IT643 — Software Design and Testing | Lecture Index

Instructor: Ankush Chander  |  Institute: DA University

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Overview

This course covers the foundations of software engineering in the post-LLM era — from requirements discovery through design, testing, and deployment. Each lecture is available as Markdown (for reading) and as Slides (for presentation).

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Lecture Map

Module 1: Requirements Discovery

• 0: Software Engineering in post LLM era
• 1: Requirement Engineering
• 2: Elicitation & Stakeholder Interactions

Module 2: Taming Complexity

• 3: Deep modules vs Shallow modules
• 3b. Complexity: measured on your own code
• 4: Refactoring
• 5-6: Smells in the data

Module 3: Testing

• 7_8: Unit testing fundamentals & the AAA framework
• 9_10: Choosing what to test, and what makes a test good
• 11_12: Testing with external dependencies: test doubles
• 13_14: Testability and design
• 15_16: Test code quality

Module 4: Design beyond a class

• 17_18: SOLID Principles
• 19_20: The data model
• 21_22: Component principles
• 23: Architecture: boundaries

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Prerequisites

• Basic understanding of how software systems work
• Familiarity with at least one programming language
• No prior formal software engineering training required

Reference Texts

1. Ian Sommerville — Software Engineering (Chapters 3–5 for this block)
2. Suzanne \& James Robertson — Mastering the Requirements Process (Volere method)