1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

IT803 Emerging Information
Technologies
30 credit points6 contact hours per week or equivalent. (Note
7;be subject may be delivered in intensive seminar style)
Hawthorn Prerequisite sat$actory compleh'on of segments
one to seuen Assessment: Team Czse Study, Team Project,
Team Project.
A Bachelor of Information Technology subject studied at
the end of 3rd year, in Summer Semester.
Objectives
To introduce students to selected technologies which are
deemed to be of emerging significance.
Content
A detailed treatment of selected technologies determined on
a year-to-year basis, as a result of consultation with sponsor
organisations.
Recommended Reading
To be advised
IT804 Computing and the Human
Context
20 credit points 6 contact hours for 6 weeks or equivalent. (Noe
% subject mav be deliwed in intensive seminar stvle)
~azkthorn 0 Prerequisite satisfactory completion if segments
one to seven. Assessment: Examination/Assiament.
A Bachelor of Information Technology subGct studied at
the end of 3rd year, in Summer Semester.
Objectives
To guide students to analyse the effects of computers in
society.
To formulate and justify opinions on pertinent social
issues.
Content
A selection from
Social implications of computer applications in an
information society
Impacts of information technology on workplace and
organisations
Human issues effects of standardisation
The nature of values, leisure and technology
Social issues within the computer industry
Professionalism, codes of conduct, codes of practice
The copyrights of software and hardware
Surveys about computers, technological change and
forecasting
Privacy and security issues
Computer crimes and fraud
Societal issues and perspectives
Information systems in economic development
Goals in computer usage, motivating forces, computers
in developing countries
Computers and the arts
Mind and machines
User liaison strategies
Recommended Reading
To be advised.
IT901 Software Process 1
12.5 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite:: Nil Assessmmt: tests, assignments and a
final examination
This is a subject in the Master of Information Technology.
Objectives
To review the software engineering lifecycle.
To study the personal software engineering skills needed
by the software professional who is to participate in the
analysis, design and implementation of large scale
software.
Content
Part 1: Software lifecycle models; Software process
models; Overview of the software lifecycle (planning;
specification; design; implementation; testing;
maintenance).
Part 2: Detailed study of the personal software
process (Scripts and Logs; Planning; Design; Code;
Compile; Test; Post mortem; Plan Summary;
Measurement of the Software Process;
Defining your Personal Software Process).
Recommended Reading
Pfleeger, S.L., Software Engineering - Be
Production of Qualiry Software, Maxwell MacMillan
International Editions
Pressman, R.S. Software Engineering - A Practitioner's
Approach, McGraw Hill
Sommerville, I. Software Engineering. Addison Wesley.
Humphrey, W.S. A Discipline for Software Engineering,
Addison-Wesley
IT903 Software Engineering Project
JO credit points No foml chses: regular meetings with project
supervisor will be arranged Prerequisites: ID03 is only
available to students who have completed the Sofiware
Engimneang cluster in the Master of Information Tmbnology
Instruction: .rerorkshop and laboratory sessions, together w.th
team and individual consultation .with staff as required
Assessment by deliwable item appriutefor the complete
documentation of a sofrware development project, and by wbal
presentation
A project in the Master of Information Technology degree.
Objectives
The aim is to provide an opportunity for students to
develop, in a team, a significantly complex software system,
using appropriate object-oriented methodologies. The
development will encompass the whole software
development process, and will be conducted using a process
conforming with the SE1 Capability Maturity Model, Level
L.
Content
The system will be developed by a team of students,
following a software process model appropriate for an
object-oriented development methodology. Students will
consider all management and technical issues associated with
such a development, and will use a state-of-the-art software
development environment to develop a system.