Course Plan

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IS424 – Information Systems Engineering
Course Objectives:
By the end of this course, the students should be able to:
  • Covers Software Testing.
  • Maintain the software information systems.
  • Recognize the software quality assurance.
  • Recognize the technical metrics for software.
  • Deal with software developing methodologies.
  • Manage the software configuration.

Course Content:
  1. Introduction to software engineering.
  2. Software testing and user acceptance testing.
  3. Software evolution and processes of maintaining the software information systems.
  4. Software quality assurance, quality standards, the ISO quality factors.
  5. Technical metrics for software and examples of function-based, specification quality, testing metrics, technical metrics for software sizing, object-oriented systems metrics.
  6. Software Processes.
  7. Software development methodologies.
  8. Requirement engineering
  9. Configuration management.

Course Grading:
Index
 The nature of evaluation
 Week No.
 Weight %
1
 First Exam
 Week 7
 20 %
2
 Second Exam
 Week 12
 20 %
3
 Assignments and Quizes
 Week 5 & 10
 10 %
4
 Final Exam
 After week 15
 50 %
Total
 100%

Learning resources:
  • "SOFTWARE ENGINEERING", by Ian Sommerville, the International Computer Science Series, the Latest Edition (9th).

Course Policies:

Attendance:
  • If student have late attendance by 10 minutes, she will be supposed as late for that lecture.

Submission Late Work:
Course work (project, assignments, or other work) submitted after the stated deadline will not receive any credit for that work.

Cheating:
copying, and other forms of cheating can result an immediate BIG ZERO of the work.

Making Up Missed Exam :
Students are expected to be present for quizzes and the final exam

  • If student could not attend an exam, there will be a makeup exam for only student with acceptable excuse .
  • Absent student have only one week after missing exam to provide her excuse to the teacher.