CS 3500 Software Engineering

This course provides a hands-on experience with the issues and techniques of software engineering. A team project applying the techniques covered is the main focus of the course. This course introduces the fundamental princples and practices of the software development process to produce quality software sytems. Several developmental paradigms, processes, models and methods will be discussed. The topics cover the entire software lfecycle that includes requirement analysis and specification, design, implementation, testing, integration, maintenance/evolution, documentation, and project management. The course also introduces APIs, CASE tools and environments, as well as the UML (Unified Modeling Language). Course offered Fall and Spring Semesters. Prerequisite(s): CS 2550 or CS 3420
Credits: 3.0