Overview
In this unit you will learn both theoretical and practical aspects of software engineering. The theory will focus on software processes, requirements engineering, modelling, architectural design, object-oriented design, software development methodology, testing, and quality assurance. You will also be introduced to the principles of software re-use, software evolution and configuration management. You will develop multi-tiered software application having presentation, application and data persistence tiers. You will also learn test-driven software application development using appropriate tools, thus building solid foundations for software development.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisites: (COIT11134 and COIT11237) OR (COIT11134 and COIT12167).
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2022
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student feedback
Lack of focus on the MVP pattern. All three assessments are based around MVP but the topic is not taught clearly and in-depth.
Add more materials about the theoretical descriptions of MVP in-depth and relevant practical programming exercises and examples.
Feedback from Student feedback
The unit concepts were a little outdated and this unit uses the old standard toolkit, Java swing.
Revise the unit content and use the recent standard toolkits such as JavaFX for Java programs.
Feedback from Self-reflection
MySQL Server is a popular open-source DBMS for application development. Proficiency in MYSQL will enhance students job-ready skills.
Replace JavaDB with MySQL and provide supporting resources to download, install and use.
- Prepare software requirements specification following requirements engineering
- Apply modelling techniques to document architectural and system models as per the requirements specification
- Design and implement a multi-tiered software application consisting of presentation, application and data persistence tiers.
- Conduct test-driven development, validation and verification testing
- Discuss quality management in a range of different design and development scenarios
- Work independently and collaboratively in small teams.
Australian Computer Society (ACS) recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA is a widely used and consistent definition of ICT skills. SFIA is increasingly being used when developing job descriptions and role profiles. ACS members can use the tool MySFIA to build a skills profile at
https://www.acs.org.au/professionalrecognition/mysfia-b2c.html.
This unit contributes to the following workplace skills as defined by SFIA 7. The SFIA code is included:
Requirements Definition and management (REQM)
User Experience Analysis (UNAN)
Software Design (SWDN)
System Integration and Build (SINT
Programming/Software Development (PROG)
Database Design (DBDS)
Testing (TEST)
Quality assurance(QUAS)
Quality management (QUMG).
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
1 - Practical and Written Assessment - 25% | ||||||
2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 35% | ||||||
3 - Project (applied) - 40% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
1 - Communication | ||||||
2 - Problem Solving | ||||||
3 - Critical Thinking | ||||||
4 - Information Literacy | ||||||
5 - Team Work | ||||||
6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||||
7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||||
8 - Ethical practice | ||||||
9 - Social Innovation | ||||||
10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures |
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
1 - Practical and Written Assessment - 25% | ||||||||||
2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 35% | ||||||||||
3 - Project (applied) - 40% |
Textbooks
Software Engineering Global Edition (10e)
Edition: 10 (2015)
Authors: Ian Sommerville
Pearson Education Limited
Harlow Harlow , United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781292096131
Binding: Paperback
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.8 or later
- Violet Uml editor 2.1.0 or later
- JavaFX Scene Builder 2.0 or later
- MySQL Database Server 8.0.21 or later
- NetBeans IDE8.2 or a higher version
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
m.li@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Introduction and Software Processes
Chapter
Chapters 1 and 2
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Requirements engineering
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Chapter 4
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System modelling
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Chapter 5
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Architectural design
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Chapter 6
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Design and Implementation
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Chapter 7
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Agile software development
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Chapter 3
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Software testing
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Chapter 8
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Software evolution and Software Reuse
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Chapters 9 and 11
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Quality management
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Chapter 24
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Configuration management
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Chapter 25
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Dependable systems
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Chapter 10
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Security engineering
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Chapter 13
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Unit Coordinator: Dr. Michael Li
School of Engineering and Technology, CQUniversity
North Rockhampton, QLD4702, Australia
Phone:+61 7 49306337
Email: m.li@cqu.edu.au
1 Practical and Written Assessment
You will demonstrate your ability in applying the principles of requirement engineering by eliciting the functional and non-functional requirements, documenting requirements specification, modelling the system and designing the system architecture and implementation. In this assignment task, you will be using the topics learned in Weeks 1-4. Complete details are in the Assignment 1 Specification document available from the Unit website.
Week 5 Friday (8 Apr 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 7 Friday (29 Apr 2022)
This is an individual assignment and contributes to 25% of the total marks.
- Apply software design and development principles.
- Complete appropriate documentation for requirements, system modelling, and design, software implementation.
- Illustrate a detailed design for a layered information system using appropriate design methods.
- Prepare software requirements specification following requirements engineering
- Apply modelling techniques to document architectural and system models as per the requirements specification
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
2 Practical and Written Assessment
In this assignment, you are required to develop, debug, and test a software application having a three-layered architecture with a front-end graphical user interface(GUI), middle layer implementing the business logic and a back-end to persist the data. You will also be documenting a test plan to systematically test the developed application and a quality plan retrospectively prepared to demonstrate how you would have commenced the application development with a quality plan in place to deliver a system meeting the quality requirements. You will be using the topics learned in weeks 1-9 in this assignment. Complete task details are in the Assignment 2 Specification document available from the Unit website.
Week 10 Friday (20 May 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 12 Friday (3 June 2022)
This is an individual assignment and contributes to 35% of the total marks.
- Analyze the given problem and design a three-tier software application by following the software development principle.
- Complete appropriate documentation for requirements, system modeling, design, and software implementation.
- Implement the designed system including the graphical user interface, business logic and database objects.
- Rigorous testing of software applications.
- Use quality management in the development processes.
- Design and implement a multi-tiered software application consisting of presentation, application and data persistence tiers.
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Technology Competence
3 Project (applied)
You will demonstrate your ability to analyze a given case study, develop requirement specification and a quality plan to implement a three-tiered software application. You will document both system and user requirements, system architecture, and detailed design of the system. In this project, working in a small team, you should use revision control to merge components developed by team members, and apply test tools to conduct testing as per the developed test plan. Your software application will have a front-end graphical user interface(GUI), a business logic layer, and a data persistence layer.
Review/Exam Week Friday (10 June 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
Exam Week Friday (17 June 2022)
This is a paired work and contributes to 40% of the total marks. You are required to complete the project in pairs.
- Analyze the given problem and design a three-tier software application by following the software development principle.
- Complete appropriate documentation for requirements, system modelling, design, and software implementation.
- Implement the designed system including the graphical user interface, business logic and database objects.
- Rigorous testing of software applications.
- Use quality management in the development processes.
- Prepare software requirements specification following requirements engineering
- Apply modelling techniques to document architectural and system models as per the requirements specification
- Design and implement a multi-tiered software application consisting of presentation, application and data persistence tiers.
- Conduct test-driven development, validation and verification testing
- Discuss quality management in a range of different design and development scenarios
- Work independently and collaboratively in small teams.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.