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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Dr. Abdallah Hassan


Lecture 1

[email protected]
Course Drive Link
• Find slides and suggested resources at:

https://
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Software Engineering
• Is it same as software development/programming?

• Why is it called “Engineering”?

• What are skills expected if you want to hold the title


“Software Engineer”???
Software Engineering
• Is it same as software development/programming?

• Why is it called “Engineering”?

• What are skills expected if you want to hold the title


“Software Engineer”???
What should a CS student know
• Foundational ‫( تأسيسية‬Computer science)
• Basic programming skills
• Problem solving (algorithm analysis , well known alg.)
• Data structures
• Math (Probability, Discrete math, algorithm analysis)

• Software Engineering
• OOP
• Design patterns
• Agile (methodology)
• Devops
• Unit testing
Suggested textbooks
Earlier software engineers
• Margaret Hamilton (mid 1960s) Apollo 11 flight software

• https://qz.com/726338/the-code-that-took-america-to-the-moon-
Earlier Software engineers (more than history)
• Classical work by Brooks 1974
• Shows how most of the problems
we face in software projects are
older than we think !!

• Mythical man-month: What a person


finishes in a month is not necessarily
done by two in half month !!

• Tar pit: Development teams can get


stuck at a point and cannot proceed
similar to animals in tar pit (project fails)
More on Man-Month issue
The Ringlemann effect
• The tendency for individual members of a team to become
increasingly less productive as the size of the team increases

• Bigger teams may not help (Two pizzas rule by Jeff Bezos)
Software Project secrets
• A percent of software projects fail (25%) (chapter 1)
• Software is different and complex (chapter 2)
• Traditional project management does not fit software
projects (chapter 3)
• Solution: Agile method instead of plan-driven (waterfall)
What is software engineering
• Related to commercial software (bigger scale systems)
• Projects done for real customer (organization / person) to solve
some problems
• Software engineering include many concepts:
• Methodology ‫منهج‬
• Tools (automation)
• Practices
• Testing

• Engineering: problem how to solve economically under


constraints

• Why software projects fail?


• Bad estimates of time and money (estimation is very tough activity)

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