SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
SEN4931	Special Topics in Software Engineering I	Fall Spring	3	0	3	6

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Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Assist. Prof. TAMER UÇAR
Course Lecturer(s):	Prof. Dr. NAFİZ ARICA
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	Study of various topics, like advanced design patterns with current technical developments in software engineering. Applications in software engineering concepts with enterprise systems and their solution techniques. Teaching Methods and Techniques Used in the Course: Lecture, reading, individual study

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Describe SOA basics
2. Describe timeline of SOA
3. Analyze web services framework
4. Define SOA principles
5. Analyze SOA layers
6. Analyze SOA lifecycle phases
7. Describe service analysis
8. Describe service modeling
9. Analyze service oriented design

Course Content

The course content is composed of introducing service oriented architecture (soa), evolution of soa, the web services framework, web services and contemporary soa, principles of service orientation, soa application and business service layers, soa orchestration service layer and agnostic services, soa delivery lifecycle phases, service oriented analysis, service modeling, service oriented design, wsdl.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introducing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
2)	Evolution of SOA
3)	The Web Services Framework
4)	Web Services and Contemporary SOA
5)	Principles of Service Orientation
6)	SOA Application and Business Service Layers
7)	SOA Applications / Midterm I
8)	SOA Orchestration Service Layer and Agnostic Services
9)	SOA Delivery Lifecycle Phases
10)	Service Oriented Analysis
11)	Service modeling
12)	Service Modeling / Midterm II
13)	Service Oriented Design
14)	WSDL

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Concepts, Technology, and Design, Thomas Erl 978-0131858589
References:	Yok

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Quizzes	2	% 10
Homework Assignments	2	% 10
Midterms	2	% 40
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 40
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Study Hours Out of Class	3	5	15
Homework Assignments	2	5	10
Quizzes	2	3	6
Midterms	2	14	28
Final	1	17	17
Total Workload			118

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Be able to specify functional and non-functional attributes of software projects, processes and products.
2)	Be able to design software architecture, components, interfaces and subcomponents of a system for complex engineering problems.
3)	Be able to develop a complex software system with in terms of code development, verification, testing and debugging.
4)	Be able to verify software by testing its program behavior through expected results for a complex engineering problem.
5)	Be able to maintain a complex software system due to working environment changes, new user demands and software errors that occur during operation.
6)	Be able to monitor and control changes in the complex software system, to integrate the software with other systems, and to plan and manage new releases systematically.
7)	Be able to identify, evaluate, measure, manage and apply complex software system life cycle processes in software development by working within and interdisciplinary teams.
8)	Be able to use various tools and methods to collect software requirements, design, develop, test and maintain software under realistic constraints and conditions in complex engineering problems.
9)	Be able to define basic quality metrics, apply software life cycle processes, measure software quality, identify quality model characteristics, apply standards and be able to use them to analyze, design, develop, verify and test complex software system.
10)	Be able to gain technical information about other disciplines such as sustainable development that have common boundaries with software engineering such as mathematics, science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, economics, management and be able to create innovative ideas in entrepreneurship activities.
11)	Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering and learn and successfully apply necessary technical skills through professional life.
12)	Be able to write active reports using foreign languages and Turkish, understand written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, give clear and understandable instructions.
13)	Be able to have knowledge about the effects of engineering applications on health, environment and security in universal and societal dimensions and the problems of engineering in the era and the legal consequences of engineering solutions.