Chapter 0: Software Engineering Preamble

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Chapter 0 Software Engineering Preamble

• 0.1 Me
• Dr Christophe Meudec
• Email meudecc_at_itcarlow.ie
• Twitter echancrure
• Room 911 Phone [phone]
• All notes and announcements on website
• http//glasnost.itcarlow.ie/meudecc/
• Print slides in advance and take additional notes
  during lectures and ask questions!!
• If English is not your primary language
  scanning the notes quickly before a lecture is
  very useful.
• 0.2 Bachelor of Science in Software Development
• Course code CW207-3
• Course director me
• Timetables are available outside science office
  or on the student intranet at www.itcarlow.ie
• Check your IT Carlow emails daily!
• followed by Honours Degree in Software
  Engineering in year 4

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• Major course change this year
• Introduction of a work placement period as an
  alternative to a 10 weeks projects
• gt your timetable is extremely busy!
• Rough Schedule
• 14 weeks of lectures, tutorials, and labs to
  Xmas
• 3 weeks off at Xmas
• 7 weeks of lectures, tutorials, and labs
• 2 weeks of exams (start 27 February 2012)
• Work placement ( 4 to 6 months) or Project (10
  weeks) starts 12th March 2012 and ends 18th May
  2012
• The above is subject to changes!
• More details to follow ...

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• 0.3 The subject Software Engineering within
  the Course
• 4 hours a week
• Continuous assessment 30, final exam 70 gt100
• Also helps for your project or work placement
  later

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• 0.4 What is Software Engineering About?
• Not about programming
• It is about
• Techniques, Concepts and Principles that can help
  during software development
• How to manage a software project
• Developing quality software on-time and on-budget
  

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• 0.5 Recommended Books
• Applying UML and Patterns, 3rd Ed., C. Larman
  0131489062

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• Software Engineering, 9th Ed., I. Sommerville,
  0137035152

• This book is also useful for the Software
  Engineering I subject in the honours degree
  (year 4).

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• 0.6 Websites
• Check the courses website regularly
  http//glasnost.itcarlow.ie/meudecc /
• 0.7 My Style
• Have a look at previous exams I do not ask
  definitions rote learning will not get you very
  far.
• You must be able to
• Apply the techniques we see in new contexts
• Answer general questions in your own words using
  examples
• Attending lectures is very important the notes
  on their own are not sufficient.

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• 0.8 Software Engineering in a Nutshell
• A definition!
• Software Engineering is the disciplined
  utilisation of a systematic, coherent set of
  principles, tools and techniques, within a
  planned organisational framework, the objectives
  of which is to achieve the on-schedule, cost
  effective development of quality software for a
  diverse range of non-trivial applications and
  environments
• Some of the goals that software engineering seeks
  to achieve are
• Meeting the users needs
• Low cost of production
• High dependability
• Delivery on time
• Ease of maintenance
• Portability
• High performance.
• each of these goals is also a problem!

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• We are not very good at developing software that
  meets all of these goals all of the time
  software engineering is immature.
• Developing software that meets all of the above
  is very, very difficult.
• 0.9 Conclusions
• Remember that all software have been getting more
  and more complex this trend will not stop
  anytime soon.
• Programming is easy! Software engineering is
  hard!