Software

Engineering II

lecture 00: Course Orientation

Abdul Khaleq Herawi
July 2023
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Outline
• Course organization (course policy)
• Group forming

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Course Description

• Intermediate Software Engineering

 Prerequisite:CS301–Practical Foundations of Computer
Science I
 Prerequisite to : CS403+CS406 – Practical Computer
Science V + VI
 Number of Credits : 5 CP

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 Type of Course : Major/Compulsory Course

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 Faculty : Computer Science Faculty

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Course Objectives

• Important technologies for software development.

• Emphasizing on underlying principles and
intermediate concepts, rather than meticulousness
and completeness.
• Key problem of software development to have a
functioning communication between the involved

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human parties.

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Methods/Strategies

• Lecture presentation
• Exercises
 Assignments to be carried out in groups at home
 Debriefing
 Q&A
• Tutorial (if needed)

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 Q&A
 Panel discussions

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Assessment

• Exercises: 20 %
• Mid-term Exam: 20 %
• Final Exam: 60 %

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Literature

• Sommerville, I. Software Engineering (10th

Edition), 2016
• Freeman et.al., Head First Design Pattern, 2004
• Marsic, I.; Software Engineering, Rutgers, 2012

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Course Content
• SDLC
1. Design Patterns
2. Software Testing
3. Software Maintenance/Evolution
• Advance Software Engineering
1. Software Reuse
2. Component-Based Software Engineering
3. Distributed Software Engineering

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Others

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1. Information Security
2. XML & Data Representation

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Forming group
• Cooperative learning is team-based learning
• What is a team?
“A team is a small number of
people with complementary
skills who are committed to a
common purpose, performance
goals, and approach for which
they hold themselves mutually

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accountable”. --

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Team formation
• Team size
• Grouping criteria
 Levels of academic achievement
 Learning styles or personality types
 Ethnic or racial backgrounds or where their family lives
• Diversity

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• Taking up roles

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Taking up roles
• Below are common responsibilities given to each member in a
group:
1. Moderator/Chairperson: Keeps the group on track, ensures
focus and full participation
2. Recorder/scriber: Records assignments, strategies,
unresolved issues, data, convenes group outside of class
3. Skeptic: Asks for verification, validity and provokes given
ideas
4. Reporter: Listens with a view to presenting a summary to

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5. Accuracy coach: Checks group understanding, finds
resources

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Forming your team
1. Choose a name
2. Consider all mentioned issues
3. Roles:
 we can merge some roles

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Additionally:

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choosing
your pair

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Review

• In Software Engineering I; We have discussed Software

Development Life Cycle (SDLC) briefly
 Requirement specification
 Analysis & design
 Implementation

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Questions