Indicative contents

• Differences between Procedural and object oriented programming, Object Orientation: Background, Principles, Concepts, OO Analysis, OO Design
• C++ Programming, Constructors and Destructors, friend functions & static functions
• Operator overloading, Virtual functions, Manipulating strings, Inheritance & polymorphism, Object oriented system development
• Pointers, Pointers to arrays and strings, Pointers to objects, Exceptional handling, New features of ANSI C++ standard
• SW Engineering Processes, SW Life Cycle, Process Models
• UML Basics: UML outline; UML building blocks – elements, relationships, diagrams; modelling views
• UML Modelling: Requirements - software requirements, use case modeling, conceptual modeling, and behavioral modeling; Architecture - software architecture, models, frameworks and patterns
• Design - software design, design models, design patterns; Implementation –packages, components, component diagrams; Deployment - nodes and components, deployment diagrams
• Software testing : Change management, Implementation, Testing and Integration, Verification and Validation, Testing techniques and strategies
• Unified Process - life cycle phases, workflows and UML diagrams
   

Recommended reading

• Books
  1. Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach (with CD-ROM),
     McGraw-Hill Higher Education, November 2001
  2. Savitch, 'Problem Solving with C++', Addison/Wesley/Longman, 970pp.
  3. Herb Schildt, 'Teach yourself C++', Osbourn/ McGraw-Hill, 750pp.
  4. OMG Unified Modeling Language Specification, Object Management Group.
  5. Tom Pender, UML Bible, John Wiley and Sons, 2003.
  6. Simon Bennet, Steve McRobb and Ray Farmer, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design using UML, McGraw-Hill, 2002.
  7. Sinan Si Alhir, Guide to Applying the UML, Springer, 2002.
  8. Bernd Bruegge, Allen H Dutoit, Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Prentice Hall, 2000.
  9. Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, Addison Wesley, 1999.
  10. OO Software Development Using UML, UNU-IIST Tech Report 229.
• Journals
      1. IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering
• Magazines

1. IEEE Software Magazine

• Multimedia

1. Future Cars

• Internet Sites

1. http://www.omg.org/
2. http://www.uml.org/

 

Laboratory

Hardware: PCs
Software: Rational Rose RT, Rational Test RT
Software Manual: Rational Rose RT Manuals, Rational Test RT Manuals