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SWE
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Note: See beginning of Section H for abbreviations, course numbers and coding.
*L - Laboratory periods on alternate weeks.
* - Engineering electives. Not all offered every year.
Consult Department as to availability of courses from year to year.
All courses must be passed with a grade of C or better.
SWE 4040
Software Engineering Design Project
7 ch (1*C 6L) [W]
A software design and implementation experience involving a medium to large group. Students prepare
requirements, specification, analysis and design documents as a team toward development of a useful software
product and use the documentation to implement and test the product. The development process should consider
a broad range of constraints including non-functional requirements to the software product, health and safety,
sustainable development and environmental stewardship. Students manage their projects professionally, present
their design work orally, and demonstrate formally that the product meets its requirements. Prerequisite: 100 ch
in the software engineering program or permission from the instructor. Students may not take both SWE
4040 and INFO 4900 for credit.
SWE 4103
Software Quality and Project Management [A]
4 ch (3C 3*L) [W]
Software Quality: Requirements gathering techniques. Formal specification languages. Verification and validation
techniques. Statistical software reliability engineering. Software metrics. Software process maturity models (CMM
and ISO 9001). Software Project Management: Software project tracking, planning and scheduling. Organizing and
managing software teams. Monitoring and controlling software development. Factors influencing productivity and
success. Risk analysis. Planning for change. Note: alternating with SWE 4203 . Prerequisite: CS 2043 or permission
from the instructor.
SWE 4203
Software Evolution and Maintenance [A]
4 ch (3C 3*L)
Maintainability and reusability analysis. Approaches to maintenance and long-term software development. Change
management and impact analysis. Release and configuration management. Reengineering and reverse
engineering. Regression testing. Note: alternating with SWE 4103 . Prerequisite: CS 2043 or permission from the
instructor.
SWE 4303
Performance Analysis of Computer Systems
4 ch (3C 3*L)
Computer systems performance analysis and benchmarking. Metrics for the performance of the processor, the
memory system, the communication system and the I/O system. Theoretical tools, and industrial benchmark suites
like the SPEC benchmarks. Prerequisite: permission from the instructor.
SWE 4403
Software Architecture and Design Patterns (Cross Listed: CS 4015)
4 ch (3C 2*L)
Examines pattern-oriented software architecture and development, architectural styles and patterns, design
patterns, pattern systems and applications, pattern languages, and implementation techniques in various
programming languages. Prerequisites: CS 2043 or permission from the instructor.
SWE 4913
Independent Project
4 ch [W]
An independent project or literature survey. Students work under the supervision of a chosen faculty member.
Students are responsible for finding a supervisor and initiating the project or literature survey. Deliverables include
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a comprehensive report detailing the work. Prerequisite: successful completion of 100 ch in an undergraduate
program in the Faculty of Engineering or Faculty of Computer Science.
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