UNIT 1:
Introduction, Software- problem and prospects Software development process: System Development Life Cycle, Waterfall Model, Spiral Model and other models, Unified processAgile development-Agile Process- Extreme Programming- Other agile Process models.

UNIT 2:
Measures, Metrics and Indicators, Metrics in the Process and Project Domains, Software Measurement, Metrics of Software Quality, S/W reliability, Software estimation techniques, LOC and FP estimation. Empirical models like COCOMO, project tracking and scheduling, reverse engineering.

UNIT 3:
Software requirements and specification: feasibility study, Informal/formal specifications, pre/post conditions, algebraic specification and requirement analysis models, Specification design tools. Software design and implementation: Software design objectives and techniques, User interface design, Modularity, Functional decomposition, DFD, Data Dictionary, Objectoriented design, Design patterns implementation strategies like top- down, bottom-up.

UNIT 4:
Coding standard and guidelines, programming style, code sharing, code review, rapid prototyping, specialization, construction, class extensions, intelligent software agents, reuse performance improvement, debugging. Software Testing Strategies: Verification and Validation, Strategic Issues, test plan, white box, black-box testing, unit and integration testing, system testing test case design and acceptance testing, maintenance activities.

UNIT 5:
Software Maintenance: Software Supportability, Reengineering, Business Process Reengineering, Reverse Engineering, Restructuring, Forward Engineering, Economics of Reengineering, project scheduling and tracking plan, project management plan, SQA and quality planning, SCM activities and plan, CMM, Software project management standards, Introduction to component based software engineering.