CENTER FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

TOWSON UNIVERSITY

Curse No. AIT 624

Course Title: Software Engineering Fundamentals

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite: AIT 610

Course Description: Application of formal software engineering principles and practices to the development of information systems, application software, and embedded, computer-based systems. A comprehensive description of the software engineering process will be presented along with a discussion of the approaches, methodologies and tools available to the practicing software engineer.

Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course student should be able:

q to develop a sense of how the software engineering discipline fits into the overall system development process;

q to identify specific products, interfaces, and responsibilities of contributing disciplines and organizations;

q to develop, verify and analyze requirement specifications for a large software system; and

q to employ formal techniques in developing software systems.