CS2103/T Software Engineering

A balanced, iterative, and brown-field introduction to Software Engineering...

CS2103/T is an introductory Software Engineering module. It covers roughly a 50-50 balance of basic SE theory and practice that a student needs to know before going for SE internships in the industry or taking higher-level project modules. The module follows an iterative approach of going increasingly deeper into SE by exposing students to a series of increasingly bigger software projects. The module is notable as one of the rare SE modules that takes a brown-field approach to teaching SE.

On the theory side, this module is supported by a customized online textbook Software Engineering for Self-Directed Learners, integrated into this module website.

The practice side of this module is mainly covered by a team project. Students are expected to take over an existing project AddressBook-Level4 (AB4) -- a relatively small yet non-trivial (10 KLoC) generic product -- and enhance it into a better product or evolve it into a different product. To help students to tackle the learning curve of working with 10 KLoC of code, the module takes them through a series of projects of increasing size, from AddressBook-Level1(1 KLoC) to AddressBook-Level3(4 KLoC).

Given below is a summary of what the module covers and does not cover (i.e., unticked items).