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Software engineering. Historical background. Software crisis. Concept of the technology. Software as a product. Software quality aspects. Software development process. Life cycle models. Software project planning. Risks, risk management. Project management basics. Simple cost models. Scheduling. Requirement analysis and definition. Object oriented software development. Object oriented analysis and design. Unified Process, iterative and incremental development, principles and development phases: inception, elaboration, construction, and transition. UML notation, use case diagram, activity diagram, sequence diagram, communication diagram, class diagram, state chart, package diagram, deployment diagram. Use case modeling. System Sequence Diagram. Use Case Model. Domain Model. Design Class Diagram. Object oriented design patterns. General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns. Design concepts: cohesion, coupling. Quality of design. Verification and validation. Testing. Configuration management. Agile software development. Agile methodologies and agile methods (e.g. SCRUM, Test Driven Development).