Engineering Quality and Security in Software

Catalog description

Software systems are becoming an integral part of our daily life. In many domains the failure of a software system in not acceptable. Such a failure will have catastrophic effects. Hence, the quality of such software systems becomes so crucial. This course introduces software quality, the associated quality factors, software errors and the software quality assurance system. As software systems advance in complexity so does the threats that they face. Hence, the security of these systems has become so essential. Traditionally, security has been thought off as an add-on to an existing system. In this course, students will understand that this is not sufficient. Students will learn to consider security throughout the development process by extending the traditional software development life cycle and UML. For the requirements phase, this course will teach students to collect secure requirements, perform security requirements planning, and perform vulnerability mapping. For the design phase, this course will teach students to design a secure software architecture and perform architectural risk analysis. For the implementation phase this course will introduce students to secure coding. For the testing phase, the course will introduce students to secure testing. Finally students will be introduced to secure deployment and secure maintenance. A semester long team-based project will be part of this course to practice the concepts covered in the class.