1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

maintenance of computer software and the current tools
and techniques which are used by industry to overcome
these problems.
Students develop management and design
documentation and experience working as a member of
a software project team.
Content
The software life cycle, human factors, planning tasks,
resource allocation, structured design, object oriented
design, interface design and evaluation, implementation,
testing and maintenance.
Recommended Reading
Sommerville, I., Software Engineering, Wokingham, UK, Addison
Wesley
IT601 Systems and Information Analysis 2
10 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite: IT501 System and Information Analysis 1
Assessment: research paper
A third year subject in the Bachelor of Information
~echnoiogy. '
It builds on the technical knowledg gained in earlier
0 subiects and provide students with-aiunderstanding of the
various wayiin which the total corporate computing
j environment can be designed to meet corporate information
needs and support corporate goals.
Objectives
At the end of the subject the student will be able to
understand the way that managers think and work and
the need for computer systems to improve their
effectiveness in decision making;
justify the need for careful analysis, risk assessment and
control procedures suitable for different systems
development approaches;
describe the methodologies in use in organisations and
to determine the correct development approach for
different systems;
understand the need for different approaches to
computer systems development to ensure that corporate
information needs are met and computing productivity
is maximised.
Content
Information systems theory - information needs of
management, impact of information systems on strategic
corporate plans.
Traditional life cycle development.
Problems with traditional life cycle development.User
driven computing - elimination of the functions of user and
analyst, user abilities, quality assurance, private systems;
resource requirements - hardware, software and support
structures.
Life cycle variations - methodology and scope, variations in
roles, controls framework.
Management issues - management of maintenance, risk
assessment and control review, security and privacy, human
resource planning, use and misuse of methodologies.
Recommended Reading
To be advised.
IT609 Software Engineering 2
10 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite: Software Engineering 1 Assessment
examination/tests/assignmat/project.
A third year subject in the Bachelor of Information
Technology. It builds on material covered in IT509
Software Engineering 1.
Obiectives
~hissudjkct aims to develop in more detail some of the basic
notions of the software life cycle as studied in IT509
Software Engineering 1.
A greater emphasis will be placed upon techniques for
managing and improving the process of large-scale software
development. Students should be able to apply their
understanding to the development of modern software
systems and become fully participating members of software
project teams.
Content -.- - - - - - -
Peopleware, software process models, software cost and
schedule estimation, software risk management, software
standards, software configuration management, software
quality management, software metrics. Group project.
Recommended Reading
Humphrey, W.S., Managing the Software Process, Reading,
Massachusetts, Addison-Wesley
IT701 Industry Based Learning 2
50 credit points.20 weeks full-time project work in industry
Prerequisite: sat.factoly completion of the first six segments of
the course Assessment: assignment
Objectives
To gain first-hand experience of the operation of the
information technology environment, the work of
informaton systems divisions and the workings of
organisations.
To extend the learning of the preceding segments of the
course, in particular the specialist studies undertaken.
To address issues which can better be learned from
within the industrial environment and to gain an
understanding of the relationship between the
information technology environment and the total
organisational environment.
Content
Students will work as members of the information system
and information technology environments to which they
are assigned. Students will work under the supervision of
both an industrial manager and a student manager.Students
will be expected to extend their academic studies and gain
further experience in the general areas of programming,
systems design, and user liaison, and to be closely involved
with the application of at least four of the following in their
two periods of industry based learning; data base,
comkunications, user support, systems software, automated
systems development and knowledge based systems.