Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: The Fundamentals of Information Systems and Software Engineering (17.E235)

Native organizations units: Sub-department for Applied Computer Science and Informatics

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Applied Computer Science and Informatics
ECTS	6

Mastering the basic software engineering and information system design knowledge and skills , methods and techniques of vision formulation and requirements specification of complex software products. Enabling the students to apply different methodological approaches in software design and understanding the position of software within the scope of complex information systems. Enabling students to develop complex, GUI-oriented, event driven, software products based on object oriented paradigm. Mastering the fundamental activities of software process (formulation, specification and monitoring) methods, techniques and version control tools.

After completing the course students are able to independently implement complex software solutions, design graphical user interface based on specified standards and manage data storage based on textual databases using object platform. Students also acquire the bases of professional software development and information system design.

Theoretical part: Fundamentals of software engineering, motivation and problems, definition of profession and structure of knowledge. Software demands, design, construction, testing, maintenance and software configuration management. Software lifecycle models, quality and related disciplines. Basic notions of system programming. Fundamentals of information system design, concept of modern information system organization. Phases of information system evolution. Challenges of modern information technologies and concepts in information system design. Business information system architecture. Practical part: Object oriented programming repetition, elements of object platform, standard template library, visual components standard library. Advanced concepts of object oriented programming.

Two semestral projects represent the backbone of the practical part of the course. The first project is individual tutorial driven and serves mastering: principles, methods, techniques and tools necessary for the development of complex software products. The second project is uses pair work and is focused on the development of a vision and specification off different software product. Individuals and pairs, supported by the Activity Tracking System, record work on semestral projects and, using the version control system, work on the delivery of a specified software product. For each projects it is necessary to formulate: 1. Software product vision - the collection of Wiki pages and 2. The requirement model - based on the selected modeling tool. Complete JAVA GUI implementation is demanded only for the first semester project.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
G. Curtis, D. Cobham	Business Information Systems Analysis, Design and Practice	2002	Prentica Hall	English
B. Shniederman	Designing The User Interface	2002	Addison Wesley	English
Pfleeger, S.L.	Software Engineering : Theory and Practice	2001	Prentice-Hall, New York	English

Course activity	Pre-examination	Obligations	Number of points
Praćenje aktivnosti pri realizaciji projekata	Yes	Yes	10.00
Project defence	Yes	Yes	30.00
Theoretical part of the exam	No	Yes	25.00
Practical part of the exam - tasks	No	Yes	25.00
Project defence	Yes	Yes	10.00