Undergraduate Course: Software Engineering Large Practical (INFR09039)
Course Outline
| School | School of Informatics |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Informatics |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The Software Engineering Large Practical exposes students to the problems that arise with the design and implementation of large scale software systems, and to methods of coping with such problems. Students will gain experience in how to:
* Design clearly and coherently structured systems
* Choose the appropriate means of implementation
* Discover and use relevant information
* Schedule their work load
* Present their work in a clear and concise way. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | Students MUST NOT also be taking
Computer Science Large Practical (INFR09040) OR
AI Large Practical (INFR09018)
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Other requirements | Successful completion of Year 2 of an Informatics Single or Combined Degree, or equivalent by permission of the School. Students are assumed to have competence in design, programming, debugging, documentation and programming in Java. |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
- Describe the design and development process, and be able to relate this process to their own experience.
- Plan to manage complex systems with competing requirements.
- Consider and compare possible structures for a design.
- Read technical papers and extract relevant content.
- Plan to manage their time and resources in completing a large project.
- Implement and debug a software system of medium to large size
- Write clear and concise documentation.
- Analyse the performance of a system. |
Assessment Information
Assessed Assignments 100
One large design and implementation project, assessed in two parts. The first part consists of exercises to help students gain familiarity with a provided base system, relevant libraries and underlying algorithms. In the second part, an application of the base system is presented to the students. Students must refine the application specification, propose and implement a design, and test their implementation. Students submit both their implementation and a report that presents and analyses their specification, design, implementation and tests.
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
This project gives students experience in developing a non-trivial software system and providing some analysis of its behaviour. In particular the student gains practical experience of:
* Design: ensuring the requirement is well scoped and defined and constructing a design at a level of detail that allows some prediction of the behaviour of the system without committing to implementation detail.
* Implementation: implementing and testing a working prototype of the design.
* Analysis: providing some analysis of the characteristics of the design.
Relevant QAA Computing Curriculum Sections: Computer Based Systems, Software Engineering, Systems Analysis and Design, Professionalism
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
Lectures 8
Tutorials 0
Timetabled Laboratories 0
Non-timetabled assessed assignments 70
Private Study/Other 22
Total 100
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Vijayanand Nagarajan
Tel: (0131 6)51 3440
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Course secretary | Mrs Victoria Swann
Tel: (0131 6)51 7607
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