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BA17E34 SOFTWARE PROJECT AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT LT P C
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Course Objective
 To understand project management cycle in software development
 To study various project estimation and quality models in software development

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9
Software Projects, Projects Planning, Process models, Waterfall, RAD, V, Spiral, Incremental, Prototyping,
Agile, Project Tracking.

UNIT II SOFTWARE METRICS 9
Goal, Question, Metric (GQM) model, Product Quality metrics, In process Quality metrics, Metrics for
software maintenance and testing, Complexity Metrics.

UNIT III SOFTWARE PROJECT ESTIMATION 9
Effort and Cost Estimation - Expert Judgment, LOC, Function Points, Extended Function Points, Feature
Points, Object Points, COCOMO-81, COCOMO-II; Risk Management.

UNIT IV SOFTWARE QUALITY 9
Quality Management Systems, Software Quality Models- FURPS, McCalls Models, Applying seven basic
quality tools in software development, Measuring Quality, Gilb, CoQUAMO, Lean software development.

UNIT V SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE 9
Software Reliability models-Rayleigh model, Weibull model; Defect Removal Effectiveness; Quality
standards- ISO 9000 models and standards for process improvement, ISO/IEC 9126-1 to 9126-4, SQuaRE,
ISO/IEC 25000, ISO/IEC 25010, CMM, PCMM, CMMI, SPICE.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES
 Knowledge of software development process and quality models
 Knowledge of software project estimation and quality assurance

TEXTBOOKS
1. Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering A Practioners Approach, McGraw Hill International Edition,
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New Delhi, 7 Edition, 2010.
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2. Stephen Kan, Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering, Pearson Education Asia, 8
Impression 2009.

REFERENCES
1. Walker Royce, Software Project Management – A unified framework, PearsonEducation Asia, New
Delhi, 2000.
2. Alan Gillies, Software Quality – Theory and Management, Thomson Learning, 2011.
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3. Bob Hughes and Mike Cotterell, Software Project Management, Tata McGraw Hill, 5 Edition, 2010)
4. Robert T. Futrell, Donald F. Sahefer and Linda I. Shafer, Quality Software Project Management, Pearson
Education Asia, 2002.
5. Richard H. Thayer, Software Engineering Project Management, John Wiley, 2007

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