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COURSE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION


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Course Name
Code
Semester
Theory
(hour/week)
Application/Lab
(hour/week)
Local Credits
ECTS
Fall/Spring
Prerequisites
None
Course Language
Course Type
Elective
Course Level
-
Mode of Delivery -
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
Assistant(s) -
Course Objectives
Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • To have a solid background knowledge about software maintenance process.
  • To understand coherent and comprehensive coverage of software change concepts.
  • To have a theoretical base for the skills required to effect, control and manage changes in software systems.
  • Be able to apply current maintenance techniques and methods to solve software problems.
Course Description

 



Course Category

Core Courses
X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

 

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week Subjects Required Materials
1 Introduction, IEEE Std 1219
2 The context of maintenance, introduction to the basic concepts Grubb and Takang, ch.1
3 The maintenance framework. Grubb and Takang, ch.2, Pressman, ch. 29
4 Software change Grubb and Takang, ch.3
5 Limitations and economic implications to software change Grubb and Takang, ch.4
6 Maintenance process Grubb and Takang, ch.5, ISO/IEC 14764
7 Overview
8 Midterm exam
9 Program understanding Grubb and Takang, ch.6
10 Reverse engineering Grubb and Takang, ch.7
11 Reverse engineering Grubb and Takang, ch.7
12 Reuse and resuability Grubb and Takang, ch.8
13 Reuse and reusability Grubb and Takang, ch.8
14 Management and organizational issues Grubb and Takang, ch.10
15 General Evaluation
16 Review of the Semester  
Course Notes/Textbooks Grubb and Takang, Software Maintenance Concepts and Practice, 2e, World Scientific, 2003.
Suggested Readings/Materials Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9e, AddisonWesley, 2011. * Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioners Approach, 7e, McGrawHill, 2010. * SWEBOK, Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge: 2004, IEEE. * April, Abran & Dumke, What do you need to know about Software Maintenance?, Maintenance and assest management, 2005, vol. 20, no 2, pp. 3237. * Lanubile and Visaggio, Iterative Reengineering to compensate for QuickFix Maintenance, IEEE, 1995, International Conference on Software Maintenance, pp.140146. * Canfora and Cimitile, Software Maintenance, 2000, http://www.compaid.com/caiInternet/ezine/maintenancecanfora.pdf.* Jones, The Economics of Software Maintenance in the Twenty First Century, 2006.

 

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities Number Weigthing
Participation
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
1
20
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterm
1
30
Final Exam
1
50
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
50
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
50
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities Number Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours
(Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
16
3
48
Laboratory / Application Hours
(Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
16
Study Hours Out of Class
15
3
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
1
5
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterms
1
7
Final Exams
1
15
    Total
120

 

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#
Program Competencies/Outcomes
* Contribution Level
1
2
3
4
5
1 Be able to define problems in real life by identifying functional and nonfunctional requirements that the software is to execute X
2 Be able to design and analyze software at component, subsystem, and software architecture level X
3 Be able to develop software by coding, verifying, doing unit testing and debugging X
4 Be able to verify software by testing its behaviour, execution conditions, and expected results X
5 Be able to maintain software due to working environment changes, new user demands and the emergence of software errors that occur during operation X
6 Be able to monitor and control changes in the software, the integration of software with other software systems, and plan to release software versions systematically X
7 To have knowledge in the area of software requirements understanding, process planning, output specification, resource planning, risk management and quality planning
X
8 Be able to identify, evaluate, measure and manage changes in software development by applying software engineering processes X
9 Be able to use various tools and methods to do the software requirements, design, development, testing and maintenance X
10 To have knowledge of basic quality metrics, software life cycle processes, software quality, quality model characteristics, and be able to use them to develop, verify and test software X
11 To have knowledge in other disciplines that have common boundaries with software engineering such as computer engineering, management, mathematics, project management, quality management, software ergonomics and systems engineering X
12 Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics, and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering X
13

Be able to use a foreign language to follow related field publications and communicate with colleagues

X

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest

 

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