Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Have acquired highly specialised and integrated knowledge and broad skills in the various disciplines of computer science, which come after those within the Bachelor's in computer science.
• Carry out development or innovation projects in IT.
• Apply, mobilise, articulate and promote the knowledge and skills acquired in order to contribute to the achievement of a development or innovation project.
• Master the complexity of such work and take into account the objectives and constraints which characterise it.
• Master communication techniques.
• Communicate, both orally and in writing, their findings, original proposals, knowledge and underlying principles, in a clear, structured and justified manner.
• Develop and integrate a high degree of autonomy.
• Aquire new knowledge independently.
• Apply scientific methodology.
• Critically reflect on the impact of IT in general, and on the contribution to projects.

Learning Outcomes of UE

This UE puts into practice the concepts and activities of software engineering. The students should carry out a software development project in groups of 2 to 3 persons. A model-driven software development process should be followed, respecting the imposed functional and non-functional requirements. Students will be evaluated based on the following criteria: - the ability to work in groups and to respect the imposed constraints and deadlines
- the quality, consistency and completeness of the deliverables (software artefacts and reports)
- the quality of the produced object-oriented code and unit tests
- the functionality, usability and reliabilty of the final software project

Content of UE

A software product needs to be developed, based on a requirements specification, and following a phased software development life-cycle consisting of planning, modeling and implementation. The final deliverable should be a fully functional software product, produced on time and respecting the imposed quality requirements.
This learning activity allows to gain practical experience with user interface modeling, software modeling in UML, object-oriented programming in Java, unit testing, design patterns, version control, collaborative software development in groups, software project management and planning, and software quality management.

Prior Experience

A good knowledge of object-oriented programming concepts, and practical experience with the Java programming language.

Type of Assessment for UE in Q1

• Presentation and/or works

Q1 UE Assessment Comments

During Term 1, the deliverables of the first two phases of the project need to be provided before the imposed deadlines. They will be evaluated using the following weighting:
- planning phase: 10%;
- modelling phase (user interface mockup, UML models, modeling report): 35%.
Attention! If no deliverable is received before the imposed deadline, the implementation phase cannot be delivered, and a grade of 0/20 will be assigned.

Type of Assessment for UE in Q2

• Presentation and/or works

Q2 UE Assessment Comments

During Term 2, the deliverables of the implementation phase of the project (source code, executables, tests, user manual, implementation report) need to be provided before the imposed deadline. They will be evaluated using a weighting of 55%.
Attention! If no deliverable is received before the imposed deadline, a grade of 0/20 will be assigned.

Type of Assessment for UE in Q3

• Presentation and/or works

Q3 UE Assessment Comments

During Term 3, the deliverables of the last two phases need to be provided before the imposed deadline.
They will be evaluated using the following weighting:
- modeling phase: 30%
- implementation phase: 55%
The grade obtained for the planning phase during Term 1 will be taking into account for 10% in the grade for Term 3. Attention! If no deliverable is received for one or both phases before the imposed deadline, a grade of 0/20 will be assigned.

Type of Resit Assessment for UE in Q1 (BAB1)

• N/A

Q1 UE Resit Assessment Comments (BAB1)

Not applicable