CS 501 Software Engineering Spring 2003 Syllabus (Subject to revision)

General Information

• Quizzes take place during the normal class periods.  The quizzes test material in the lectures and the items labeled Required Reading.
• Project presentations are scheduled separately.  Everybody must make at least one presentation during the semester.
• Note that some lectures are scheduled for the class time on Wednesday evenings.  Otherwise the time period is reserved for project meetings, but projects can agree to meet at other times.

Week 1: The Process of Software Development 

Background Reading:  Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month. Addison-Wesley, 1972

Week 2: Project Management

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Week 3: Legal Aspects of Software Development

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Week 4: Business / Requirements

Week 5:  Requrements

Required Reading:  Daniel Huttenlocher and Daniel Spoonhower, Principles and Practices of Software Development [Draft.  Please do not circulate.]

Week 6: Requirements

Background Reading:  

Ben Potter, Jane Sinclair, David Till, An Introduction to Formal Specification and Z (Prentice Hall) 1991.
Jonathan Jacky, The Way of Z (Cambridge University Press) 1997.

Week 7: System Architecture

Required Reading:  Mitchell Kapor, A Software Design Manifesto. Dr. Dobbs Journal,  1991. http://hci.stanford.edu/bds/1-kapor.html

Week 8: Design I

Reading:  

Spring Break

Week 9: Design II

Background Reading:  

Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, The Unified Modeling Language. Addison-Wesley 1999. 
Grady Booch, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications, second edition. Benjamin/Cummings 1994. 
Rob Pooley, Perdita Stevens, Using UML Software Engineering with Objects and Components. Addison-Wesley 1999.

Week 10: Reliability

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Week 14:  Risk

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