GMF, TCS, xText.
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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.
The document discusses several key aspects of software and software engineering:
1. Software serves both as a product that transforms information and as a vehicle that delivers computing capabilities. It controls programs, enables communications, and helps build other software.
2. Software is more complex and difficult to develop than hardware but easier to modify and upgrade. Software costs are concentrated in design rather than production.
3. Software evolves and deteriorates over time unlike hardware, which wears out. Most software continues to be custom built despite a slow trend toward component-based construction. Maintaining and evolving legacy software poses challenges.
4. The document outlines several "laws" and myths regarding software evolution, management, customers, and practitioners
The importance of software since there is were the motivation for software engineering lies and then and introduction to software engineering mentioning the concept and stages of development and working in teams
This document introduces an Online Photo Processing System (OPPS) project presented to a professor. It summarizes the ordinary photo printing shop scenario where customers physically visit the shop and the proposed automated OPPS scenario where customers can upload and order prints online. It includes use case and deployment diagrams, comparisons of costs and time for each scenario, screenshots of the OPPS prototype, and details on the technologies used to develop the system.
Human resource management (HRM) involves managing an organization's employees. It includes activities like recruiting and selecting employees, orientation and training, performance evaluation, compensation and benefits, and labor relations. The goal of HRM is to attract, develop and maintain a talented workforce to help achieve organizational objectives. It has evolved over time due to factors like scientific management, the human relations movement, and changes in business needs and the economy.
The document covers the following topics related to human resource management (HRM):
- An introduction to management, organization, and the evolution and history of HRM
- The objective of HRM and important terminology
- A definition of HRM and how it represents the strategic deployment of human resources
- The history and evolution of HRM, from personnel management to its recognition as a profession
- The objectives of HRM from societal, organizational, functional, and personal perspectives
- An overview of the evolution of HR practices in Bangladesh and areas that can be improved
This document outlines key aspects of web engineering and web applications. It discusses the attributes of web applications including being network intensive, content driven, continuously evolving, immediate, requiring security, and emphasizing aesthetics. The document categorizes common types of web applications and identifies quality attributes such as usability, functionality, reliability, efficiency, maintainability, and extensibility. Finally, it notes that component-based development, security, and internet standards are important enabling technologies for web-based systems.
This document provides an introduction to software engineering. It discusses how software serves both as a product that delivers computing potential and as a vehicle for delivering other products. The document defines what constitutes software and discusses different types of software applications. It also covers software engineering practices, including communication, planning, analysis and design modeling, construction, and principles related to each practice. Overall, the document gives a high-level overview of key concepts in software engineering.
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.
The document discusses software engineering and provides definitions and explanations of key concepts. It defines software engineering as applying engineering principles and methods to the development of software. It notes that the goal of software engineering is to produce efficient and reliable software products. It also discusses what constitutes software, different types of software products, the importance of software, and characteristics of good software.
Unit 1 importance ofsoftengg_b.tech iii yearPreeti Mishra
Here are some key points from Unit 1:
- Software is computer programs, data structures, and documentation. Software engineering is the systematic development and maintenance of software.
- A software process provides a framework for development activities like communication, planning, modeling, construction and deployment. It establishes quality practices.
- Legacy software supports core functions but is outdated, poorly designed and documented. It is costly to replace but also to maintain.
- Common software myths include thinking requirements can change freely, documentation is unnecessary, or that quality is only important after coding. These undermine good practices.
- A process framework provides structure while methods and tools support specific technical tasks. Processes must balance control and flexibility for different projects.
Unit 1 introduction tosoftengg_mba tech ii yearPreeti Mishra
This document provides an introduction to software engineering. It defines software and discusses different categories of software products. It explains that software engineering is concerned with developing software using systematic and disciplined approaches. The document outlines important attributes of good software such as maintainability, dependability, efficiency and acceptability. It also discusses challenges with legacy software systems and reasons for evolving legacy systems. Finally, it covers key tasks for software project planning such as establishing scope, feasibility analysis, risk analysis, resource estimation, and developing a project schedule.
This document provides information about the "Software Engineering & Information System Design" course at East West University. It includes:
- Details about the course instructor Tanni Mittra and their background.
- Information about the course such as the class webpage, textbooks used, lecture times, and marking distribution.
