Software development life cycles: development process models, Risk based evolutionary approaches; problem analysis and requirements specifications DFD and data dictionary; Important specification languages; Function point analysis, for estimation of lines and codes;
Software-cost evaluation: Software-cost evaluation based on COCOMO models and Norden and Raleigh’s stochastic model for software cost estimation; Architectural design-modularization, structured design methodology and other process oriented design methodologies, data and object orient design methodologies;
Software complexity metrics: Code length based, control structure based and hybrid methods; testing theoretical foundation, black box and white-box approaches. Integration and system testing; case studies; computer Aided software engineering.