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 Major (H)

Team Project Minor (H)

Team Project 3

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%)

It is the default expectation that all courses will offer opportunities for reassessment or deferred assessment. Where it is not possible to offer this in some assessment components, the grade achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade, and any exceptions for this course are described below.

[No exceptions]

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.

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

1. Manage a substantial team based hardware and 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.