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Course Outline
Day 1: Process
Introduction
- Understanding Systems Engineering
- Understanding Software Engineering
- Challenges in Software Engineering
- System requirements
- System modeling
Software Engineering Processes
- Definition of a Software Development Process
- Traditional Processes
- Agile Processes
- Processes for building High-Integrity Systems
- Standards & certification systems
High-Integrity Systems
- Characteristics of High-Integrity Systems
- The role of Quality Management (QM) culture
- Root causes of errors
- Standards for critical systems
- Reliability engineering
Software Maintenance
Day 2: Planning
Requirements
- User requirements
- Elicitation and analysis of user requirements
- System requirements
- Software requirements
- Specification of software
- Requirements process
- Tools for managing requirements
Software Design
- Conway's Law
- Design patterns
- Textual modeling tools
- Principles of Object-Oriented (OO) design
- Design tools
- Common architectures
Modeling
- Planning an architecture
- UML graphical representations
- Non-UML graphical representations
Day 3: Code
Software Construction
- Translating design into code
- Programming best practices
- Abstraction of code
- Programming workflow
Configuration Management
- Definition of Configuration Management
- Configuration Management in ISO9000 and CMMI
- CASE tools for planning, design & QA
- CASE tools for software development
- Version control with SVN
- System Integration
Code for High-Integrity Systems
- Error prevention strategies
- Error detection techniques
- Minimizing the impact of errors
- Common challenges with code for High-Integrity Systems
Code quality metrics
- Code size metrics
- Code complexity metrics
- Non-code metrics
- Static analysis
Day 4: Verification & Validation
Reviews
- Fundamentals of V&V
- Independent Verification & Validation
- Design and requirement reviews
- Code inspections
- Software Walkthroughs
- Audits
- Other V&V methods
Testing High-Integrity Systems
- Safety documentation
- Scenarios
- Safety argumentation
- Reviews of High-Integrity Systems
- Reliability prediction
- Formal methods
- Costs of V&V
Automated Testing
- Importance of testing
- Automatic vs manual tests
- Incremental testing
- Types of tests
- Testing tools
- Test Harnesses
Day 5: Management
Project Management
- Definition of Project Management
- Customer handover
- Standards (PMP, PRINCE2)
- Time management
- Cost management
- Risk management
- Project documentation
Process Evaluation
- The function of process evaluation
- Acting on metrics
- Process metrics
- Process evaluation standards & frameworks (CMMI, ISO 9001, TickIt+)
- Process evaluation meetings
Summary and Conclusions
35 Hours
Custom Corporate Training
Training solutions designed exclusively for businesses.
- Customized Content: We adapt the syllabus and practical exercises to the real goals and needs of your project.
- Flexible Schedule: Dates and times adapted to your team's agenda.
- Format: Online (live), In-company (at your offices), or Hybrid.
Price per private group, online live training, starting from 6500 € + VAT*
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Testimonials (2)
Everything was built up from a basic level while progressing quick enough to prevent anyone getting bored.
Nathan Roberts
Course - Software Engineering
The level of inter activeness and pace meant that it was never boring.
