17-614 Engineering Software Intensive Systems

Units: 12.0 Department: Software Engineering Special permission: Yes Objective: This course will prepare software developers to understand macroscopic issues that affect overall system viability and to recognize their impact on more localized software-engineering decisions. In addition, students will gain skills critical on career paths that encompass responsibility for engineering complete software-intensive systems. Topics 1.The relationship between software engineering and systems engineering; system concepts and their relation to software; system life cycle models 2.Decision making and mathematical system-performance modeling 3.System economics, the business considerations of software-intensive projects, including economic analyses that lead to optimal solutions 4.System "-ity's" - security, reliability,) maintainability, availability, supportability, and "usability (Human Factors)" 5.The relationship between system and software architectures, emphasizing system-partitioning criteria and strategies. Architectures discussed will include domain-specific and newly emerging ones, such as DoD's Advanced Distributed Learning architecture and Microsoft's .NET architecture and Application Service Provider (ASP) architecture. 6.System analysis, requirements analysis, and system design. Students will conduct a functional analysis of a selected system, specifying use-cases, interaction diagrams, and threads through an OO software design. 7.System-level test and evaluation; focusing beyond software testing. 8.Management of systems engineering, covering the Systems Engineering Management (SEMP) and Software Project Management (SPMP) plans. 9.Systems culture, including systems-oriented professional organizations, system-level standards, and system-level capability maturity. Students will also complete two projects: individually - generating selected portions of an SEMP and, collaborating with a remote partner solely through the Internet - producing a different SE

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Spring 2005 times

Sec	Time	Day	Instructor	Location
A	9:00 - 10:20 am	T	Harbaugh	NSH 1305
		R	Harbaugh	NSH 1305