Undergraduate Handbook - School of Computing and Informatics ...
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iii. A. Burns <strong>and</strong> A. Wellings, Real-Time Systems <strong>and</strong> Programming Languages, Addison Wesley, 3rd edition,<br />
2001.<br />
BSE 3103: Requirements Engineering (4 CU)<br />
Course Description: At the end <strong>of</strong> the course students should be able to: Underst<strong>and</strong> the principles, tools, <strong>and</strong><br />
techniques for requirements elicitation, specification, <strong>and</strong> analysis; demonstrate the role <strong>of</strong> requirements in system<br />
development <strong>and</strong> maintenance; <strong>and</strong> appreciate the difficulties <strong>of</strong> specifying requirements for real systems, as well as<br />
effective methods tools <strong>and</strong> techniques.<br />
Indicative Content: System <strong>and</strong> S<strong>of</strong>tware System Engineering; S<strong>of</strong>tware Requirements Concepts; Requirements<br />
Elicitation; S<strong>of</strong>tware Requirements Analysis, S<strong>of</strong>tware Requirements Specifications, S<strong>of</strong>tware Requirements Tools,<br />
S<strong>of</strong>tware Requirements Verification; S<strong>of</strong>tware Requirements Engineering Management; Developing a Successful<br />
S<strong>of</strong>tware Requirement.<br />
Reference Books:<br />
i. P. Loucopoulos <strong>and</strong> V. Karakostas, System Requirements Engineering, McGraw-Hill.<br />
ii. D. Leffingwell, D. Widrig, A. Wesley, Managing S<strong>of</strong>tware Requirements: A Use Case Approach, 2nd<br />
edition, Boston.<br />
iii. L. Chung, B. Nixon, E. Yu <strong>and</strong> J. Mylopoulos, Non-Functional Requirements in S<strong>of</strong>tware Engineering,<br />
Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2000.<br />
iv. A. M. Davis, S<strong>of</strong>tware Requirements: Objects, Functions, & States, Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs, 1993.<br />
v. R. H. Thayer <strong>and</strong> M. Dortman, System <strong>and</strong> S<strong>of</strong>tware Requirements Engineering: Tutorial, (Editors), IEEE<br />
Computer Society Press.<br />
BSE 3105: S<strong>of</strong>tware Evolution (4 CU)<br />
Course Description: In this course, students will learn: How selected s<strong>of</strong>tware systems can be analyzed to<br />
underst<strong>and</strong> properties <strong>of</strong> their evolution; <strong>and</strong> interpret their implication.<br />
Indicative Content: Separate compilation; design issues; verification <strong>and</strong> validation; integrating components;<br />
documentation , Issues in object-oriented programming; parallelism; event centered programming; common design<br />
patterns; s<strong>of</strong>tware reuse, The Laws <strong>of</strong> S<strong>of</strong>tware Evolution Client-server computing: S<strong>of</strong>tware support needed for<br />
client <strong>and</strong> server implementation; varieties <strong>of</strong> server structures; Reverse engineering <strong>and</strong> reverse engineering tools,<br />
recognizing s<strong>of</strong>tware architecture <strong>and</strong> design patterns in existing s<strong>of</strong>tware systems S<strong>of</strong>tware transformation,<br />
migration, <strong>and</strong> reengineering, recovering s<strong>of</strong>tware components for reuse<br />
Reference Books:<br />
i. L. J. Arthur, S<strong>of</strong>tware Evolution: A S<strong>of</strong>tware Maintenance Challenge, John Wiley & Sons, 1988.<br />
ii. R. C. Seacord, D. Plakosh, <strong>and</strong> G. A. Lewis, Modernizing Legacy Systems: S<strong>of</strong>tware Technologies,<br />
Engineering Processes, <strong>and</strong> Business Practices, Addison-Wesley Pub Co; 1st edition, 2003.<br />
iii. T. M. Pigoski, Practical S<strong>of</strong>tware Maintenance: Best Practices for Managing Your S<strong>of</strong>tware Investment,<br />
John Wiley & Sons, 1st edition, 1996.<br />
iv. D. D. Smith, Designing Maintainable S<strong>of</strong>tware, Springer-Verlag, 1999.<br />
v. R. B. Grady, S<strong>of</strong>tware Metrics: Establishing A Company-Wide Program, Prentice Hall; 1st edition, 1987.<br />
BSE 3106: Mobile Networks <strong>and</strong> <strong>Computing</strong> (4 CU)<br />
Course Description: At the end <strong>of</strong> the course, students will be able to: Underst<strong>and</strong> the basic principle, architecture<br />
<strong>and</strong> challenges <strong>of</strong> wireless networks <strong>and</strong> mobile computing systems; <strong>and</strong> demonstrate knowledge <strong>of</strong> s<strong>of</strong>tware<br />
development related to mobile computing systems.<br />
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