Course Outline

Day 1: Process

Introduction

  • What is Systems Engineering?
  • What is Software Engineering?
  • Why is Software Engineering challenging for government?
  • System requirements
  • System modeling

Software Engineering Processes

  • What is a Software Development Process for government?
  • Traditional Processes
  • Agile Processes
  • Processes for building High-Integrity Systems for government
  • Standards & certification systems

High-Integrity Systems

  • What are High-Integrity Systems?
  • The role of Quality Management (QM) culture in government
  • Reasons for errors
  • Critical systems standard
  • Reliability engineering

Software Maintenance

Day 2: Planning

Requirements

  • User requirements for government
  • Elicitation/analysis of user requirements
  • System requirements
  • Software requirements
  • Specification of software
  • Requirements process
  • Tools to manage requirements for government

Software Design

  • Conway's Law
  • Design patterns for government
  • Textual modeling tools
  • Principles of Object-Oriented (OO) design for government
  • Design tools
  • Common architectures for government

Modeling

  • Planning an architecture for government
  • UML graphical representations
  • Non-UML graphical representations

Day 3: Code

Software Construction

  • How to take a design into code for government
  • Programming best practices for government
  • Abstraction of code for government
  • Programming workflow for government

Configuration Management

  • What is Configuration Management for government?
  • Configuration Management in ISO9000 and CMMI for government
  • CASE tools for planning, design & QA for government
  • CASE tools for writing software for government
  • Version control with SVN for government
  • System Integration for government

Code for High-Integrity Systems

  • Preventing errors in code for High-Integrity Systems for government
  • Catching errors in code for High-Integrity Systems for government
  • Reducing the impact of errors in code for High-Integrity Systems for government
  • Typical problems with code for High-Integrity Systems for government

Code quality metrics

  • Code size metrics for government
  • Code complexity metrics for government
  • Non-code metrics for government
  • Static analysis for government

Day 4: Verification & Validation

Reviews

  • Fundamentals of Verification and Validation (V&V) for government
  • Independent Verification & Validation for government
  • Design and requirement reviews for government
  • Code inspections for government
  • Software Walkthroughs for government
  • Audits for government
  • Other V&V methods for government

Testing High-Integrity Systems

  • Documents regarding safety for government
  • Scenarios for government
  • Argumentation for safety in government systems
  • Reviews of High-Integrity Systems for government
  • Predicting reliability for government
  • Formal methods for government
  • Costs of V&V for government

Automated Testing

  • Why test for government?
  • Automatic vs manual tests for government
  • Incremental testing for government
  • Types of tests for government
  • Testing tools for government
  • Test Harnesses for government

Day 5: Management

Project Management

  • What is Project Management for government?
  • Customer handover for government
  • Standards (PMP, PRINCE2) for government
  • Time management for government
  • Cost management for government
  • Risk management for government
  • Project documentation for government

Process Evaluation

  • The function of process evaluation for government
  • Acting on the metric for government
  • Process metrics for government
  • Process evaluation standards & frameworks (CMMI, ISO 9001, TickIt+) for government
  • Process evaluation meetings for government

Summary and Conclusions

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