The Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge

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The Guide to the Software Engineering Body of
Knowledge

• SWEBOK

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Chapters

• Introduction
• Software Requirements
• Software Design
• Software Construction
• Software Testing
• Software Maintenance
• Software Configuration Management
• Software Engineering Management
• Software Engineering Process
• Software Engineering Tools and Methods
• Software Quality

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Introduction

• Software Engineering is an emerging discipline
• Degrees offered in SE
• CSAB and ABET accreditation
• Canadian IPS accreditation
• SEI and ISO standards are used to assess
  organizations
• ACM and IEEE have code of ethics
• All of these are based on presumption that there
  is a body of knowledge that should be mastered by
  practicing software engineers

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Introduction

• Guide developed by international team from
  1993-2001
• Definition Software Engineering is the
  application of a systematic, disciplined,
  quantifiable approach to the development,
  operation, and maintenance of software that is,
  the application of engineering to software.

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Characteristics of a Profession

• Initial professional education in a curriculum
  validated by society through accreditation
• Registration of fitness to practice via voluntary
  certification or mandatory licensing
• Specialized skill development and continuing
  professional education
• Communal support via a professional society
• A commitment to norms of conduct often prescribed
  by a code of ethics.

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Objectives

• Promote a consistent view of software engineering
• Clarify the place of software engineering with
  respect to other disciplines
• Characterize the contents of the software
  engineering discipline
• Provide topical access to the body of knowledge
• Provide a foundation for curriculum development

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Software Requirements

• Requirements Engineering Process
• Requirements Elicitation
• Requirements Analysis
• Requirements Specification
• Requirements Validation
• Requirements Management

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Software Design

• Basic Concepts
• Key Issues of Software Design
• Structure and Architecture
• Software Design Quality Analysis and Evaluation
• Design Notations
• Software Design Strategies and Methods

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Software Construction

• Four principles
• reduction of complexity (remove, automate,
  localize)
• anticipation of diversity (change)
• structuring for validation
• use of external standards
• Three styles
• linguistic
• formal
• visual

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Software Testing

• Basic concepts
• Test levels
• Test techniques
• Test-related measures
• Management

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Software Maintenance

• Basic concepts
• Maintenance process
• Key issues
• Techniques for maintenance

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Software Configuration Management

• Management of SCM process
• Software configuration identification
• Software configuration control
• Software configuration status accounting
• Software configuration auditing
• Software release management and delivery

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Software Engineering Management

• Organizational management
• policies development, dissemination
• personnel hiring, retention, training
• communication
• Process/project management
• negotiation of requirements, feasibility,
  reviews, planning
• Software engineering measurement
• size, structure, quality, resources, models

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Software Engineering Process

• Process infrastructure
• Measurements
• Process definition
• Qualitative process analysis
• Process implementation and change

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Software Engineering Tools and Methods

• Software development environments
• Software development methods
• heuristic methods
• formal methods
• prototyping methods
• miscellaneous methods

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Software Quality

• Software quality concepts
• Purpose and planning of software quality
  assurance and VV
• Activities and techniques
• SQA
• VV
• Measurement applied to SQA and VV

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CSDP

• Certified Software Development Professional
• Certification for Software Engineers
• (Not a license)
• Maintained by IEEE

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CSDP Requirements

• BS or equivalent University degree
• Minimum 9,000 hours software engineering
  experience in 6 of 11 areas
• At least two (2) years of software engineering
  experience within the four-year (4) period prior
  to the application
• Exam

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CSDP Exam Areas

• I. Business Practices and Engineering Economics
  (3-4 questions)
• A. Engineering Economics B. EthicsC. Professiona
  l Practice D. Standards

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CSDP Exam Areas

• II. Software Requirements (13-15 questions)
• A. Requirements Engineering Process
  B. Requirements Elicitation C. Requirements
  Analysis D. Software Requirements Specification
  E. Requirements Validation F. Requirements
  Management

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CSDP Exam Areas

• III. Software Design (22-24 questions)
• A. Software Design ConceptsB. Software
  ArchitectureC. Software Design Quality Analysis
  and EvaluationD. Software Design Notations and
  Documentation E. Software Design Strategies and
  MethodsF. Human Factors in Software Design
  G. Software and System Safety

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CSDP Exam Areas

• IV. Software Construction (10-12 questions)
• A. Construction planningB. Code designC. Data
  design and managementD. Error processingE. Sourc
  e code organizationF. Code documentationG.
  Construction QAH. System integration and
  deploymentI. Code tuningJ. Construction tools

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CSDP Exam Areas

• V. Software Testing (15-17 questions)
• A. Types of Tests B. Test Levels C. Testing
  Strategies D. Test Design E. Test Coverage of
  Code F. Test Coverage of Specifications G. Test
  Execution H. Test Documentation I. Test
  Management

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CSDP Exam Areas

• VI. Software Maintenance (3-5 questions)
• A. Software Maintainability B. Software
  Maintenance Process  C. Software Maintenance
  Measurement D. Software Maintenance Planning
  E. Software Maintenance Management F. Software
  Maintenance Documentation

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CSDP Exam Areas

• VII. Software Configuration Management (3-4
  questions)
• A. Management of SCM ProcessB. Software
  Configuration IdentificationC. Software
  Configuration ControlD. Software Configuration
  Status AccountingE. Software Configuration
  AuditingF. Software Release Management and
  Delivery

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CSDP Exam Areas

• VIII. Software Engineering Management (10-12
  questions)
• A. Measurement B. Organizational Management and
  CoordinationC. Initiation and
  Scope DefinitionD. PlanningE. Software
  AcquisitionF. EnactmentG. Risk
  ManagementH. Review and EvaluationI. Project
  Close OutJ. Post-closure Activities

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CSDP Exam Areas

• IX. Software Engineering Process (2-4 questions)
• A. Process Infrastructure B. Process
  MeasurementC. Process DefinitionD. Qualitative
  Process AnalysisE. Process Implementation and
  Change

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CSDP Exam Areas

• X. Software Engineering Tools and Methods (2-4
  questions)
• A. Management Tools and Methods B. Development
  Tools and MethodsC. Maintenance Tools and
  MethodsD. Support Tools and Methods

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CSDP Exam Areas

• XI. Software Quality (6-8 questions)
• A. Software Quality ConceptsB. Planning for SQA
  and VVC. Methods for SQA and VVD. Measurement
  Applied to SQA and VV