Software Engineering and Modeling syllabus

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• Software Engineering: Definition, Importance, Software Crisis, Software Myths & Reality, The Software Process: Software Process Framework, SDLC, Prescriptive Process Models: Waterfall, V- Model, Incremental, Evolutionary Process Models: Prototyping, Spiral, Rapid Application Development (RAD), Agile Development Models: What Is Agility? Agility and the Cost of Change, Extreme Programming, Other Agile Process Models, Overview of Scrum and Kanban.
• Case Study: Development of an Online Examination System to demonstrate various Software Life Cycle Models and Software Process Structures.

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• Requirements Engineering, Establishing the Groundwork: Identifying Stakeholders, Recognizing Multiple Viewpoints, working toward Collaboration, Asking the First Questions, Non-functional Requirements, Traceability Eliciting Requirements: Collaborative Requirements Gathering, Usage Scenarios, Elicitation Work Products, Developing Use Cases, Building the Analysis Model, Elements of the Analysis Model, Negotiating Requirements: Requirement Validation and Management.
• Software Requirements Specification (SRS) Case Study: Requirements Engineering and SRS development for a College ERP System covering stakeholder identification, requirement elicitation, use case modelling, non-functional requirements, validation and traceability.

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• Introduction to Software Architecture, Architectural design principles and patterns, Types of architectures: Layered, Client-Server, Micro services, MVC, Architectural styles and quality attributes, Architecture documentation (4+1 view model), Object Modelling Using UML Basic Object-Orientation Concepts, Unified Modelling Language (UML), UML Diagrams, Use Case Model, Class Diagrams, Interaction Diagrams, State Chart Diagram, Activity Diagrams, Package Diagrams, Component Diagrams, Deployment Diagram.
• Case Study: Design and UML modelling of a Library Management System to demonstrate abstraction, modularity, object-oriented design principles, and complete UML modelling including structural and behavioural diagrams.

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• Software Project Management Complexities, Project Planning, Metrics for Project Size Estimation, Project Estimation Techniques, Empirical Estimation Techniques, COCOMO—A Heuristic Estimation Technique, Scheduling, Organisation and Team Structures, Staffing, Risk Management, Software Configuration Management.
• Software Testing, A Strategic Approach to Software Testing, Test Strategies for Conventional Software, Test Strategies for Object-Oriented Software, Test Strategies for WebApps, Validation Testing, System Testing, Debugging, Defect Life Cycle, Manual and Automated testing Case Study: Software Project Planning, Estimation, Scheduling, Risk and Configuration Management for an E-Governance Citizen Service Portal using COCOMO and empirical estimation techniques.
• Case Study: Testing of an Online Shopping Web Application covering manual and automated testing, test planning, strategic testing approaches, object-oriented testing, Web application testing, validation, system testing and debugging techniques.

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• Agile and DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps and Secure Software Development, Software Architecture Patterns (Event-Driven, Serverless, Reactive Systems), AI in Software Engineering (AIassisted development, automated testing), Low-Code / No-Code Platforms, Software Sustainability and Green Computing.
• Case Study: Design and implementation of a Smart City Service Portal using Agile practices, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Microservices architecture, Cloud-native deployment, and reusable software components.