System Engineering

1
System Engineering

• Recognizing the Importance of the Softwares
  Context

2
Parts of a System

• Hardware
• Software
• People
• Data (or databases or information)
• Procedures
• Environment
• Additional Equipment
• Constraints (e.g., performance, cost, size, power)

3
Additional Points of Emphasis

• System engineering often takes a
  system-of-systems view which is not unlike
  software engineerings model decompositions (pgs
  124-126)
• Types of factors which constrain systems (pg 127)
• The increasing importance of simulation for
  reactive (or real-time) computer systems (pg 128)
• Various UML diagrams for system modeling (pgs
  136-138)