This course presents modern software engineering techniques and examines the software life-cycle, including software specification, design, implementation, testing and maintenance. The course evaluates past and current trends in software development practices including agile software development methods such as Extreme Programming (XP), Agile Modeling (AM), Scrum, ASD, DSDM, Crystal, Feature Driven Development (FDD), Incremental Funding Method (IFM), DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering. Agile software processes, DevOps, and SRE are the most recent trends in the software industry and promise strong productivity improvements, increased software quality, higher customer satisfaction and reduced developer turnover. Agile development techniques empower teams to overcome time-to-market pressures and volatile requirements. The course gives an overview of methods and techniques used in agile software processes, contrasts agile approaches with traditional software development methods, and discuss the sweet spots of both classes of methodologies. Other non-agile approaches that are widely used in industry such as the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and the Open Process Framework (OPF) will also be covered. Process improvement initiatives such as the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and Personal Software Process (PSP) will be discussed.
- Teacher: Nasser Mahmoud Tamim Mohamed