East Carolina University
Department of Computer Science

CSCI 4230
Software Engineering II
Standard Syllabus

Catalog entry

4 practicum and 2 lab hours per week. P: CSCI 3030, CSCI 3700; C: CSCI 4231. Application of technical and professional skills in solving a real-world problem in a team environment. Professional code of conduct, societal issues, copyrights and patents, intellectual capital, entrepreneurship, and transition from student to an industry professional in the context of software engineering.

Course summary

This course provides practical training in software development using software engineering tools and principles. Students will practice using software development processes, methodologies, and commonly-used tools covering the complete life cycle of software development by building a fairly complex software system. Students are required to complete a significant team project during the course of the semester. This is an approved Writing Intensive (WI) course.

Course topics

• Software development processes and life cycles
• Planning and managing the project and project teams
• Version control/configuration management
• Requirements engineering
• Object-oriented analysis and design
• Software implementation
• Software testing

Student learning outcomes

• Develop software systems using state-of-art development techniques and tools that are typically used to develop large software systems
• Evaluate and choose software processes for the development of software systems
• Plan and manage realistic software development projects
• Analyze, design, and implement software systems using object-oriented methods
• Design a test plan, develop test cases and perform tests for software systems
• Document software systems
• Function and communicate effectively on team-based projects

Textbook

Grading

The course is graded based on project management (10%); configuration management (10%); requirements elicitation, analysis, and specification (15%); architecture and design (15%); implementation (20%); testing (10%); the final project report (10%); and the final project presentation (10%).

Grade meanings