This course is one of three courses (COMP2500, COMP2510, COMP3110) that address constructive aspects of the software development process for software engineering students. It has a primary focus on the design phase. The course also studies aspects of the principles and practices of software engineering.
The following topics are covered; Introduction to requirements specifications; Designing to specifications; The design milieu (notations, documentation standards); Design techniques (object-oriented, software architectures, design patterns, structured); Design review; Design in the context of requirements change; Principles of quality in design.

On completion of this course the student will be able to do the following:

• Use well-structured diagrams and text to describe the design of medium-scale software system
• Write informal requirements for a medium-small software system
  
• Create and describe the design of a small scale software system 
• Critically compare the design of medium-small software systems for related purposes
• Select and analyse the application of software pattern definitions to a design problem
  
• Recognise and illustrate the relationships and processes between requirements, design, and implementation in the standard software life cycle
• Demonstrate a reasonable choice of classes and relationships to model system fragments to meet partial system requirements
• Find and select software from that which is openly available to approximately meet system requirements
• Understand a range of basic software design patterns
• Use software design patterns in medium-small software design
• Get to know some of software engineering research topics, such as Model-Driven-Engineering, Software Economics, and Reverse Engineering

Assignments (50%); Presentation (10%); Final Exam (40%)

Thirty one-hour lectures, six one-hour tutorial and one two-hour laboratory sessions, and three two-hour seminars

Enrolment in BSEng 4708 or 4711 or 4712 and COMP1510 or COMP1110 and MATH1005 or MATH1014 or MATH1116

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