1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Content
Software costing, scheduling and risk management;
software quality management (incl. SQM Approaches (eg,
IS09001, CMM, SPICE, Bootstrap, TQM), Standards,
Configuration Management); software metrics.
Recommended Reading
Boehm, B.,. Software Risk Management, IEEE Computer Society
Press, Washington, 1989.
Fenton, N., Software Metrics: A Rigorous Approach, Chapman &
Hall, London, 1991.
ES305 Database
10 credit points .3 hours per week.. Hawthorn *.
Prerequisite: nil Instruction: lectures and tutorials
Assessment: tutorial exercises, laboratory exercises, assignment
and final examination
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
and Bachelor of Software Engineering
0 b jectives
To provide a solid theoretical foundation to the
fundamentals of database design and database systems
development; to survey existing Database Management
Systems and provide a framework to compare and evaluate
different DBMS products; to provide sufficient practical
exposure to designing and using databases so as to equip
students for basic database tasks in industry and
government.
Content
Database Architecture; Data Models; Conceptual Design;
Entity-Relationship and Semantic Object Modeling;
Relational Theory; Logical and Physical Design; DBMS
Survey and Evaluation; Database Tools for Software
Development; Network DBMS's; Hierarchical DBMS's;
Object Databases.
Recommended Reading
Kroenke, D., Database Processing: FundamentaS Design,
Implementation, 5th Edition, Macmillian, 1995.
Grauer, R. & Barber, M., Exploring Microsoft Access 2.0, Prentice
Hall, 1994.
ES306 Introduction to Human -Computer
Interaction
10 credit points .3 hours per week.. Hawthorn *.
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c Prerequisite: nil Instrtlction: lectures, tutorials and
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laboratory sessions. Assessment: assignments and final
examination
2 A second year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
and Bachelor of Software Engineering.
0 biectives
To introduce the process of user centred system design; to
introduce the technology of the user interface; to introduce
the basic underlying theory of interaction.
Content
What is HCI and why is it needed; Human user;
performance, behaviour, cognition and social action;
interface technology, devices, styles and applications;
development paradigms, formal, cognitive, participative and
usability approaches; up stream usability engineering, task,
user and situation analysis; down stream usability
engineering, experimental, interpretive and predictive
evaluation; guidelines, standards and metrics; tools, userinterface
management systems (UIMS); Groupware and
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW);
organisational issues.
Recommended Reading
Baecker, R., Buxton, W., Greenberg, S. Readings in Human
Computer-Interaction: Beyond 2000, Morgan Kaufman, Cal, USA,
1995.
Booth, P. An Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction,
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hove, 1989.
ES402 Systems Programming
10 credit points 3 hours per week.. Hawthorn *.
Prerequisite: ES107, ESIOO Instruction: lectures and
laboratory sessions. Assessment: assignments and final
examination.
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
and the Bachelor of Software Engineering.
0 b jedives
To study the implementation of the UNIXTMsystem by a
consideration of a selection of the system calls; to study the
development of network-aware software.
Content
Low level I/O; file system access and manipulation; time
under UNIXR: process control; accessing user information;
signals and interrupts; interprocess communication and
networking; remote procedure calls(RPC) and distributed
computing environment (DCE) services; 1/0 to terminals
and device control.
Recommended Reading
Stevens, W.R., Advanced Programming in the UNIP
Environment, Addison-Wesley, Mass, 1992.
Stevens, W.R., UNIP Network Programming, Prentice-Hall,
1990.
ES403 Software Development Project
10 credit points . Equivalent to 3 hours per week..
Hawthorn Prerequisite: ES304 Instruction: lectures and
project team development activities. Assessment:
assignments
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
and the Bachelor of Software Engineering.
0 biedives
To apply the software engineering and management skills
acquired in the previous semesters of the course to a
substantial software development project in a team
environment; to give project teams experience in the
management of time and resources and the preparation of
the full range of project and software documentation.
Content
Project teams will be expected to liaise with a client to
establish user needs and to transform these needs into a
software solution; each project team will be required to
prepare a suite of deliverables; project plan, requirements