Course content

Software process types, software project management and planning with a focus on agile processes, group processes, group coordination, communication with users and customers, software process implementation, software evolution and maintenance, software reuse, software engineering professionalism and ethics, software quality and process improvement, software verification and testing, software architecture.

Learning outcome

• Knowledge: The students will demonstrate basic knowledge about main software engineering concepts as described in course content.

• Skills: The students will demonstrate that they are able to plan and manage small software engineering projects using agile methods such as Scrum and XP (extreme programming), and how to contribute to project teams as programmers, testers, managers, designers, documenters, architects etc.

• General competence: The students will demonstrate understanding of software engineering as a profession and will show that they are able to reflect on their own role. The students will be able to understand and reason about complex software engineering projects and the associated technical and organizational issues.

Learning methods and activities

The main activity in the course will be a mandatory agile software development project using Scrum and XP, with several mandatory group-based deliverables, demos and presentations. We will also have lectures by the teachers and others.

Compulsory assignments

• Exercises

Recommended previous knowledge

Subjects TDT4100 Object-Oriented Programming and IT1901 Informatics Project I, or equivalent.

Course materials

Books and articles will be given at the start of the course.

Credit reductions