This subject will enable the diploma students to have awareness about software

engineering, various matrics, planning about software, cost estimation, software

design etc

The system concepts, characteristics of a system, organization, interaction, inter

dependence, integration, control objectives, Introduction system development life

cycle (SLDC), Phases of SDLC, identification, Preliminary investigation/study, facts

gathering and its techniques(Interviews, questionnaires, Background reading, onsite

observation, record gathering etc), types of feasibility- operational, technical,

economical, System analysis, System design (Data flow diagram, data dictionary)

,testing, implementation

Introduction to Software Engineering , size factors. Quality and productivity factors.

Management issues, Models: waterfall, spiral, prototyping, fourth generation

techniques, software process.

Software Metrics Engineering: Size, function and design oriented metrics, Halstead

software science, Planning : The development process, an organizational structure,

other planning activities

Software Cost Estimations: Cost factors, cost estimations techniques. Staffing level

estimation, estimating software maintenance costs, COCOMO.

Software Requirements Definition: Problem analysis, requirement engineering. The

software requirements specifications (SRS), formal specifications techniques,

characteristics of a good SRS

Software Design and Implementation Issue: Fundamental design concept, design

notations, design techniques, structured coding techniques, coding styles,

documentation guidelines. Software Quality Assurance. Risk Management.

Software Testing: Introduction of software testing, Importance of software testing and

standardization, Testing process, Design of test cases, Functional Testing: Boundary

value analysis, Equivalence class testing, Decision table testing, Cause effect graphing,

Structural testing, Path testing, Data flow and mutation testing, Unit testing, Integration

and system testing, Debugging, Alpha & beta testing, testing tools & standards.

1. Software Engineering by Rajib Mall, PHI Publishers, New Delhi.

2. An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering by Pankaj Jalote, Narosa

Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., Darya Ganj, New Delhi 110002.

3. Software Engineering, Sangeeta Sabharwal, New Age International, Delhi.

4. Software Engineering by K.K. Aggarwal and Yogesh Singh.

5. Software Engineering – A Practitioner's Approach by R.S. Pressman, Tata

McGraw Hill Publishers, New Delhi.