433-252 Software Development Principles and Tools

Note

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

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

433-142 or 433-162

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

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

Topics covered include: 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

One practical examination not exceeding three-hours during the semester, and a written examination not exceeding three-hours at the end of the subject. Weighting of assessment components will be made known at the start of the subject