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Course Outline
Day 1: Process
Introduction
- Understanding Systems Engineering
- Understanding Software Engineering
- Challenges in Software Engineering
- System requirements
- System modeling
Software Engineering Processes
- Defining a Software Development Process
- Traditional processes
- Agile processes
- Processes for developing High-Integrity Systems
- Standards and certification systems
High-Integrity Systems
- Defining High-Integrity Systems
- The importance of a Quality Management culture
- Common causes of errors
- Standards for critical systems
- Reliability engineering
Software Maintenance
Day 2: Planning
Requirements
- User requirements
- Eliciting and analyzing user requirements
- System requirements
- Software requirements
- Software specification
- The requirements process
- Tools for requirements management
Software Design
- Conway's Law
- Design patterns
- Textual modeling tools
- Principles of Object-Oriented (OO) design
- Design tools
- Common architectural styles
Modeling
- Planning architecture
- UML graphical representations
- Non-UML graphical representations
Day 3: Code
Software Construction
- Translating design into code
- Programming best practices
- Code abstraction
- Programming workflow
Configuration Management
- Defining Configuration Management
- Configuration Management within ISO9000 and CMMI
- CASE tools for planning, design, and QA
- CASE tools for software development
- Version control with SVN
- System integration
Code for High-Integrity Systems
- Preventing errors
- Identifying errors
- Minimizing the impact of errors
- Common challenges in coding for High-Integrity Systems
Code Quality Metrics
- Code size metrics
- Code complexity metrics
- Non-code metrics
- Static analysis
Day 4: Verification & Validation
Reviews
- VV fundamentals
- Independent Verification & Validation
- Design and requirement reviews
- Code inspections
- Software walkthroughs
- Audits
- Additional V & V methods
Testing High-Integrity Systems
- Safety-related documentation
- Test scenarios
- Safety argumentation
- Reviews of High-Integrity Systems
- Reliability prediction
- Formal methods
- Costs of Verification & Validation
Automated Testing
- Justification for testing
- Automatic versus manual tests
- Incremental testing
- Test types
- Testing tools
- Test harnesses
Day 5: Management
Project Management
- Defining Project Management
- Customer handover procedures
- Standards (PMP, PRINCE2)
- Time management
- Cost management
- Risk management
- Project documentation
Process Evaluation
- Functions of process evaluation
- Acting on metrics
- Process metrics
- Process evaluation standards and frameworks (CMMI, ISO 9001, TickIT+)
- Process evaluation meetings
Summary and Conclusions
35 Hours
Testimonials (2)
Everything was built up from a basic level while progressing quick enough to prevent anyone getting bored.
Nathan Roberts
Course - Software Engineering
The level of inter activeness and pace meant that it was never boring.
