CS 501: Software Engineering Fall 1999

9/22/99


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Table of Contents

CS 501: Software Engineering Fall 1999

Administration

What is Engineering?

What is Engineering?

Crafts, Science, Engineering

Crafts, Science, Engineering

Software Engineering as Engineering?

Moore's Law

Moore's Law and System Design

Moore's Law and Parkinson's Law

False Assumptions

Moore's Law and the Long Term

Predicting System Performance

Mathematical Models

Behavior of Queues: Utilization

Utilization: Rule of Thumb

Simulation

Timescale

Measurements on Operational Systems

Serial and Parallel Processing

Example: Performance of Disk Array

Bouncing Ball Diagrams

Reading

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