MSc Software Engineering

Comments about MSc Software Engineering - At the institution - Portsmouth - Hampshire

• Objectives
  The main subject areas covered are: formal methods, software measurement and testing, windows applications and software engineering. Students from this course will be practitioners with a holistic view, able to understand that success comes from integrating several software technologies against a defined system need.
• Entry requirements
  The course is aimed at students who wish to pursue careers as professional software engineers within information systems environments and/or undertake further research in the field. Students will acquire knowledge and skills in the key areas of existing and emerging software techniques against competitive software market need.
• Academic title
  MSc Software Engineering
• Course description
  You will study the following compulsory core units:
  
  -Software engineering
  -Project management
  -Software measurement and testing
  -Formal methods in software engineering
  -Object-oriented process and techniques
  -Masters skills and practice
  -Windows application programming and development
  
  You must also undertake a substantial project where you will apply the skills and knowledge from the taught part of the course to a practical software engineering problem, usually supplied by local businesses or other external clients.
  
  In addition to the compulsory core units, there will be the opportunity to choose a further two optional specialist units from fields such as:
  
  -Computer graphics
  -Artificial intelligence
  -Computer assisted learning