This unit provides an introduction to the discipline of Software Engineering. The emphasis is upon a broad coverage of the areas, since students will at this early stage not have adequate programming skills to tackle many of the topics in greater depth. The notion of a software system as a model or approximation of a desired system is introduced, and used as a way of describing such things as the software life cycle and its various models, programming by contract, design and testing issues, maintenance, reuse, complexity, divide and conquer strategies, metrics and measurement, project management and software legacy.
2 hrs lectures/wk, 2 hrs laboratories/wk, 1 hr tutorial/wk
Students will be expected to spend a total of 12 hours per week during semester on this unit as follows:
CSE1401
FIT1002 or equivalent
Robert Merkel
Consultation hours: Monday 2pm-3pm Wednesday 11am-12pm
Robyn Mcnamara
Examination (3 hours): 60%; In-semester assessment: 40%
| Assessment Task | Value | Due Date |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly Quizzes | 5% | Weekly, on-line, Monday before 10am. |
| Practical class assessments | 25% | Weekly in Lab classes |
| Work Folio | 5% | Friday, Week 12 |
| Tutorial preparation and participation | 5% | Weekly in tutorial from weeks 1 to 12 |
| Examination 1 | 60% | To be advised |
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This year only minor changes have been made to the unit. There will be some extra material on software testing, and some material on legal and ethical aspects will be omitted as it will be covered more comprehensively in other units.
Staff-Student Meetings: Student also have the opportunity to provide feedback during the semester via student representatives at the Clayton School of IT Staff-Student meetings. Information about who your reps are and minutes of previous meetings are available at:
http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/current/student-resources/staff-student-meetings/clayton/2012/
If you wish to view how previous students rated this unit, please go to
https://emuapps.monash.edu.au/unitevaluations/index.jsp
Please check with your lecturer before purchasing any Required Resources. Limited copies of prescribed texts are available for you to borrow in the library, and prescribed software is available in student labs.
Prescribed text: (the lectures will follow this text quite closely, and the lecture slides from the text will be made available)
(Note: Schach's "Object-Oriented & Classical Software Engineering", 7th edition and 8th edition are very similar, and can be used in place of the 2008 "Object-oriented" version, if need be).
Pressman, R. S. (2009), Software engineering : a practitioner's approach, 7th ed, McGraw-Hill, Dubuque, IA.
Sommerville, I, (2011), Software engineering, 9th ed, International edition, Addison-Wesley, Harlow.
If you wish to work at home, you can install the free BlueJ development environment: http://www.bluej.org
No installation support will be provided for home installations of BlueJ.
The exam will be an "open book" exam. Students may take in textbooks, any of the unit teaching material and any notes they have made themselves. More details will be provided on the unit website prior to the exam.
| Week | Activities | Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Check your tutorial and lab class enrolments. | No formal assessment or activities are undertaken in week 0 |
| 1 | Introductions. Note: TUTORIALS START WEEK 1 (Monday/Tuesday) | Assessment task 4: Tutorial preparation and participation - Weekly in tutorial from weeks 1 to 12 |
| 2 | Software Lifecyles | Assessment task 1: Weekly quizzes (weeks 2-12) to be submitted via Moodle, closing each Monday before 10am; Assessment task 2: Practical class assessments - weekly (weeks 2-12) in Lab classes |
| 3 | Requirements | |
| 4 | Analysis | |
| 5 | Dynamic modelling | |
| 6 | Design | |
| 7 | Modules | |
| 8 | Testing | |
| 9 | Implementation | |
| 10 | Formal Methods | |
| 11 | Ethics | |
| 12 | Tools/Review | Assessment task 3: Work Folio due Friday |
| SWOT VAC | No formal assessment is undertaken in SWOT VAC | |
| Examination period | LINK to Assessment Policy: http://policy.monash.edu.au/policy-bank/ academic/education/assessment/ assessment-in-coursework-policy.html |
*Unit Schedule details will be maintained and communicated to you via your MUSO (Blackboard or Moodle) learning system.
Faculty Policy - Unit Assessment Hurdles (http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/resources/staff/edgov/policies/assessment-examinations/unit-assessment-hurdles.html)
Academic Integrity - Please see the Demystifying Citing and Referencing tutorial at http://lib.monash.edu/tutorials/citing/
Correct answers demonstrating basic knowledge and understanding of course material.
For group work, some marks will be for the group as a whole, some for an individual's contribution; details will be specified in the assessment task description.
Some tasks will be assessed in the lab class itself. When marking is done outside the lab, in most cases students must submit their work at the end of the lab class. Details will be given with each the lab class description provided each week.
A set of guidelines for the eFolio is provided online.
Criteria for assessing the folio are:
Students will be assessed on their participation during the tutorials, such as group work on activities and contributions to discussions. They will also be expected to prepare and make presentations to the class at various times during the semester, which will contribute to this assessment.
It is a University requirement (http://www.policy.monash.edu/policy-bank/academic/education/conduct/plagiarism-procedures.html) for students to submit an assignment coversheet for each assessment item. Faculty Assignment coversheets can be found at http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/resources/student/forms/. Please check with your Lecturer on the submission method for your assignment coversheet (e.g. attach a file to the online assignment submission, hand-in a hard copy, or use an online quiz).
Submission must be made by the due date otherwise penalties will be enforced.
You must negotiate any extensions formally with your campus unit leader via the in-semester special consideration process: http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/resources/student/equity/special-consideration.html.
If students do not attend a laboratory class, they cannot submit work for that assessment later. Late or re-submissions may be permitted at the discretion of the demonstrator or lecturer, for example if there have been technical difficulties during the laboratory class.
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You can find Monash's Education Policies at:
http://policy.monash.edu.au/policy-bank/academic/education/index.html
Key educational policies include:
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Recommended (good general "classic" software engineering texts):
Also, for the "Ethics" topic, the reading will be Chapter 8 from