Software Production ( ) Second Semester 2010/2011 Dr. Samer Odeh Hanna (PhD) office: 318

Software Production Regulations  Attendance policy Absence from lectures shall not exceed 15%. Students who exceed the 15% limit without a medical or emergency excuse acceptable to and approved by the Dean of the IT faculty shall not be allowed to take the final examination and shall receive a mark of zero for the course. If the excuse is approved by the Dean, the student shall be considered to have withdrawn from the course.  Being late to lectures After the start of any lecture, students are not allowed joint it, no matter what is the excuse.

Software Production address  My address is:   Please send me an with the following information on the subject bar:  Software Production Student number: Student name:  I will create a mailing list for the class so that I can send you some important files, books, notices, warnings, etc.  You also can send me an anytime if you have any comment about the module.

Software Production Course Objectives  This course provides students with an overall context in which software systems are developed from the viewpoint of processes that support the development.  Software engineering is described as the set of activities developers engage in to create high-quality products within schedule and budget constraints.

Software Production Specific Objectives  Understand the theoretical basis for process improvement efforts.  Understand and apply process improvement initiatives:  At the personal level  At the team level  At the organizational level  Compare specific processes

Software Production Objectives Actual Core Processes Process Improvement Frameworks Process Models Making Things Better Knowing What we Are doing In first place

Software Production Textbooks  B. Bruegge, A. H. Dutoit, “Object-Oriented Software Engineering Using UML, Patterns, and Java”, Second Edition, Prntice Hall,  J. Hunt, “Agile Software Construction”, Springer,  W. Richardson, D. Avondolio, S. Schrager, M. W. Mitchell, and J. Scanlon, “Professional Java, ® JDK ® 6 Edition”, Wrox, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Notes:  First textbook is available at the university library  Second and third textbook are available as a pdf file on the lecturer’s website.

Software Production Chapter 1: Introduction

Software Production Requirements Software What we intend

Software Production How it should go Requirements Analysis Implementation Design Testing Delivery and Installation

Software Production Inherent Problems with Software Development  Requirements are complex  The client does not know the functional requirements in advance  Requirements may be changing  Technology enablers introduce new possibilities to deal with requirements  Frequent changes are difficult to manage  There is more than one software system  New system must be backward compatible with existing system (“legacy system”)  Phased development: Need to distinguish between the system under development and already released systems  This leads us to software life cycle modeling