Software engineering project

This lesson comprises eight (8) master classes focusing on:

• Requirements
• Design
• Implementation
• Testing
• Project Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Decision Making
• Post-mortems

Content:

Identifying and defining

• Define and analyse the requirements of a problem, including:
  • demonstrating need(s) or opportunities
  • assessing scheduling and financial feasibility
  • generating requirements including functionality and performance
  • defining data structures and data types
  • defining boundaries
• Explore tools used to develop ideas and generate solutions, including:
  • brainstorming, mind-mapping and storyboards
  • data dictionaries, including selecting appropriate data types
  • algorithm design
  • code generation
  • testing and debugging
  • installation
  • maintenance
• Investigate types of software implementation methods, including:
  • direct
  • phased
  • parallel
  • pilot

Research and planning

• Research and use the Waterfall software development approach, including:
  • logical progression of steps used throughout the life cycle
  • stages of ‘falling water’
  • advantages and disadvantages
  • scale and types of developments
• Research and use the Agile software development approach, including:
  • rate of developing a final solution
  • method tailoring
  • iteration workflow
  • scale and types of developments
• Research the WAgile software development approach, including:
  • understanding it is a hybrid model
  • analysis of the ‘when’ and ‘how’ intervention is applied during the development life cycle
  • scale and types of developments
• Apply project management to plan and conduct the development and implementation of a project and software engineering solution, including:
  • scheduling and tracking using a software tool, including Gantt charts
  • using collaboration tools
• Explore social and ethical issues associated with project work, including working individually, collaboratively and responding to stakeholders
• Explore communication issues associated with project work, including:
  • involving and empowering the client
  • enabling feedback
  • negotiating
• Investigate how software engineering solutions are quality assured, including:
  • defining criteria on which quality will be judged
  • ensuring requirements are met using a continual checking process
  • addressing compliance and legislative requirements
• Demonstrate the use of modelling tools
• Explain the contribution of back-end engineering to the success and ease of software development, including:
  • technology used
  • error handling
  • interfacing with front end
  • security engineering

Producing and implementing

• Design, construct and implement a solution to a software problem using appropriate development approach(es)
• Present a software engineering solution using presentation software
• Develop, construct and document algorithms
• Allocate resources to support the development of a software engineering solution
• Demonstrate the use of programmed data backup
• Implement version control when developing a software engineering solution
• Explore strategies to respond to difficulties when developing a software engineering solution, including:
  • looking for a solution online
  • collaboration with peers
  • outsourcing
• Propose an additional innovative solution using a prototype and user interface (UI) design

Testing and evaluating

• Apply methodologies to test and evaluate code
• Use a language-dependent code optimisation technique
• Analyse and respond to feedback
• Evaluate the effectiveness of a software engineering solution, including:
  • developing a report to synthesise feedback
  • developing a test plan
  • testing data used/generated based on path and boundary testing
  • comparing actual output with expected output