CS5030: Software Engineering Principles

This module is offered in 2025-26.

Aims

The aims of this module are:

To give a broad overview of the software lifecycle and the development process.
To provide students with an understanding of how software engineering helps to manage software development within a division of labour.

On successful completion of this module, the student should be able to:

Identify the key concerns that are common to all software development processes.
Select appropriate process models, approaches and techniques to manage a given software development process and justify the choices.
Elicit requirements for a software product and translate these into documented architecture and software design.
Discuss ethics, sustainability and dependability issues that affect a given software product.
Describe the role that testing and reuse play in the software lifecycle.

Software lifecycle and processes, including plan-driven, agile and DevOps
Ethics and sustainability in software engineering
Requirements engineering
Software architecture and design
Modelling with UML: use cases, structure and behaviour
Quality assurance including dependability and software testing
Software evolution and reuse
Professional software engineering: collaborative development and project management

This module has no compulsory elements beyond those common to all modules (mark of 4 in each assessment component).