Chapter 7:
Software Engineering
Computer Science: An Overview
Tenth Edition
by
J. Glenn Brookshear
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Chapter 7: Software Engineering
• 7.1 The Software Engineering Discipline
• 7.2 The Software Life Cycle
• 7.3 Software Engineering Methodologies
• 7.4 Modularity
• 7.5 Tools of the Trade
• 7.6 Testing
• 7.7 Documentation
• 7.8 Software Ownership and Liability
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The Software Engineering
Discipline
• Distinct from other engineering fields
– Prefabricated components
– Metrics
• Practitioners versus Theoreticians
• Professional Organizations: ACM, IEEE,
etc.
– Codes of professional ethics
– Standards
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Computer Aided Software
Engineering (CASE) tools
• Project planning
• Project management
• Documentation
• Prototyping and simulation
• Interface design
• Programming
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Figure 7.1 The software life cycle
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Figure 7.2 The development phase of
the software life cycle
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Analysis Stage
• Requirements
– Application oriented
• Specifications
– Technically oriented
• Software requirements document
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Design Stage
• Methodologies and tools (discussed later)
• Human interface (psychology and
ergonomics)
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Implementation Stage
• Create system from design
– Write programs
– Create data files
– Develop databases
• Role of “software analyst” versus
“programmer”
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Testing Stage
• Validation testing
– Confirm that system meets specifications
• Defect testing
– Find bugs
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Software Engineering
Methodologies
• Waterfall Model
• Incremental Model
– Prototyping (Evolutionary vs. Throwaway)
• Open-source Development
• Extreme Programming
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Modularity
• Procedures -- Imperative paradigm
– Structure charts
• Objects -- Object-oriented paradigm
– Collaboration diagrams
• Components -- Component architecture
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Figure 7.3 A simple structure chart
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Figure 7.4 The structure of
PlayerClass and its instances
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Figure 7.5 The interaction between
objects resulting from PlayerA’s
serve
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Figure 7.6 A structure chart
including data coupling
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Coupling versus Cohesion
• Coupling
– Control coupling
– Data coupling
• Cohesion
– Logical cohesion
– Functional cohesion
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Figure 7.7 Logical and functional
cohesion within an object
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Tools of the Trade
• Data Flow Diagram
• Entity-Relationship Diagram
– One-to-one relation
– One-to-many relation
– Many-to-many relation
• Data Dictionary
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Figure 7.8 A simple dataflow diagram
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Figure 7.9 A simple use case diagram
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Figure 7.10 A simple class diagram
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Unified Modeling Language
• Use Case Diagram
– Use cases
– Actors
• Class Diagram
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Figure 7.11 One-to-one, one-to-many, and
many-to-many relationships between
entities of types X and Y
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Figure 7.12 A class diagram
depicting generalizations
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Figure 7.13 A sequence diagram
depicting a generic volley
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Structured Walkthoughs
• “Theatrical” experiment
• Class-responsibility-collaboration cards
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Design Patterns
• Well designed “templates” for solving recurring
problems
• Examples:
– Adapter pattern: Used to adapter a module’s interface
to current needs
– Decorator pattern: Used to control the complexity
involved when many different combinations of the
same activities are required
• Inspired by the work of Christopher Alexander in
architecture
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Software Testing Strategies
• Glass-box testing )white)
– Pareto principle
– Basis path testing
• Black-box testing
– Boundary value analysis
– Redundancy testing
– Beta testing
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Documentation
• User Documentation
– Printed book for all customers
– On-line help modules
• System Documentation
– Source code
– Design documents
• Technical Documentation
– For installing, customizing, updating, etc.
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Software Ownership
• Copyright
– The “substantial similarity” test
– Filtration criteria: what is not copyrightable
• Features covered by standards
• Characteristics dictated by software purpose
• Components in the public domain
– The “look and feel” argument
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Software Ownership (continued)
• Patents
– “Natural laws” are traditionally not patentable
• Trade secrets
– Non-disclosure agreements are legally
enforceable
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