ESOF 487

Senior Design Project II

2 Cr. (Hrs.:6 Lab)

This two semester sequence is the capstone course of a Software Engineering degree. Students will work in teams of two to five under the direction of the instructor to either develop or re-engineer a complex software product. Each team will go through all of the steps of a software development process. Each team will develop a Software Requirements Specification, a Software Development Plan, a Software Design Description, a Software Test Plan/Report and any other documents required for their products. Each team will prepare a campus presentation on their project.


Prerequisite: ESOF 486 (Senior Design Project I)
Corequisite: ESOF 411 (Software Validation and Verification).
(2nd)

ESOF 486 and 487 must be taken in sequence.

Expectations:

E1. The student must have good knowledge of programming (from CSCI 136 and CSCI 332), algorithm design and analysis (from CSCI 232, CSCI 332 and ESOF 427), databases (from CSCI 340 or BMIS 375, and CSCI 440) and software engineering (from ESOF 322, ESOF 326, ESOF 328 and COMX 338).

E2. The student should be able to write software development documents: a Software Requirements Specification (from ESOF 328), a Software Design Description and a Software Test Plan/Report (from ESOF 326 or ESOF 411).

E3. The student should be able to quickly learn to use a high level programming language necessary for the assigned project.

Course Outcomes:

R1. Will have demonstrated the ability to work effectively in a team setting on a multi-programmer, multi-month and multi-phase software project. (SE: 1, 2, 3)

R2. Will be able to create a new product from scratch or extensively modify an existing product and will have demonstrated the ability to learn new technologies independently and/or the ability to apply technologies previously learned to new situations. (SE: 1, 2, 3)

R3. Will be able to describe what their team accomplished on their project. (SE: 3)

R4. Will have demonstrated the ability to use a software development plan to successfully complete a multi-programmer, multi-month and multi-phase software development project, and to be able to apply quantitative measures in assessing progress toward the on-time, high-quality completion of a software development project. (SE: 2)

R5. Will have demonstrated the ability to describe a system/module design by creating or extensively modifying a software design description. (SE: 1, 2)

R6. Will have demonstrated the ability to follow a software test plan and to report on the results.

R7. Will have demonstrated the ability to rigorously inspect or review all of the documents used in their project. (SE: 1)

R8. Will have demonstrated a working knowledge of software version and change management control. (SE: 1)

R9. Will have demonstrated a working knowledge of all the software development tools used in the development of the project's product. (SE: 1)

R10. Will have completed and demonstrated a nontrivial project.

SE:
III-1-2-1 - Computing fundamentals, software design and construction, requirements analysis, security, verification, and validation
III-1-2-2 - Software engineering processes and tools appropriate for the development of complex software systems