In computer science, software engineering courses expose the undergraduate students to both the technical and methodological aspects of software development. The traditional software development methods and techniques represent a huge proportion of the courses and hence contribute an essential part of software engineering students’ development process. This plan-driven development is dependent on a set of predefined phases and ongoing documentation which found to be problematic; such as time-consuming, slipped requirements and complicated processes. The main aim of this paper is to study and review the adoption of Agile Software Methodology and Team Software Process (TSPi) practices in the undergraduate course focus on software development. The framework and course plan will be designed to apply and observe the implementation. Furthermore, this study will help to gather the teams’ viewpoint regarding the importance of Agile and TSPi practices in handling small projects with real clients.
Software design is a critical step in the development process of software systems. Failure to produce correct design specification will result in the production of an unsatisfactory system. This failure is not because of the chosen method applied during the development process, but it is because of the system analyst fail to understand on how to achieve the precise requirements during requirements analysis process. This paper describes an approach to write abstract requirement specifications using SOFL. This approach requires two steps: informal and semi-formal steps. In order to describe on how this approach can be applied to capture requirements using SOFL easily, we use a case study of a brain tumor treatment system for construct an abstract requirements. This case study demonstrates the suitability of SOFL for developing safety-critical system and provides us with an insight into the knowledge of how SOFL approach can be effectively supported.
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