Undergraduate Course: Software Engineering Large Practical (INFR09039)

Course Outline
School	School of Informatics	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	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.
Course description	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

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations	Students MUST NOT also be taking Computer Science Large Practical (INFR09040) OR AI Large Practical (INFR09018) Students MUST NOT also be taking Informatics Research Proposal (INFR11071)	Other requirements	This course is open to all undergraduate Informatics students including those on joint degrees. For external students where this course is not listed in your DPT, please seek special permission from the course organiser. Students are assumed to have competence in design, programming, debugging, documentation and programming in Java.

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 8, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 90 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	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. You should expect to spend approximately 70 hours on the coursework for this course.
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

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.