Software Engineering 1

COMP23311 Software Engineering 1 10 Semester 1 Undergraduate Level 2 Thomas Carroll Unit coordinator Department of Computer Science 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Middle part of Bachelors ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 5.0 While software engineering tends to involve a lot of programming, it is not synonymous with programming. Software Engineering is more concerned with the processes that are involved in the definition, creation, improvement, deployment, and maintenance of software artifacts. The course is a mixture of theoretical and practical work. The course allows students the opportunity to not only acquire the technical skills beneficial to a career in Software Engineering, but to also develop a critical understanding of how various social and technical phenomena may affect the profession going into the future.   While software engineering tends to involve a lot of programming, it is not synonymous with programming. Software Engineering is more concerned with the processes that are involved in the definition, creation, improvement, deployment, and maintenance of software artifacts. The course is a mixture of theoretical and practical work. The course allows students the opportunity to not only acquire the technical skills beneficial to a career in Software Engineering, but to also develop a critical understanding of how various social and technical phenomena may affect the profession going into the future.   The unit aims to acquaint students with software engineering as an intellectual discipline and as a profession and equip them with basic knowledge and skills required of a competent junior software engineer. ILO 1: Interpret, evaluate, and create a variety of technical analyses and assessments (e.g., of libraries or technologies) and present results at various levels of detail (e.g., to colleagues vs. to managers vs. to customers). ILO 2: Perform basic development management tasks (e.g., planning, estimation, problem description, issue tracking)ILO 3: Describe fundamental concepts in software engineering (including complex systems, stages of development lifecycle, quality assurance, testing). ILO 4: Design and implement a small scale, “from scratch” software engineering project from start to finish comparable to what would be needed for a 3rd year project. ILO 5: Assess the effects of social and technical trends on projects and the profession (e.g., how generative AI affects product development and, as a product, society). ILO 6: Perform basic software construction tasks (e.g., design, debugging, refactoring, artifact management) in the context of a development project. ILO 7: Describe relations between technical details and business, social, and ethical values.  Analytical skills Group/team working Innovation/creativity Leadership Project management Oral communication Problem solving Written communication Key topics:<ul><li>Core definitions, i.e., what is software engineering?<ul><li>Systems vs. Projects</li><li>Relation to (complex) system engineering</li></ul></li><li>Claims and evidence<ul><li>What sorts of claims do we make about projects and systems?</li><li>What sorts of evidence can we mobilize for these claims?</li></ul></li><li>Complexity and its management</li><li>System and project qualities, their measurement, and assurance</li><li>Testing as a primary evidence and development mechanism</li><li>Various software construction tasks<ul><li>Designing, debugging, performance analysis</li></ul></li><li>Ethical, business, and social issues</li><li>Software engineering professionalism</li><li>Software system security</li><li>The current LLM driven transformation of software engineering</li></ul> Lectures 1 introductory lecture in semester 1, week 1.Workshops One 2 hour workshop each week.  In these sessions, you will gain practical, hands-on experience of the techniques being taught.Team Study Sessions Two 1 hour sessions per week.  In these sessions you will:<ul dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <li> Work with your team on the team coursework</li> <li> Meet your industrial mentor (2 sessions per team)</li> <li> Get your team coursework marked in a face-to-face interview (3 sessions per team).</li></ul>Offline Study A number of off-line study activities and readings are provided, that build on and consolidate the topics covered in workshops.  These are compulsory and are assessed in the coursework and exam. 1 Written exam 70% 8 Practical skills assessment 30% Staff and TAs will be on hand to provide face-to-face informal feedback during workshops and team study sessions.The RoboTA system will provide continuous feedback on aspects of the team marking system, using the Jenkins continuous integration system.TAs will also provide written and verbal feedback on coursework, once marking is complete. COMP16321 Introduction to Programming 1 Pre-Requisite Compulsory COMP16412 Introduction to Programming 2 Pre-Requisite Compulsory Students who are not from the School of Computer Science must have permission from both Computer Science and their home School to enrol. 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