Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Software Engineering Fundamentals

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

ISYS3475

City Campus

Postgraduate

175H Computing Technologies

Face-to-Face

 Sem 1 2025

Course Coordinator: Dr Mojtaba Shahin

Course Coordinator Phone: .

Course Coordinator Email: mojtaba.shahin@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 14.11

Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment, by email


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Enforced Pre-Requisite Courses
Successful completion of the below course/s:

Note: it is a condition of enrolment at RMIT that you accept responsibility for ensuring that you have completed the prerequisite/s and agree to concurrently enrol in co-requisite courses before enrolling in a course.
For your information go to RMIT Course Requisites webpage.

 

If you have completed prior studies at RMIT or another institution that developed the skills and knowledge covered in the above course/s you may be eligible to apply for credit transfer.

Alternatively, if you have prior relevant work experience that developed the skills and knowledge covered in the above course/s you may be eligible for recognition of prior learning.

Please follow the link for further information on how to apply for credit for prior study or experience.


Course Description

This course is designed to provide you opportunity to gain knowledge and skills necessary to analyse, design and implement complex software engineering projects. You should learn to analyse and design fairly complex real-life systems, working as teams. The project based approach used requires you to review and refine your design iteratively based on regular feedback from staff. You are also made aware of current software engineering standards and processes. You are also taught to consider qualitative aspects including maintainability, extensibility, reusability and robustness in every stage of the software-engineering life-cycle. At the end of the course you should be able to combine top-down and bottom-up approaches to software design and choose the most appropriate process considering the underlying technology, project duration, the level of risks and the customer expectations.

This course includes a Work Integrated Learning experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/ or community is integral to your experience.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Program Learning Outcomes

This course contributes to the program learning outcomes for the following program(s):

MC208 - Master of Information Technology

PLO 1    Enabling Knowledge
PLO 2    Critical Analysis
PLO 3    Problem Solving
PLO 4    Communication
PLO 5    Responsibility
PLO 6    Teamwork

For more information on the program learning outcomes for your program, please see the program guide.


Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

  1. Explain and apply the main aspects of software engineering.
  2. Evaluate requirements for a software system.
  3. Apply the process of analysis and design using the object-oriented approach.
  4. Work effectively in a team to analyse the requirements of a complex software system, and solve problems by creating appropriate designs that satisfies these requirements.
  5. Communicate effectively with others, especially regarding the progress of the system development and the content of the design by means of reports and presentations. Use appropriate design, version control and collaboration tools to work effectively as a team. 
  6. Recognise and describe current trends in the area of software engineering. 
  7. design and carry out tests using various testing techniques and tools.  
  8. Implement the design using an appropriate object oriented language. 


Overview of Learning Activities

You will be actively engaged in a range of learning activities such as lectorials, tutorials, practicals, laboratories, seminars, project work, class discussion, individual and group activities. Delivery may be face to face, online or a mix of both.

You are encouraged to be proactive and self-directed in your learning, asking questions of your lecturer and/or peers and seeking out information as required, especially from the numerous sources available through the RMIT library, and through links and material specific to this course that is available through myRMIT Studies Course.


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through myRMIT Studies Course.

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.

RMIT University is an Academic Partner of Visual Paradigm, and is granted the use of Visual Paradigm's UML modeler and BPMN modeler for educational use.


Overview of Assessment

This course has no hurdle requirements.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task 1: Processes, Requirements and Architecture.
Weighting: 25%
This assessment supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 6
This is an individual task

Assessment Task 2: UML Design 1 (Use Case Diagrams, Use Case Descriptions, Class Diagrams, Code).
Weighting: 25%
This assessment supports CLOs 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8

Assessment Task 3: UML Design 2 (Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams).
Weighting: 25%
This assessment supports CLOs 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8

Assessment Task 4: Git, User Stories, Unit & Acceptance Testing.
Weighting 25%
This assessment supports CLOs 1, 2, 5, 6, 7

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.