FIT3170 · Software engineering practice

Overview

In this unit, you will undertake a full-year software development project in a self-managing team. You will apply the skills they learned in prerequisite and co-requisite units to a larger project than any they have encountered to date. Through attempting larger-scale software development you will learn how the techniques you have encountered in isolation work together as an integrated methodology to make such complex projects feasible. The project will be managed through a heavyweight process model such as the Spiral Model, to ensure you are exposed to a representative example of both heavyweight and lightweight processes (which are covered in FIT2101) through the BSE core. For the first time in your degrees, you will solicit and document requirements from client proxies who are not IT professionals. This builds your communication skills with other stakeholders in preparation for the industry-based project or IBL.

Areas of study: Software engineering

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Describe industry-standard team-based project management methodologies and apply them across a multi-functional team to achieve optimal project progress
2. Apply soft skills when engaging stakeholders in a consistent and professional manner to determine functional and non-functional requirements
3. Plan and manage the full range of activities in a software engineering project in accordance with the development methodology
4. Compare and analyse appropriate industry-standard technologies to determine the optimal combination of software required to support project development
5. Assess aspects of quality assurance that are relevant to the context of the project, and evaluate strategies for ensuring quality standards are met for end users
6. Deliberate professional issues occurring within the development and deployment of software applications, and identify appropriate actions based on human factors, relevant law and industry codes of ethical behaviour.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled online and face to face learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated reading and preparation for scheduled teaching activities.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.