Overview

Indicative content includes:

• Complementary views of the Software Development Lifecycle, such as Waterfall, Double-Diamond, Agile, SCRUM.
• Methods of generating and managing the, often complex, list of requirements for any sizable software engineering project.
• ‘Full-stack’ developers, specialist developers, DevOps, Operations, and their roles in developing and maintaining software systems.
• Source Code Management (SCM) concepts, objects, and processes. Comparing and contrasting the centralised and de-centralised models of SCM tools.
• Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) forms of the development process and how these are supported by other parts of the lifecycle, other tools and processes.
• Traditional and semantic versions practices, demonstrating the strengths and weaknesses of each.
• Strong quality control in software engineering, the practice of managing quality records and the surrounding issues.
• Traditional application environments, enterprise environments, cloud environments and their impact on software engineering.
• Release strategies and processes and their consequences on quality, customers, and the product.

Learning Outcomes

• Appreciate the core concepts of the Software Engineering discipline.

• Associate elements of the Software Development Lifecycle with the appropriate project management and software engineering theory.

• Describe different methods to create, categorise, and store software requirements.

• Evaluate and select appropriate release and delivery strategies according to project requirements.

• Understand the various objects, processes, and strategies involved in Source Control Management and their implementation in contemporary software products.