This course gives students the experience of working on a substantial team based software project. The course provides the opportunity to apply the principles, practices and tools learned during the associated Professional Software Development (H) course.

Weekly full day laboratory in conjunction with Professional Software Development (H)

Team Project Minor (H)

Professional Software Development (H)

Systems Programming (H)

Assessment is split between:

Assessment during progress demonstrations and requirements gathering (x5) during the year (25%)

Software engineering practice assessment (25%)

Final software product assessment (25%)

Case study dissertation (experience report) of the team's experience as a software team (25%)

To introduce students to the constraints and challenges of substantial, long lived software development projects. To provide the opportunity to practice software industry standard practices and tools for managing the complexity of large scale software development. To develop students' understanding of sustainability and decarbonisation as related to the topic.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Manage a substantial team based software project in a disciplined and organised manner;

2. Work with a customer in a problem domain to elaborate, specify and refine requirements;

3. Select, and employ industry standard software practices and tools as appropriate within a software process;

4. Present project progress through short demonstrations;

5. Review, analyse and adapt project processes within a process improvement framework.

6. Assess the impact of the computing system life cycle, including hardware and software components, on emissions