Software Engineering's

Software : software characteristics and appli1cations, software engineering - a layered 

technology, software process models - linear sequential model, prototype & RAD model, 

incremental model and spiral model. Project metrics: software measurement–size oriented, 

function oriented metrics, extended function point metrics. 

UNIT - II 

Software project planning: objectives, decomposition techniques, and empirical estimation models. Analysis concept and principles: requirement analysis, analysis principles. 

UNIT – III 

Design concepts and principles: design process, design concepts, design principles, effective modular design, human computer interface design, interface design guidelines. 

UNIT – IV 

S/w quality assurance: quality concepts, reliability s/w testing models: s/w testing 

fundamentals, white and black box testing, basic path testing, testing strategies: strategic approach to s/w testing, unit testing, integration testing, validation testing, system testing.

UNIT - V

S/w reuse: reuse process, classification and retrieving components, economics of s/w reuse

Software maintenance- need for software maintenance, maintenance models.

Software configuration management (SCM) – version control – SCM process – software

configuration items

Computer aided software engineering (CASE): introduction to case, taxonomy of case tools