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INF-2900 Software engineering - 10 stp

The course is administrated by

Institutt for informatikk

Type of course

The subject can be taken as a singular course.

Course overlap

AUT-2004 Application Development 1 ects

Course contents

This course covers various aspects of the software life cycle, with an emphasis on the agile software development process. These include requirement gathering and specification; project estimation, planning, collaboration and management; and software design, implementation, debugging, testing, evolution, documentation, release and maintenance. The course emphasizes on learning-through-building with a course-long team project. In the project, the students will work on the various software development aspects using an agile software development process.

Admission requirements

Higher Education Entrance Qualification + specific entrance requirements equivalent to MATRS: R1/(S1+S2). Application code: 9354 - Singular course in computer science

Objective of the course

Knowledge - The student

has broad knowledge on the various aspects of the software life cycle,
has in-depth understanding of the agile software development process.

Skills - The student

has first-hand experience on the various practices in an agile development, including requirement gathering and specification, project estimation and planning, collaboration and project management, software design, implementation, debugging, testing and maintenance, software demo, documentation, user feedback, group retrospectives, and so on.
has first-hand experience in some specific software development methods, including test-driven development, code refactoring, and so on.
is proficient in using some specific software development tools, including source code management, test automation and so on.

General competence - The student

is competent in team work and problem solving.

Language of instruction

The language of instruction is English and all of the syllabus material is in English. Examination questions will be given in English, but may be answered either in English or a Scandinavian language.

Teaching methods

Lectures: 30 hours, Team meetings, Laboratory guidance: 30 hours. The course is given every spring semester.