Software Quality: Emphasizes testing, verification and validation techniques. Introduces formal specification languages, statistical software reliability engineering, software development process monitoring and maturity models, and process and product metrics. Software Project Management: Emphasizes software project tracking, planning and scheduling, organizing and managing software development teams, introduces factors influencing productivity and success, risk analysis and planning for change.
Prerequisite: CS 2613 or CS 3503, ECE 4403 or CS 2043 or permission from the instructor.