Software Engineering Project A

Aims and objectives

• Demonstrate understanding of issues within the software development life cycle and critically evaluate personal performance
• Apply software development techniques to create prototypes and software systems that satisfy specific project requirements
• Generate technical documents according to relevant standards, and apply appropriate tracking and control procedures
• Plan, identify and conduct software testing including the design, construction and evaluation of appropriate user interfaces 
• Apply version control and other relevant techniques to manage various software artefacts
• Engage in client interaction and provide technical presentations at various phases of the project 
• Demonstrate professional practice when conducting meetings and code reviews
• Demonstrate the ability to balance time, meet deadlines, maintain engagement throughout the conduct of the project
• Address challenges in the management and coordination aspects of a project

• Discipline Specific: Proficiently applies advanced technical knowledge of the specific discipline within that context.
• Emerging Disciplinary Trends: Interprets and applies current or emerging knowledge from inside and outside the specific discipline. 
• Practice Context: Discerns and appreciates the contextual factors affecting professional engineering practice.
• Professional Practice: Appreciates the principles of professional engineering practice in a sustainable context. 
• Engineering Methods: Applies engineering methods in practical applications. 
• Problem Solving: Systematically uses engineering methods in solving complex problems. 
• Design: Systematically uses engineering methods in design. 
• Project Management: Systematically uses engineering methods in conducting and managing projects.
• Ethics: Values the need for, and demonstrates, ethical conduct and professional accountability.
• Communication: Demonstrates effective communication to professional and wider audiences.
• Information Management: Demonstrates seeking, using, assessing and managing information. 
• Professional Self: Demonstrates professionalism. 
• Management of Self: Demonstrates self-management processes. 
• Teamwork: Demonstrates effective team membership and team leadership.

Teaching methods

Assessment

Generic skills outcomes

Content

• Communication skills in dealing with clients and colleagues
• (Object Oriented) Analysis and requirements gathering
• (Object Oriented) Design
• Quality assurance via process
• Test planning, execution and record-keeping
• Working to standards
• Technical documentation
• Version control
• Software process
• Tools