inf004 Software Project (Complete module description)

Useful prior knowledge:

• Students have understood the basic concepts of imperative, procedural and object-oriented programming in the Java programming language as well as object-oriented software design and can apply the specialist terminology and initial approaches in UML appropriately.
• They have experience in the independent development of corresponding programs using modern programming environments for software development and software testing and can read and understand existing program code in Java, examine it for errors and discuss it in a team.
• They are familiar with the concept of concurrency and can apply it in Java.
• They know general algorithms and can select algorithms and data structures to solve a specific problem.

The students will be able to develop software iteratively in a team. This includes all stages of the software life cycle (requirements, analysis, design, implementation, test) and the presentation of the software development process. The students improve their Java skills. Professional competence The students: - Apply software development techniques and methods and are aware of the techniques' limitations

Professional competence: 
The students:

• apply techniques and methods and recognize their limitations

Methodological competence
The students:

• develop complex software with software engineering methods using a process-model and document these appropriately
• make a rough schedule/estimate on tasks
• implement an iterative process
• familiarise themselves with unknown systems and frameworks
• process complex tasks based on science and engineering and split them in subtasks
• organise and implement small-scale projects
• present and document the outcome of the project

Social competence
The students:

• work in a team and solve conflicts
• develop complex software in a team and assess the required efforts (time management)
• reflect their self-performance and the performance of other students (review and retrospective)

Self-competence
The students:

• improve their capacity for teamwork, in particular the ability to solve conflicts

In a two-semester course a team of students develops a larger system. For this project a Scrum similar model is used. Typical external stakeholders/roles are represented by members of the team. Feedback is provided in regular presentations (two per semester with the lecturer, weekly in the seminars). An accompanying lecture block provides the most important software engineering subjects and repeats or deepens new methods and techniques necessary for the project.

Module Capacity:
unrestricted