- The objectives of the course which are to understand software engineering principles and acquire both technical and managerial knowledge.
- An overview of the topics that will be covered in the first chapter on introductions to software, software engineering, and ethics.
Introduction to software engineering
Software products
Why Software is Important?
Software costs
Features of Software?
Software Applications
Software—New Categories
Software Engineering
Importance of Software Engineering
Essential attributes / Characteristics of good software
Software Components
Software Process
Five Activities of a Generic Process framework
Relative Costs of Fixing Software Faults
Software Qualities
Software crisis
Software Development Stages/SDLC
What is Software Verification
Advantages of Software Verification
Advantages of Validation
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2. Software Crisis
It was in late 1960’s
•Many software projects failed.
• Many software projects late, over budget, providing
unreliable software that is expensive to maintain.
• Many software projects produced software which did not
satisfy the requirements of the customer.
•Complexities of software projects increased as hardware
capability increased.
•Larger software system is more difficult and expensive to
maintain.
•Demand of new software increased faster than ability to
generate new software.
All the above attributes of what was called a ‘Software
Crisis’. So the term ‘Software Engineering’ first introduced
at a conference in late 1960’s to discuss the software crisis.
3. Why software engineering?
Once the need for software engineering was identified and
software engineering recognized as a discipline--
• The late 1970’s saw the widespread evolution of
software engineering principles.
• The 1980’s saw the automation of software engineering
and growth of CASE (Computer Aided Software
Engineering).
• The 1990’s have seen increased emphasis on the
‘management’ aspects of projects and the use of
standard quality and ‘process’ models like ISO 9001 and
the Software Engineering Institute’s Software Capability
Maturity Model (CMM).
These models help organizations put their
software development and management
processes in place
4. What is software Engineering?
• In1969 Fritz Bauer defined software eng. as, ‘the establishment and
use of sound engineering principles in order to obtain, economically,
software that is reliable and works efficiently on real machines’.
• According to Boehm, software engineering involves, ‘the practical
application of scientific knowledge to the design and construction of
computer programs and the associated documentation required
developing, operating and maintaining them’
• IEEE, in its standard 610.12-1990, defines software engineering as:
(i) The application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to
the development, operation and maintenance of software; that is, the
application of engineering to software.
(ii) The study of approaches as in (i).
• By combining all the above definition we can define software
engineering as, ‘Software engineering is the technological and
managerial discipline concerned with systematic production and
maintenance of software products that are developed and modified on
time and within cost estimates.’
5. Goal of software engineering
The primary goals of software engineering
are:
• To improve the quality of the software products.
• To increase the productivity &
• To give job satisfaction to the software
engineers.
6. Foundation of Software engineering
Software engineering is a technological
discipline distinct from, but based on the
foundation of the following disciplines:
• Computer Science
• Management Science
• Economics
• System Engineering &
• Communication Skills
7. The relationship of software engineering with other disciplines
• Computer Science gives the scientific foundation to the software as
electrical engineering relies on physics.
• Management Science provides the foundation for software project
management. Since software engineering is labor intensive activity, it
requires both technical and managerial control.
• Economics provides the foundation for resource estimation and cost
control. Since, computing system must be developed and maintained
on time and within cost estimates; thus economics plays an important
role.
• System Engineering is the field concerned with studying complex
systems. Software is often a component of a much larger system. For
example, the software in a factory monitoring system or the flight
software on an airplane; is just the component of more complex
system. System engineering techniques can be applied to study of
such systems
• Good oral, written and interpersonal communication skills are
crucial for the software engineers, because software engineering
activities occur within an organizational context, and a high degree of
communication is required among customers, managers, software
engineers, hardware engineers and other technical workers.
8. Difference of s/w eng. with traditional engineering
• Software is intangible. It has no mass, no volume, no
color, no odor--- no physical properties. Source code is
merely a static image of computer program, and while
the effects produced by a program are often observable,
the program itself not.
• Software doesn’t degrade with time as hardware does.
Software failures are caused by design and
implementation error, not by degradation over time
• There is always an obscurity in the interface between
software modules. It is difficult to design a software
system so that all the control and interfaces among
modules are explicit, and so that the modules do not
interact to produce unexpected side effects when they
invoked one another.
