The course provides the students with the engineering principles,
methods and practice of how a large system can be specified, designed
and implemented using object oriented techniques.

Prerequisites

It is required that the course participants have knowledge of and
experience of programming. Experience of programming in an
object-oriented language, such as Java or C++, will be very
helpful. And it is {\bf desirable} that participants of this course
should have some basic knowledge of Software Engineering topics such
as software cycles, project planning, management, software testing.

Aims \& Objectives

The overall purpose of the course is to give an understanding of the
problems of large-scale software development and how this can be
solved using object oriented techniques. The main aim of the course is
to teach the understanding and use of object oriented methods to
analyse, specify, design and implement large computer systems.

At the end of the course the students should be able to:

- analyse customer requirements;

- use UML for specification of a  system of a moderate size;

- produce a design based on an object oriented specification;

- implement a design; and

- be very clear about activities to carry out and the artifacts to
produce in a software development,

- have a sound grasp of the basic principles and techniques in
object-oriented software development,

These notes are mostly based on the lectures on a module called
Software Engineering and System Development that I have been teaching
at Leicester University since 1998. The module is core to 2nd year BSc
in Computer Science students, final year BEng and MEng students on
electronic and software engineering students, and optional to BSc
Maths and Computing Science students, Maths students, and Combined
Science students.