Software Deployment and Evolution

Unit Code:HIT3311

Credit Points	Duration	Contact Hours	Campus	Prerequisite	Corequisite
12.5 Credit Points	1 Semester or equivalent	36 hours	Hawthorn, Sarawak	Software Project Practices and Management (HIT3309)	Nil

Related Course/s:

A unit of study in the Bachelor of Engineering (Robotics and Mechatronics)/ Bachelor of Science (Computer Science and Software Engineering), Bachelor of Science (Professional Software Development) and Bachelor of Engineering (Telecommunication and Network Engineering)/ Bachelor of Science (Computer Science and Software Engineering)

Aims & Objectives:

This final-year unit aims to deepen the students understanding of the software lifecycle, specifically the set of activities focused on releasing and maintaining software.

Learning Outcomes

After successfully completing this unit, a student should be able to:

Describe the activities in software deployment and apply these in a problem context.
Apply knowledge of software environments to plan development and deployment.
Describe and classify issues that drive software maintenance.
Measure and model the growth as well as change of a software system in order to analyse the history of a
software project.
Read scientific literature, summarize key contributions, repeat experiments and discuss outcomes.

Teaching Methods:

Lecture (24 hrs), Tutorial (12 hrs)

Assessment:

Assignments, Examination

Generic Skills Outcomes:

Students will be given feedback in their skills in:

writing technical documents;
problem solving

Content:

Software Deployment Activities
Software Environments
Software Maintenance
Measuring Size and Complexity of Software
Software Evolution