Software Engineering (CSCI370)

The following notes discuss functions provided by operating-system services including file-system manipulation, communications, debugging facilities, resource allocation, logging, protection, and security. In addition, it discusses system calls.

The following notes discuss model-driven engineering, usage of model-driven engineering, types of models, MDA transformations, agile methods, key points, and structural models.

The following notes discuss the differences between concurrency and parallelism, pthreads, threads, data parallelism, task parallelism, multithreaded server architecture, thread pools, one-to-one, class diagrams, state diagram, sequence diagram, and planned system models

The following notes discuss core ideas, weather information, overall system organization, system context for the weather station, weather station characteristics, and install instruments including an anemometer, barometer, ground and air thermometers, etc. In addition, it discusses five characteristics of software including abstract, understandability, accuracy, predictiveness, and cost-effectiveness.

The following notes discuss users of a requirements document, guidelines for writing requirements, use cases for the Mentcare system, and requirements checking.

The following notes discuss the insulin pump control system and case studies including a personal insulin pump, a mental health care patient management system, a wilderness weather station, and iLearn. In addition, it discusses software prototyping, prototype development, and issues.

The following notes discuss how non-functional requirements for the user audience are functional for Mentcare, types of nonfunctional requirements, metrics, requirements engineering processes, requirements elicitation, stages, process activities, and requirements discovery,

The following notes discuss Mentcare, prototyping, business requirements key concepts, and stakeholders in the Mentcare system.

The following notes discuss elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, and various errors. In addition, it discusses user requirements and system requirements. Moreover, it discusses key features of the Mentcare system including patient monitoring and administrative reporting as well as system concerns including privacy and safety.

The following notes discuss overall ideas to keep in mind, the object design process, the platform-independent object design specification, the object-design step, concurrency, fundamental patterns, the data design, system architecture, and design models.