Design principles; design approaches; use of architectures and frameworks; applying design patterns; documentation standards; quality analysis and security issues.

Data design and modeling for transactional and analytical systems; the use of relational and object databases; database security issues; database performance issues; and data access.

Test levels (unit, integration and system); test objectives testing techniques, measures and process (planning, test case generation and defect tracking)

Web application testing with an emphasis on modern tools and approaches; unit, system, integration testing; performance and load testing; security testing; cross-browser issues; accessibility and usability.

Data structures including binary search trees, priority queues, hash tables, and heaps. Recursion, sorting, and run-time analysis using big-O notation.

Object-oriented principles including abstraction, encapsulation, and support for re-use. Object-oriented design essentials: contractual design, containment, composition, inheritance, overloading and polymorphism. Design variants, and their short vs long-term impact, emphasized.

Fundamentals of software architecture design, modeling, and analysis. Impact of architectural design choices on quality. Architectural styles, architectural evolution, domain specific software engineering, and software product families.

Requirements and specifications, architecture, design, object-oriented software engineering, software testing and quality assurance, maintenance.

Lectures on engineering discipline, software testing, and code review at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and National Taiwan University.