Software Engineering

Spring 2004; CMSC 435; Section 0201

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Note that many of the lecture slides have been adapted from Sommerville's web-site.

Jan. 27 & 29: Introduction I

	First class
	Introduction to Software Engineering
	What is software engineering? Why is it important?
	The software lifecycle
	Software process models
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapters 1 & 3
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Feb. 3 & 5: Tools I

	Project Overview & Tools
	JavaDoc JUnit
	Handout (JavaDocCheatSheet.doc)

Feb. 10: Introduction II

	"How Microsoft builds software", Michael Cusumano and Richard Selby, Communications of the ACM, vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 53-62, June 1997.
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Feb. 12: Requirements I

	Software Requirements
	Requirements Engineering Processes
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapters 5 & 6
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Feb. 19: Usability evaluation

LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Feb. 24 & 26: Requirements II

	Formal Specification
	Preconditions/Postconditions
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapters 9
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Mar. 2 & 4 & 8: Design I

	Architectural Design
	Object-oriented Design
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapters 10 & 12
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Mar. 11: Formal Sprcifications

	PDDL
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Mar. 16 & 18: Testing I

LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Mar. 30: Testing II

	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)
	GUI Testing
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)
	Reading: "Hierarchical GUI Test Case Generation Using Automated Planning", Atif M. Memon, Martha E. Pollack and Mary Lou Soffa, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 144-155, Feb. 2001.
	Reading: "Coverage Criteria for GUI Testing", Atif M. Memon, Mary Lou Soffa and Martha E. Pollack, , 8th European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and 9th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-9), Vienna University of Technology, Austria, Sept. 10-14, 2001.

Apr. 1: Test Oracles

	Reading: "Automated Test Oracles for GUIs", Atif M. Memon, Martha E. Pollack and Mary Lou Soffa, , Eighth International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE’2000), San Diego, CA, Nov. 6-10, 2000.
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Apr. 6: THE .NET PLATFORM -- A TUTORIAL

	Announcement (Click here)
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Apr 8: Design II

	User-interface Design
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapters 15
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)
	Distributed Systems Architectures
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapter 11
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Apr. 13: Design III & Static Verification and Validation

	Component-based Design
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapter 14
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)
	Readings Inspections Reading: "What makes inspections work?", Adam Porter and Larry Votta, IEEE Software,Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov. 1997
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapter 19
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Apr. 15: Project Management & Evolution

	Reading: Sommerville - Chapter 4
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)
	Software Maintenance Configuration Management
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapter 27 & 29
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Apr. 20

Apr. 22: TerpSpreadSheet Presentation

Apr. 27: TerpManager Presentation

Apr. 29: TerpWord Presentation

May 4: TerpPresent Presentation

May 6: TerpCalc Presentation

May 11: TerpPaint Presentation

May 14: Final Exam