The document discusses software engineering and the software development process. It defines software engineering as the combination of processes, tools, techniques used to develop software. Good engineered software is maintainable, reliable, efficient, user-friendly and cost effective. The major activities in software development are requirements gathering, design, implementation, and testing. The key components of a software engineering framework are quality focus, defined processes, technical methods, and tools. The software development loop involves problem definition, technical development, solution integration, and status quo. A software process provides structure and control for timely development of high quality results. The Capability Maturity Model defines 5 levels of process maturity for software organizations.
The document discusses software engineering and the software development process. It defines software engineering as the combination of processes, tools, techniques used to develop software. Good engineered software is maintainable, reliable, efficient, user-friendly and cost effective. The major activities in software development are requirements gathering, design, implementation, and testing. The key components of a software engineering framework are quality focus, defined processes, technical methods, and tools. The software development loop involves problem definition, technical development, solution integration, and status quo. A software process provides structure and control for timely development of high quality results. The Capability Maturity Model defines 5 levels of process maturity for software organizations.
The document discusses software engineering and the software development process. It defines software engineering as the combination of processes, tools, techniques used to develop software. Good engineered software is maintainable, reliable, efficient, user-friendly and cost effective. The major activities in software development are requirements gathering, design, implementation, and testing. The key components of a software engineering framework are quality focus, defined processes, technical methods, and tools. The software development loop involves problem definition, technical development, solution integration, and status quo. A software process provides structure and control for timely development of high quality results. The Capability Maturity Model defines 5 levels of process maturity for software organizations.
The document discusses software engineering and the software development process. It defines software engineering as the combination of processes, tools, techniques used to develop software. Good engineered software is maintainable, reliable, efficient, user-friendly and cost effective. The major activities in software development are requirements gathering, design, implementation, and testing. The key components of a software engineering framework are quality focus, defined processes, technical methods, and tools. The software development loop involves problem definition, technical development, solution integration, and status quo. A software process provides structure and control for timely development of high quality results. The Capability Maturity Model defines 5 levels of process maturity for software organizations.
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1 Question.1: Explain software engineering. What are the features or characteristics of good engineered software? Discuss some of the Activities involved during software development.
Answer: Software engineering is a combination of software development processes and tools
To develop software. “Software engineering is a combination of all the tools, techniques and processes that used in the development of software.” The biggest challenge for a software engineer is to develop software in a cost-effective manner and with good quality and limited time and budget. Therefore, well-engineered software has the following features. Provides the required functionality Maintainable Reliable Efficient User friendly Cost effective
Software Development Construction activities are those that are directly related to software development, e.g. assembling software requirements, designing, implementing and testing software, etc. Some of the major construction activities are listed below. Question.2: What are the key components of a software engineering Framework? Explain the steps Software development loop. Answer: The major components of this framework are described below.
Quality Focus: As we said before, the given framework is based on organizational
commitment to quality. Process: Prices are set of key process areas (KPAs) for efficient management and delivery of quality software effectively. Methods: Methods provide technical expertise to "technical methods" to perform these tasks. Tools: Tools provide automatic or semi-automated support for software processes, methods and quality control.
Software development loop:
Problem Definition: At this stage we decide what is the problem against which we are going to develop the software. Here we try to fully understand the issues and needs for software system configuration. Technical development: At this stage we try to find a solution to the problem on a technical basis and implement it on our own. This is the stage where a new system is actually developed that solves the problem described in the first stage. Solution Integration: If there are already developed systems with which our new system has to interact, then that system should also be part of our new system. All of these existing systems (languages) are integrated into our new system at our stage. Status Quo: After successfully passing the previous three steps, when we actually deploy the new system to the user site then this situation is called status .
Software Process A software process is a road map that helps you create a timely, high quality result. It is the way we produce software and it provides stability and control. Each process defines certain deliverables known as the work products. These include programs, documents, and data produced as a consequence of the software engineering activities.
Process Maturity and CMM The
Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has developed a framework to judge the process maturity level of an organization. This framework is known as the Capability Maturity Model (CMM). This framework has 5 different levels and an organization is placed into one of these 5 levels. The following figure shows the CMM framework.
These levels are briefly described as follows”
1. Level 1 – Initial: The software process is characterized as ad hoc and occasionally even chaotic. Few processes are defined, and success depends upon individual effort. By default every organization would be at level 1. 2. Level 2 – Repeatable: Basic project management processes are established to track cost, schedule, and functionality. The necessary project discipline is in place to repeat earlier successes on projects with similar applications. 3. Level 3 – Defined: The software process for both management and engineering activities is documented, standardized, and integrated into an organizational software process. All projects use a documented and approved version of the organization’s process for developing and supporting software. 4. Level 4 – Managed: Detailed measures for software process and product quality are controlled. Both the software process and products are quantitatively understood and controlled using detailed measures. 5. 5. Level 5 – Optimizing: Continuous process improvement is enabled by qualitative feedback from the process and from testing innovative ideas and technologies.
SEI has associated key process areas with each maturity level. The KPAs describe those software engineering functions that must be present to satisfy good practice at a particular level. Each KPA is described by identifying the following characteristics:
1. Goals: the overall objectives that the KPA must achieve.
2. Commitments: requirements imposed on the organization that must be met to achieve the goals or provide proof of intent to comply with the goals. 3. Abilities: those things that must be in place – organizationally and technically – to enable the organization to meet the commitments.. 4. Activities: the specific tasks required to achieve the KPA function
