Object Oriented Programming

Software Engineering Introduction

© Nissim Brami

Professional Software development

Prerequisites: Data Structure, OOP

Final grade: Project – 40%

Test – 60% (Must pass the test - 60)

Teaching: 3h lectures, 2h tutorials

Course Goals

• To provide you a general introduction to software engineering.
• To introduce you important concepts such as software processes and agile methods, and describe essential software development activities, from initial software specification through to system evolution.
• All code products will be developed in JAVA language, so you also will learn basic JAVA

Outline

Introduction
Software processes
Software development models

Software costs

• Software costs often dominate computer system costs. The costs of software on a PC are often greater than the hardware cost.
• Software costs more to maintain than it does to develop. For systems with a long life, maintenance costs may be several times development costs.
• Software engineering is concerned with cost-effective software development.

Professional Software development

• Software is written for many needs such as: simplify office work (by excel or word for example), processes data by scientists and more.
• However, Software development is where software is developed for specific business
• Is usually developed by teams rather that individuals

Professional Software development

• If you are writing professional software that other people will use and other engineers will change then you need to provide documentation, configuration and more to make the program operate correctly
• Software Engineering is intended to support professional software development
• It includes techniques that support specification, design and evolution, so software in a manner of software engineering is not just a code.