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QC3002: PRINCIPLES OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (2024-2025)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 14:16


Course Overview

Students will develop large commercial and industrial software systems as a team-based effort that puts technical quality at centre stage. The module will focus on the early stage of software development, encompassing team building, requirements specification, architectural and detailed design, and software construction. Group work (where each team of students will develop a system selected using a business planning exercise) will guide the software engineering learning process. Teams will be encouraged to have an active, agile approach to problem solving through the guided study, evaluation and integration of practically relevant software engineering concepts, methods, and tools.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 3
Term First Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Offshore Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Saad Kashem

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Principles of Software Engineering aims at providing students with both an in-width and an in-depth understanding of disciplined approaches to the software development process, which facilitates the further in-depth understanding gained during the subsequent sibling course in term two.

Teamwork-based practicals focusing on the preliminary stage of a software development project aims at complementing the learning process. 


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

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Teamwork project white paper; teamwork project initial technical report; proof-of concept software

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Formative Assessment

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Resit Assessments

Individual task equivalent to group work

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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ReflectionCreateOperative knowledge of software development paradigms and of their role in the software development process.
ReflectionCreateOperative knowledge of software requirements elicitation and analysis principles and techniques.
ProceduralEvaluateOperative knowledge of quality assurance principles and techniques, with particular emphasis on software testing methodologies and techniques.
ProceduralEvaluateOperative knowledge of software design principles and pattern-based design techniques.
ProceduralAnalyseOperative knowledge of project management concepts, methodologies, and tasks.

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