CSE6214 Software Engineering Fundamentals
Tutorial 1
Part A: Discussion
Topic (Lecture 1): Introduction to Software Engineering
1. What do you understand about the term “software engineering”? (please refer to
Lecture 1)
2. State a few reasons for the need to “engineer” a software.
3. Describe the following domains of software applications using examples. (you can
refer to Chapter 1 of the text book)
• System Software
• Application Software
• Engineering/Scientific Software
• Embedded Software
• Product-line Software
• Web/Mobile Applications
• Artificial Intelligence Software
Discuss the important features of each category and how they affect the development
of the software.
4. Describe Polya’s Problem Solving Techniques and how it relates to the software
engineering process.
5. Other than good knowledge and skills in computer programming, what are the other
abilities that good software engineers should have?
Part B: Exploration
1. Search the Internet for information on “software crisis”. Discuss how this situation
developed the need for software engineering process.
2. Identify a software that you are using together with other students. Answer the
following questions:
a) Specify the software application domain and category of the software.
b) Who are the main users of the software? Specify at least 3 different roles for the
software.
c) For each role, describe a few main functions provided by the software for the role.
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d) What additional features that you would like to add to the software?
e) Describe possible factors that would affect the software to be updated to a newer
version.
Part C: Project
Objective: To form the project group, initial domain study.
1. Identify members of tutorial to form a project group. You can submit the names to the
location specified by the tutorial lecturers to record the group.
2. Discuss the software system for the project, identify the main users and processes in
the system. Try to determine the main outputs of the system and how they could be
created from the processing in the software.
3. Based on the information, write a short description for the software (about one or two
paragraphs).
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