SENG301-15S1 (C) Semester One 2015

Software Engineering II

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 February 2015
End Date: Sunday, 28 June 2015
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 8 March 2015
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 24 May 2015

Description

SENG301 builds on the material introduced in SENG201 (Introduction to Software Engineering) and is intended as a companion course to SENG302 (Software Engineering Group Project). The focus is on quality and how to model, measure and maintain it as project size and complexity scale up.

Learning Outcomes

  • Students who achieve a good grade in the course should be able to:
  • describe, model, and understand software engineering processes.
  • select and enact appropriate processes for particular software development environments.
  • apply a range of software engineering techniques to develop large software systems.
  • function effectively in a professional software development environment.
  • learn, use and evaluate a range of software development tools.
  • synthesise new software designs.
  • recognise and correct design flaws in software.
  • understand and model the quality of software products and processes.
  • use software metrics to understand and improve large software systems and the processes used to develop them.
  • communicate effectively, in written and oral forms, knowledge and professional opinion.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

COSC314, COSC324

Recommended Preparation

Course Coordinator

Neville Churcher

Lecturer

Moffat Mathews

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignment 20%
Practical Work Portfolios 20%
Final Exam 60%

Notes

There are several important documents available online about departmental regulations, policies and guidelines at the following site. We expect all students to be familiar with these.

Notices about this class will be posted to the class forum in the Learn system.

COSC students will also be made members of a class called “CSSE Notices”, where general notices will be posted that apply to all classes (such as information about building access or job opportunities).

Additional Course Outline Information

Grade moderation

The Computer Science department's grading policy states that in order to pass a course you must meet two requirements:
1. You must achieve an average grade of at least 50% over all assessment items.
2. You must achieve an average mark of at least 45% on invigilated assessment items.
If you satisfy both these criteria, your grade will be determined by the following University- wide scale for converting marks to grades: an average mark of 50% is sufficient for a C- grade, an average mark of 55% earns a C grade, 60% earns a B- grade and so forth. However if you do not satisfy both the passing criteria you will be given either a D or E grade depending on marks. Marks are sometimes scaled to achieve consistency between courses from year to year.

Aegrotats
If factors beyond your control (such as illness or family bereavement) prevent you from completing some item of course work (including laboratory sessions), or prevent you from giving your best, then you may be eligible for aegrotat, impaired performance consideration or an extension on the assessment. Details of these may be found in the University Calendar. Supporting evidence, such as a medical certificate, is normally required. If in doubt, talk to your lecturer.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $874.00

International fee $4,725.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 10 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Computer Science and Software Engineering .

All SENG301 Occurrences

  • SENG301-15S1 (C) Semester One 2015