FI:PA102 Software Engineering I - Course Information

PA102 Software Engineering I

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Král, DrSc. (lecturer)
RNDr. Jaroslav Ráček, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. RNDr. Luděk Matyska, CSc.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics

Timetable

Tue 10:00–13:50 D3

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Applied Informatics (programme FI, N-AP)
• Information Technology Security (programme FI, N-IN)
• Bioinformatics (programme FI, N-AP)
• Information Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Informatics (eng.) (programme FI, D-IN4)
• Informatics (programme FI, D-IN4)
• Parallel and Distributed Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Graphics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Networks and Communication (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Systems and Technologies (eng.) (programme FI, D-IN4)
• Computer Systems and Technologies (programme FI, D-IN4)
• Computer Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Embedded Systems (eng.) (programme FI, N-IN)
• Embedded Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Service Science, Management and Engineering (eng.) (programme FI, N-AP)
• Service Science, Management and Engineering (programme FI, N-AP)
• Social Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Theoretical Informatics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, N-SS) (2)
• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (programme FI, N-IN)
• Image Processing (programme FI, N-AP)

Course objectives

At the end of the course students should be able to:
understand and explain software engineering approached in managing work on large projects;
understand and explain problems of measuring effects of information technologies.
make reasoned decisions about the benefits of information technologies;
make reasoned decisions about the support of administration and management in the software life-cyccle, together with related social and ergonomical issues.

Syllabus

• Informaion systems, gobalization, and information society.
• The structure of information systems.
• Social issues.
• Software architectures of information systems.
• Operation information systems and management information systems.
• Service orientation.
• Technologies of global information systems.
• Software confederations.
• XML in service orinted information systems.
• Waterfall method, customization and distribution of effort between developmnet phases.
• Iteration and inccrements.
• Ergonomy issues.
• How to measure the effects of information technologies.
• Main reasons of software projects failures.
• Steps before the project agreement is signed.
• Negotiation and requirements specification techniques.
• Risk management and its software support.
• Basics of team work.
• Late stages of software development in brief.

Literature

• CASE systémy a monografie o SW inženýrství / CASE systems and SW engineering monographs
• KRÁL, Jaroslav. Informační systémy :specifikace, realizace, provoz. 1. vyd. Veletiny: Science, 1998, 358 s. ISBN 80-86083-00-4. info

Teaching methods

Lectures.

Assessment methods

Written final exam. Correctional exams can also be oral.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2011, recent)
  
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