Software Engineering (Quality) with Co-op – (M.Sc.)

Software has become an increasingly important element in many products being developed today. There has been a change in development costs from hardware development to software solutions. This increases the need to develop software with the right functionality, quality, on time and within budget.

Master Programme in software engineering with specialisation in quality is designed to meet these challenges by educating software developers in advanced concepts in software engineering as covers the entire development chain, from management's perspective to the technical and development perspectives. The master's programme focuses in particular at aspects of quality in software development and the programme is highly focused at the students to gain practical experience through work placements as part of the programme.

The programme is for two years and organised around a group of mandatory and elective courses, as well as major elements of work-integrated learning (ie company placements and courses in higher education with major practical elements, captured directly from industry). Already in mandatory courses is in large parts focused on quality aspects in software development, although the general courses is also given in order to secure a range of students. The elective courses provide students with the opportunity to specialise in certain areas, but always with a specialisation, in order to thus contribute to increasing their attractiveness of future employers in a way as the student chooses. All courses is designed to offer a blend of latest practice in collaboration with companies. This is strengthened further by the fact the Institute has active research in all the mandatory course subjects.

One of the ideas with this program is tie businesses; students and higher education closer together and continually improve content. The Institution hopes that all three parties benefit from this cooperation.

One credit point is equivalent to one point in European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).

Learning outcomes
In addition the nationally regulated goals, which can be found in paragraph 8, the following goals apply for the education.
After completion of the programme the student will:

* Know and understand the global challenges in large-scale development of software technology.
* Know and understand the overall current practice in large-scale development of software technology.
* Know and understand in detail the aspects of quality in software development.
* Master the skills needed to adapt and apply existing practice in a given situation in software development.
* Master the skills needed to plan, monitor and evaluating quality of jobs in software development in an industrial scale.
* Master the ability to critically evaluate challenges and proposed solutions of large-scale development, identify strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for improvement.
* Master the ability to independently conduct an investigation in the field.

Job Profiles
Student with a degree from the programme can amongst other things work in all branches where software development takes place with following types of tasks: requirement specification, project management, design, implementation and verification and validation. Focus may be on pure quality aspects. The programme is especially interesting for students who want to work in large software projects.