Large-Scale Software Engineering - CHS2402

Assessment 1: Written practice exercise

Feedback to students will be given in relation to activities and case studies during practical sessions and through the University’s VLE at key points in the year. Activities and case studies will relate to both coursework assignments so as to facilitate confidence to undertake and excel in them.

Written practice exercise

Assessment 1: Portfolio

A portfolio produced working in groups given a description of a large-scale software engineering project, explaining how the group would tackle the project in terms of planning and design, addressing all decisions up to (but not including) implementation. Indicative issues that should be addressed involve choosing a suitable software process model, adopting Agile principles, project scheduling, requirements engineering, risk management, security engineering and software modelling and design. Deliverables include a report (indicatively 2400 words) and modelling and design artefacts, risk and scheduling diagrams.

Portfolio

Assessment 2: Portfolio

A portfolio produced individually, working on exercises and activities that cover topics such as configuration management, software quality, metrics and testing, project estimation, software implementation and debugging. Deliverables include a report (indicatively 1600 words) and associated software artefacts.

<p>Modern software engineering projects have become increasingly larger, in terms of hardware, source code, numbers of users or data volume. This module provides an analysis of the problems associated with large-scale software engineering projects and the practices, procedures, techniques and tools designed to address these issues. You will investigate all stages of a large-scale project: choosing a process model, scheduling, cost estimation, requirements engineering, risk management, security, modelling and design, quality assurance, testing and maintenance and overall management of the project. You will consider issues within these stages arising due to large scales, along with optimal solutions that can guarantee successful and timely delivery of a large-scale software project.</p>

School of Computing and Engineering

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Computing and Information Systems

CHS2402 - Large-Scale Software Engineering

Large-Scale Software Engineering

Discuss and evaluate techniques for assessing the quality of software artefacts and the software process itself.

Produce documentation that is relevant to a large-scale software project, such as scheduling plans, risk registers, cost estimates, quality and testing reports.

Analyse systematically software risks and how they might be addressed.

Investigate and apply current methodologies, tools and techniques relevant to the management and delivery of large-scale software projects.

Discuss the problems inherent in large-scale software development projects and the need for software project management including configuration management, version control and project estimation.