9. …. difference
• In classical engineering disciplines, the engineer
is equipped with tools and the mathematical
maturity to specify the properties of the product
separately from those of design.
• The typical software engineering relies much
more on experience and judgment rather than
mathematical formula. While experience and
judgment are necessary, formal analysis are
also essential in the practice of engineering.
10. The role of software engineer
The evolution of software engineering field has defined the
role of the software engineer. A software engineer
should have the following qualities:
• Should be a good programmer, be well-versed in data
structures and algorithms, and be fluent in one or more
programming languages.
• Should be familiar with several design approaches, be
able to translate vague requirements and desires into
precise specifications and be able to converse with the
use of a system in terms of applications.
• Needs the ability to move among several levels of
abstraction at different stages of the project, from
specific application procedures and requirements, to
abstraction for software systems, to a specific design for
system and finally to the detailed coding level.
11. The characteristics of software engineer
• Should be able to build and use a model of the
application to guide choices of the many trade-
offs that he or she will face. The model is used
to answer questions about both the behavior of
the system and its performance.
• Needs communication skills and interpersonal
skills. He also needs the ability to schedule work
both of his own and that of others.
12. What is well engineered software?
If the software system does what the user wants,
and can be made to continue to do what the
user wants, it is well engineered.
• Any well engineered software system should have the
following attributes:
• Be easy to maintain
• Be reliable
• Be efficient
• Provides an appropriate user interface
The development of software must make trade-offs
between these attributes.
13. Distribution of software effort
The typical life-span for a typical software product is 1 to 3 years in
development and 5 to 15 years in use. The distribution of effort
between development and maintenance has been variously
reported depending on the type of software as 40/60, 30/70 and
10/90.
Maintenance:
• Corrective: Even with the best quality of software, it is likely that
customer will uncover defect in software. Corrective maintenance
changes the software to correct the defects.
• Adaptive: Over time, the original environment (CPU, OS, business
rules, external product character etc.) for which the software was
developed may change. Adaptive maintenance results in
modification to the software to accommodate the change to its
environment.
• Perfective: As the software is used, the customer / user will
recognize additional function that will provide benefit. Perfective
maintenance extends the software beyond its original functional
requirements.
14. The software product
The objective of software engineering is to produce software
products. Computer software is the product that software
engineers design and built. Software products are
software systems delivered to a customer with the
documentation which describes how to install and use the
system.
• Software products fall into two broad classes:
• Generic products: These are stand alone systems which
are produced by a software development
organizations/firms and sold on the open market to any
customer who is able to buy them.
• Customized products: These are systems which are
commissioned by a particular customer. The software is
developed specially for that customer by some developer.
15. …. Software products
• Until the 1980’s, the vast majority of software systems
which were sold that were customized and specially
designed systems which run on large computers. They
are expensive because all the development cost had to
be met by a single client.
• After the development of PCs, this situation has
completely changed. The PC market is totally dominated
by software products produces by companies such as
Microsoft. These account for the vast majority of
software sales. These are usually relatively cheap
because their development cost is spread across
hundred or thousands of different customers.
16. Difference between generic and customized software
• The generic software product specifications are
produced internally by the marketing department
of the product company. They reflect what they
think will sell. They are usually flexible and non-
prescriptive.
• For customized systems are often the basis for
the contract between customer and developer.
They are usually defined in detail and changes
have to be negotiated and carefully costed.
17. Software product attributes
The attributes of a software product are the
characteristics displayed by the product, once it
is installed and put in use. They are not the
services provided by the product.
Rather, they are concerned with the products
dynamic behavior and the use made of the
product.
Examples of these attributes are therefore,
efficiency, reliability, maintainability,
robustness, portability and so on.
The relative importance of these characteristics
obviously varies from system to system.
18. … product attributes
Product
characteristics
Description
Maintainability It should be possible to evolve software to meet the
changing needs of the customer.
Dependability Software dependability includes a range of characteristics
including reliability, security and safety. Dependable
software should not cause physical or economic damage in
the event of system failure.
Efficiency Software should not make wasteful use of system
resources such as memory and processor cycle
Usability Software should have an appropriate user interface and
documentation
19. ..product attributes
Optimizing the above attribute is difficult as some
are exclusive.
