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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Engineering : School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

433-252 Software Development Principles and Tools

Note:

Credit may not be gained for both 433-252 Software Development Principles and Tools and 433-244 Software Development.

Credit Points:

When taken from School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering:
7.1
When taken from Computer Science, Faculty of Science:
6.25

Coordinator:

Dr T.Y. Chen

Prerequisite/s:

433-142 (From 1998: 433-142 or 433-161 + 433-162)

Timetable:

Semester 1 and 2

Contact:

19 lectures, 20 lab class hours

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should: be prepared for participation in teams for creating medium-sized programs; be familiar with the principles applying to team programming and programming-in-the-large; be able to use some of the tools that support implementation of these principles.

Content:

Overview of the software development life-cycle. Command languages. Modularity, compilation environments, code libraries. Version control and configuration management. Programming for reliability. Standard testing and debugging techniques. Profiling and simple code improvement techniques.

Assessment:

A 2-hour practical examination during the semester, and a 2-hour written examination at the end of the subject. Weighting of assessment components will be made known at the start of the subject.
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