SWE 6863:Software Engineering Ethics and Legal Issues

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
This course provides an overview of software engineering and explores both the theoretical principles and their application in the engineering of software-intensive systems. Topics cover the entire software development life-cycle and include software engineering process models, project management and planning, requirements engineering, software architecture and design, prototyping, verification and validation, usability and human factors, quality assurance, and professionalism and ethics. The course includes a real-world team project in which students are given hands-on experience utilizing state-of-the art tools to analyze and design a software system.