For example, providing a better user interface may
reduce system efficiency.
The relationship between cost and improvement in
each of the attribute is not linear one.
Small improvement in any of these attributes may
be devoted to optimizing particular attribute.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. Software Development Life cycle (SDLC)
• A life cycle model prescribes the different activities that
need to be carried out to develop a software product and
sequencing of these activities.
• Also referred to as Systems Development Life cycle.
• Every software product starts with a request for the
product by the customer.- Production conception.
• The software life cycle can be considered as the
business process for software development and
therefore is often referred to as a Software process.
(SLCM).
• Process models – More detailed and precise life cycle
activities.
25. • Different stages in a life cycle model: After Product
conception. The stages are: (Life cycle phase)
Feasibility study stage
Requirements analysis and specification.
Design
Coding
Testing and
Maintenance.
• A SDLC is a series of identifiable stages that a software
product undergoes during its lifetime.
• A SDLC is a descriptive and diagrammatic
representation of the software life cycle.
• A life cycle model maps the different activities performed
on a software product from its beginning to retirement
into a set of life cycle phases.
26. • Why use a life cycle model?
• Encourages development of software in a systematic
and disciplined manner
• S.D organisations have realized that adherence to a
suitable well-defined life cycle model helps to produce
good quality products and that too without time and cost
overruns.
• Why document a life cycle model?
• A documented life cycle model, besides preventing
misinterpretations that occur when the life cycle model is
no adequately documented, also helps to identify
inconsistencies, redundancies, and omissions in the
development process
27. 1. The classical waterfall model
Basic life cycle model- Theoretical way of
developing software.
28. Classical 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.
29. Classical 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.
30. 2. Structured Evolutionary Prototyping
Model
• Developers build a prototype during the
requirements phase.
• Prototype is evaluated by end users.
• Users give corrective feedback.
• Developers further refine the prototype.
• When the user is satisfied, the prototype
code is brought up to the standards
needed for a final product.
31. Structured Evolutionary Prototyping Steps
• A preliminary project plan is developed.
• An partial high-level paper model is created.
• The model is source for a partial requirements
specification.
• A prototype is built with basic and critical attributes
• The designer builds
– the database
– user interface
– algorithmic functions
• The designer demonstrates the prototype, the user
evaluates for problems and suggests improvements.
• This loop continues until the user is satisfied.
32. Structured Evolutionary Prototyping Strengths
• Customers can “see” the system requirements
as they are being gathered.
• Developers learn from customers.
• A more accurate end product.
• Unexpected requirements accommodated.
• Allows for flexible design and development.
• Steady, visible signs of progress produced.
• Interaction with the prototype stimulates
awareness of additional needed functionality.
33. Structured Evolutionary Prototyping Weaknesses
• Tendency to abandon structured program
development for “code-and-fix” development.
• Bad reputation for “quick-and-dirty” methods
• Overall maintainability may be overlooked.
• The customer may want the prototype delivered.
• Process may continue forever (scope creep).
34. When to use
Structured Evolutionary Prototyping
• Requirements are unstable or have to be
clarified.
• As the requirements clarification stage of a
waterfall model.
• Develop user interfaces.
• Short-lived demonstrations.
• New, original development.
• With the analysis and design portions of object-
oriented development.
35. 35
Code-and-Fix Life-Cycle Model
The easiest way to develop software
The most expensive way for maintenance
(i.e., maintenance nightmare)
• No design
• No specifications
36. 36
Code-and-Fix Life-Cycle Model (Cont.)
• The product is implemented without
requirements or specifications, or any
attempt at design.
• The developers simply throw code together
and rework it as many times as necessary to
satisfy the client.
• It is used in small project and is totally
unsatisfactory for products of any
reasonable size.
37. 3. Spiral Model
Since end-user requirements are hard to
obtain/define, it is natural to develop software
in an experimental way: e.g.
1. Build some software
2. See if it meets customer requirements
3. If no go to 1 else stop.
38. This loop approach gives rise to structured
iterative lifecycle models.
In 1988 Boehm developed the spiral model as
an iterative model which includes risk analysis
and risk management.
Key idea: on each iteration identify and solve
the sub-problems with the highest risk.
