Software Development Syllabus

• Software and Software Development

• What is Software?
• Types of software products
• Other classifications of software
• Software product attributes
• The software development process
• Waterfall model
• Evolutionary development model
• Rapid application development

• Concepts of Programming
• Amateur Vs Professional programming
• History of software design
• Programming in art form
• Structured programming
• Unstructured programming
• Object Oriented Programming
• Computer Programs
• Sequential Processing
• Concurrent Processing
• Concept of Algorithm
• Flow Charts
• Pseudo Codes and Data Declaration
• Programming in Pascal
• Pascal Syntaxes
• Comments
• Program structure
• Identifiers
• Constants
• Data Types
• Variables
• Assignments
• Operators
• Inputs and Outputs
• Control Constructs
• IF / THEN / ELSE conditions
• Repetition controls
• CASE statement
• Procedures and Functions
• Recursion
• Array Processing
• Records
• File Processing
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Array searching
• Linear and Binary Search
• Array Sorting
• Selection sort
• Bubble sort
• Insertion sort
• Linked List
• What is pointer?
• Constructing a Linked list with pointers to records
• Testing
• Objectives and principles of testing
• Static Vs Dynamic testing
• What is debugging?
• Stages dynamic testing
• Unit testing
• Integration testing
• Acceptance testing
• Software testing strategies
• Black box and white box testing
• Static verification
• Desk checking and Dry running
• V- Model
• Documentation
• What is documentation
• Types of documentation
• User documentation
• System documentation
• Program documentation
• File Organization
• Serial and Sequential Files
• Indexed serial files
• Inserting records
• Searching records
• Indexed sequential file
• Inserting records
• Hash / Random / Direct files
• Overflow area
• General overflow area
• CASE  (Computer Aided Software Engineering) Tools
• Traditional Vs CASE based development
• Advantages of CASE tools
• Components of CASE tools
• Upper CASE
• Lower CASE
• Cross life cycle CASE
• CASE support in software life cycle
• Prototyping
• Structures analysis and design
• Code generation
• Test case generation
• Reverse and Re-Engineering
• Other usages of CASE tools
• User Interface Design
• Types of user interfaces
• UI Design principles
• Command line interfaces
• Graphical user interfaces
• Web Interfaces
• System Software
• Compilers and Interpreters
• Assemblers
• Comparison of programming languages