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Unit Synopsis
This unit aims to teach you both theoretical and practical aspects of software engineering which involves specification, development, management and evolution of software systems. Theory will focus on software processes, requirements engineering, system models and modelling, robustness analysis, architectural design, object-oriented design, and software development methodology. The theoretical and practical aspects of software testing, software evolution, and quality management including quality assurance, and quality control are also discussed. You will also be introduced to the principles of software evolution and configuration management. This unit has a strong practical focus and the theoretical aspects are reinforced with practical work. The software engineering life cycle support functionality provided by modern software development environments is also addressed.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 9 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisites: COIT20247 Database Design and Development, COIT20256 Data Structures and Algorithms, and COIT20248 Information Systems Analysis and Design Anti-requisites: COIT20226 Software Design and Implementation 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). |
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| Residential School | No Residential School |
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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 Postgraduate 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.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Practical Assessment | 20% |
| 2. Practical Assessment | 30% |
| 3. Examination | 50% |
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%).
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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.
Source: Student Unit Evaluation
This Unit is commented for the useful learning materials, and useful knowledge and skills.
Continue with the current topics and materials.
Current topics were continued.
Source: Unit Coordinators' Reflection
While students are using Git in assessment 3, the learning curve is high especially for collaborative projects.
Introducing Git in the Assessment 2 of the unit will give students early hands-on experience, reducing the learning curve and enhancing their effectiveness in collaborative group work for the Assessment 3 of the unit.
In Progress
Source: Reflection of Head of Course
Marking criteria for assessment 3 is very prescriptive, which may reduce students' desire to develop novel solutions for open-ended, complex problems.
Introduce rubrics for assessments that allow for different solutions amongst students and groups.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Apply the principles of software design
- Propose appropriate software management processes for a software engineering project
- Employ Unified Modeling Language (UML) and design patterns in the design and documentation of software systems
- Critique design alternatives and development methods available to a software developer
- Design, develop, and test non-distributed, three layered software applications
- Exploit the software engineering life cycle support functionality provided by modern software development environments.
Australian Computer Society (ACS) recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA is in use in over 100 countries and provides 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:
- Systems Design (DESN)
- System Integration (SINT)
- Programming/Software Development (PROG)
- Data Analysis (DTAN)
- Database/Repository Design (DBDS)
- Testing (TEST)
- Applications Support (ASUP)
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| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | • | • | • | • |
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