39. Spiral model
• Spiral with many loops.
• Each loop of the spiral is called the phase of a
software process.
• Over each loop, one or more features of the
product are elaborated and analysed and risks
at that point of time are identified and resolved
through prototyping. Based on this, the identified
features are implemented.
40. 4 Quadrants of spiral model
• 1st Quadrant:
– The objectives are investigated, elaborated and analysed.
– Risks are also identified.
– Alternative Solutions are proposed
• 2nd Quadrant:
• Alternative solutions are evaluated to select best.
• 3rd Quadrant:
• Developing and verifying the next level of the product
• 4th Quadrant:
• Reviewing the results of the stages traversed so far with the
customer.
• Planning the next iteration around the spiral.
:
41. Spiral Model
Determine objectiv es,
alternatives, & constr aints
Evaluate alter natives,
identify& resolv e r isks
Develop & ver ify
next level productPlan next phase
Requirements
Development
Integration
plan
plan
plan
Requirements
Design
validation
validation
Software
System
Product
Risk
analysis
Risk
analysis
Prototype1
Prototype2
Prototype3
Risk
analysis
Concept of
operation
Requirements
Design
Code
Unit Test
Integration &Test
Acceptance
Detailed
Design
P1
P2
Test
Project P1
Project P2
47. Spiral Model Strengths
• Provides early indication of insurmountable
risks, without much cost.
• Users see the system early because of rapid
prototyping tools.
• Critical high-risk functions are developed first.
• The design does not have to be perfect.
• Users can be closely tied to all lifecycle steps.
• Early and frequent feedback from users.
• Cumulative costs assessed frequently.
48. Spiral Model Weaknesses
• Time spent for evaluating risks too large for small or low-
risk projects.
• Time spent planning, resetting objectives, doing risk
analysis and prototyping may be excessive.
• The model is complex.
• Risk assessment expertise is required.
• Spiral may continue indefinitely.
• Developers must be reassigned during non-development
phase activities.
• May be hard to define objective, verifiable milestones
that indicate readiness to proceed through the next
iteration.
49. 4. Evolutionary Model
• Successive versions model.
• Incremental model.
• A simple working system is built, which
subsequently undergoes many functionality
improvements and additions until the desired
system is realized .
• Also sometimes referred to as design a little,
build a little, test a little, deploy a little model.
• That is once the requirements have been
specified, the design, build, test and deployment
activities are interleaved.
50. • The software requirements is first broken down into
several modules(functional units) that can be
incrementally constructed and delivered.
• The development team first develop the core modules of
the system.
• The Core modules are those that don’t need services
from the other modules.
• The initial product Skelton is refined into increasing
levels of capability by adding new functionalities in the
successive versions.
53. Iterative Model
• An iterative lifecycle model does not attempt to start with
a full specification of requirements.
• Instead, development begins by specifying and
implementing just part of the software, which can then be
reviewed in order to identify further requirements.
• This process is then repeated, producing a new
version of the software for each cycle of the model.
• Consider an iterative lifecycle model which consists of
repeating the following four phases in sequence:
55. • A Requirements phase, in which the requirements for
the software are gathered and analysed. Iteration should
eventually result in a requirements phase that produces
a complete and final specification of requirements.
• A Design phase, in which a software solution to meet
the requirements is designed. This may be a new
design, or an extension of an earlier design.
• An Implementation and Test phase, when the software
is coded, integrated and tested.
• A Review phase, in which the software is evaluated, the
current requirements are reviewed, and changes and
additions to requirements proposed.
56. Iterative Waterfall model
• The iterative waterfall model is classical waterfall model
with necessary changes so that it becomes applicable to
practical software development projects.
• The main change to the classical waterfall model is in
the form of providing feedback paths from every phase
to its preceding phase.
• The feedback paths allows for correction of errors
committed during a phase, as and when these are
detected in a later phase.
• The principle of detecting errors as close to their points
of introduction as possible is known as phase
containment of errors.
57.
58. Comparison of Life-Cycle Models
• Different life-cycle models have been
presented
– Each with its own strengths and weaknesses
• Criteria for deciding on a model include:
– The organization
– Its management
– The skills of the employees
– The nature of the product
• Best suggestion
– “Mix-and-match” life-cycle model