• Cotutela con mondo esterno
• Blended Learning & Flipped Classroom

The goal of the course is to enable students to master the engineering methods and processes that are necessary to produce complex software with industrial strength quality. The course covers the software process and its organization, requirements, design methods and tools, specification, verification and validation. Each topic is treated both theoretically and practically. Through the course, the flipped class teaching method will be exploited to allow students to acquire a good level of autonomy in learning new topics.

The software process

• Software lifecycle
• Project management and cost estimation

Notations and specification methods: Alloy 

Problem definition: requirements engineering

• Importance of requirements
• The Jackson-Zave approach (requirements, specification, domain)
• Usage of Alloy and UML to support requirement modeling activities

Methods and technologies for product development

• Software architectures and architectural styles
• Middleware and software components: J2EE

Verification and validation

• The verification and validation process
• Analysis, reviews and walkthroughs techniques
• The various facets of testing

The flipped class method will be exploited to help students in learning part of the topics related to requirement engineering and how to apply them in practical contexts.

Project laboratory activities can be optionally taken by interested students. These concern the requirement analysis and design of a realistic project, possibly followed by the development and testing of a running implementation of the assigned project, or the development of innovative research (new tools, formal specifications or empirical experiments) concerning some aspects of software engineering that will be agreed with the instructor.

Students are required to know the principles and methods of object-oriented design, the basic notions of UML, testing, and configuration management.

The assessment will be based on a written exam to be taken in the exam sessions defined by the school and covering all aspects in the syllabus. The exam is open book. It will assign up to 32 points. 30 cum laude will be assigned when the total score is equal to or higher than 31.

Optionally, the written exam can be -- partially or totally -- replaced by a project. The objective of the project is to help students in applying the approaches and principles that are taught in class. Projects will be assigned at the beginning of the semester. The release of the Requirement Analysis and Specification Document as well as the Design Document for the project will replace half of the written exam; it will assign up to 16 points and it will be considered sufficient when the score will be equal of higher than 9.  Additionally, students willing to provide a complete implementation and testing for their project or willing to participate to some research projects that will be proposed during the course will replace the written exam entirely. 

The following table provides a detailed overview of the elements that will be considered in the various assessment activities.

Available also as e-book with ISBN 978EUDTE00263

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