The course deals with fundamental aspects of the systematically development of huge software systems. The course covers topics such as:

• software developing process models
• methods and tools for the development phases: requirements analysis, system specification, system design, programming and testing.

Learning objectives:

Students

• are familiar with the concepts and principles of software engineering and can discuss it,
• know common software development process models and their strengths and weaknesses and can discuss it,
• know methods for requirements analysis and can use it and can model and evaluate use case models,
• know models for systems structuring and controling as well as architecture principles of software systems and can discuss it.
• can model and evaluate component diagrams
• are familiar with basic concepts of software quality management and are able to apply software test and evaluation methods in concrete situations.

Workload:

• Lecture 30h
• Exercise 15h
• Preparation of lecture 24h
• Preparation of exercises 25h
• Exam preparation 40h
• Exam 1h 

• H. Balzert. Lehrbuch der Software-Technik. Spektrum Verlag 2008.
• I. Sommerville. Software Engineering. Pearson Studium 2012.

Weitere Literatur wird in der Vorlesung bekannt gegeben.