Software Engineering Group Practical (U03486)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : INF-4-SEGP

This practical exercise involves rich client programming on the Eclipse extensible development platform. Students will collaborate to produce a plug-in for Eclipse which can be used to analyse models expressed in the UML modelling language.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Successful completion of Year 3 of an Informatics Single or Combined Honours Degree, or equivalent by permission of the School.

? Prohibited combinations : This group practical course cannot be taken together with any other group practical course.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Software Engineering, (School of Informatics, Schedule O)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 4th year

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
27/09/2006	09:00	09:50	Lecture Room 712, Darwin Building + Outhouses	KB

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Wednesday	09:00	09:50	KB

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students on the course will:

- Design using the rich-client design paradigm, including code-generation frameworks and modelling frameworks.
- Apply meta-models in modelling and program generation.
- Implement software in Java which adds to a rich-client application.
- Work as a team in a collaborative, shared software development with intermediate and working versions of software shared by the CVS version control system.
- Follow best practice in using source code archives and log files to record progress in software development.