The Nature of Software – The changing nature of Software – The Software Process – Process models –The Waterfall Model– Incremental Process Model-Evolutionary Process Models–The Unified Process- Agile Development – Extreme Programming (XP)- Adaptive Software Development(ASD)- Scrum-Crystal-Feature Driven Development(FDD)-Agile Modeling.

Requirements Analysis – Software Requirements – Requirements Engineering – Eliciting Requirements – Developing Use Cases – Building the Requirements Model – Negotiating and Validating Requirements.

Requirements Modeling: Scenarios, Information, Analysis Classes – Scenario Based Modeling – Data Modeling – Class-Based Modeling – Flow Oriented Models – Behavioral Models. Design Process and Concepts: Design Model: Data Design Elements – Architectural Design.

Software Testing Strategies – System Testing – Debugging – White Box Testing – Black Box Testing – Model Based Testing –Testing Object-Oriented and Web Based Applications – User Interface Testing – Configuration Testing – Security Testing – Performance Testing.

Software Project Management Concepts – Process and Project Metrics – Estimation for Software Projects – Project Scheduling – Risk Management – Software Configuration Management – Software Process Improvements (SPI) – The SPI Process – Capability Machine Model Integration (CMMI) – Other SPI Frameworks.