Queens College

The following notes discuss users of a requirements document, guidelines for writing requirements, use cases for the Mentcare system, and requirements checking.

The following notes discuss how non-functional requirements for the user audience are functional for Mentcare, types of nonfunctional requirements, metrics, requirements engineering processes, requirements elicitation, stages, process activities, and requirements discovery,

The following notes discuss Mentcare, prototyping, business requirements key concepts, and stakeholders in the Mentcare system.

The following notes discuss elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, and various errors. In addition, it discusses user requirements and system requirements. Moreover, it discusses key features of the Mentcare system including patient monitoring and administrative reporting as well as system concerns including privacy and safety.

The following notes discuss aspects of elicitation and analysis including interviews, ethnography, user stories, prototyping, and written questionnaires. In addition, it discusses requirements specifications and requirements validation.

The following notes discuss frequently asked questions about software engineering including the key challenges faced, costs used, best software engineering techniques, and differences the web made to software engineering. In addition, it discusses software engineering diversity and application types including batch processing systems, entertainment systems, systems for modeling and simulation, data collection systems, and a system of systems.

The following notes discuss how professional software development differs from that in coursework, some failed and overbudgeted custom software projects, notable software failures, poor design choices, and major attributes of the four distinctive characteristics of software including acceptability, dependability, efficiency, and maintainability, and roles in a software project

The following notes discuss the definition of software engineering, goals, qualities of software that differ from that of traditional "engineered" products, broad and fundamental activities, comments, and reasons to why we need software engineering

The following notes discuss the network layer. It begins by discussing topics that will be covered later in the notes such as packet forwarding, end-to-end communication, the architecture of the Internet, and various routing protocols. In addition, it analyzes what a local area network is in detail. Moreover, it discusses the Internet Protocol which laid the foundation for communication across the network. Furthermore, it discusses classful addressing, classless interdomain routing (CIDR), the s...

The following notes discuss the data link layer, the second layer of the OSI model. It describes the functions of the data link layer. In addition, it compares and contrasts two sublayers of the OSI model, which are the logical link control layer and the media access control layer. Moreover, it analyzes VLANs, MAC addresses, Ethertype, frame types, switches, duration, etc.