Introduction to Software Engineering

📋 Course Outline

1. Software engineering definition
2. Software failures and engineering practices
3. Modeling, problem solving, and knowledge
4. Projects, participants, and roles
5. Systems, models, and work products
6. Notations, methods, and methodologies
7. Development activities and testing

📖 1. Software engineering definition

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Systematic procedures : Systematic procedures are structured ways of working used to guide large software efforts toward predictable outcomes.
• Engineering applied to software : Engineering applied to software is using disciplined engineering approaches to development, operation, and maintenance.

📝 Essential Points

• IEEE frames software engineering as a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to software development, operation, and maintenance.
• ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765:2017 defines software engineering as engineering applied to software activities.

💡 Memory Hook

Software engineering = engineering for software, done systematically and measurably.

📖 2. Software failures and engineering practices

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Poor software architecture : Poor software architecture is a structural weakness that can remove redundancy and trigger widespread failure impacts.
• Safety-critical testing : Safety-critical testing is verification intended to prevent failures in software whose errors can cause harm.

📝 Essential Points