A comprehensive BCA course covering all key units of Software Engineering Notes,
from software development life cycle models and requirement analysis to design, testing, and maintenance.
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Course Units
Unit 1: Introduction to Software Engineering
Unit 2: Requirements Engineering
Unit 3: Software Design
Unit 4: Software Construction and Testing
Unit 5: Software Maintenance and Quality Assurance
Syllabus: Software Engineering Notes
UNIT – 1
(a) Introduction to Software Engineering –
i) Definition, nature, and scope of software engineering
ii) Software process models – Waterfall, Prototyping, Spiral, Agile
iii) Characteristics of good software
iv) Software development life cycle (SDLC)
(b) Software Project Management –
Project planning and scheduling
Cost estimation techniques – COCOMO
Risk analysis and management
Project tracking and control
UNIT – 2
Requirements Engineering:
Requirement gathering and analysis
Types of requirements – functional and non-functional
Feasibility study
Software Requirement Specification (SRS) document
Requirements validation and management
UNIT – 3
Software Design:
Design principles – modularity, abstraction, coupling, cohesion
System design vs. detailed design
Architectural design – layered, client-server, MVC
UML diagrams – class, use-case, sequence diagrams
UNIT – 4
Software Construction and Testing:
Coding practices and standards
Code documentation
Unit testing, Integration testing, System testing, Acceptance testing
Black-box and white-box testing
Test automation basics
UNIT – 5
Software Maintenance and Quality Assurance:
Types of maintenance – corrective, adaptive, perfective, preventive
Software evolution and reengineering
Software quality attributes – reliability, usability, maintainability
Software quality assurance (SQA) activities
Software metrics – product and process metrics