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Day 1: Process

Introduction

  • What is Systems Engineering?
  • What is Software Engineering?
  • Why is Software Engineering challenging?
  • System requirements
  • System modelling

Software Engineering Processes

  • What is a Software Development Process?
  • Traditional Processes
  • Agile Processes
  • Processes for building High-Integrity Systems
  • Standards & certification systems

High-Integrity Systems

  • What are High-Integrity Systems?
  • The role of Quality Management (QM) culture
  • Root causes of errors
  • Critical systems standard
  • Reliability engineering

Software Maintenance

Day 2: Planning

Requirements

  • User requirements
  • Elicitation and analysis of user requirements
  • System requirements
  • Software requirements
  • Software specification
  • The requirements process
  • Tools for managing requirements

Software Design

  • Conway's Law
  • Design patterns
  • Textual modelling tools
  • Principles of Object-Oriented (OO) design
  • Design tools
  • Common architectures

Modelling

  • Planning an architecture
  • UML graphical representations
  • Non-UML graphical representations

Day 3: Code

Software Construction

  • Translating design into code
  • Programming best practices
  • Code abstraction
  • Programming workflow

Configuration Management

  • What is Configuration Management?
  • Configuration Management in ISO 9000 and CMMI
  • CASE tools for planning, design and QA
  • CASE tools for software development
  • Version control with SVN
  • System Integration

Code for High-Integrity Systems

  • Preventing errors
  • Detecting errors
  • Reducing the impact of errors
  • Common challenges with code for High-Integrity Systems

Code quality metrics

  • Code size metrics
  • Code complexity metrics
  • Non-code metrics
  • Static analysis

Day 4: Verification & Validation

Reviews

  • Fundamentals of V&V
  • Independent Verification and Validation
  • Design and requirements reviews
  • Code inspections
  • Software walkthroughs
  • Audits
  • Other V&V methods

Testing High-Integrity Systems

  • Safety documentation
  • Scenarios
  • Argumentation for safety
  • Reviews of High-Integrity Systems
  • Predicting reliability
  • Formal methods
  • Costs of V&V

Automated Testing

  • Why test?
  • Automated versus manual testing
  • Incremental testing
  • Types of tests
  • Testing tools
  • Test harnesses

Day 5: Management

Project Management

  • What is Project Management?
  • Customer handover
  • Standards (PMP, PRINCE2)
  • Time management
  • Cost management
  • Risk management
  • Project documentation

Process Evaluation

  • The role of process evaluation
  • Acting on metrics
  • Process metrics
  • Process evaluation standards and frameworks (CMMI, ISO 9001, TickIT+)
  • Process evaluation meetings

Summary and Conclusions

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