CS 4310 Software Engineering I

Fall 2006, Class Schedule

All days in red are mandatory. Days in green are holidays

Sep 27: Introduction -- the software process, Software Capability Maturity Model

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• Reading:

· Homework 1

Oct 2: Programming: coding standards, style, metrics, documentation

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• Reading:

Customer Requirements, use cases

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• Reading: Allen Holub's simple case study (Read up to "Submit a mockup to a real user")

Oct 4: Testing

• Reading: Paper on designing effective test cases

Oct 9: Software Architecture I, software layersGroup meeting (2nd half of class)

Oct 11: Software Architecture II, Model-View-Controller architectural pattern

• Reading: Steve Burbeck's original article on the Model-View-Controller architecture

Oct 16: Object-oriented analysis, UML class diagrams, class diagram lab

• Reading: IBM/Rational article on UML class diagrams

Alternate reading for class diagrams

• Reading: Older article on UML class diagrams -- a decent alternative

Oct 18: More on class diagrams, collaboration diagrams, sequence diagrams

• Reading: Sequence diagrams tutorial (by Donald Bell)

Oct 23: Group project meeting

Oct 25: Object-behavior model, UML state transition diagrams

Oct 30: Midterm review

Nov 1: Midterm

Nov 6: Data flow

• Reading: ()

Prototyping

• Reading: Sommerville, ch. 8 slides

Nov 8: User interface design, user guide

Nov 13: Risk management

• Reading: Examples of risk in software projects

Group project meeting

Nov 15: Data design, entity-relationship model

• Reading: Introduction (slides 6-26, 50 are a good intro for entity-relationship design)

Nov 20: Inheritance of interfaceIntroduction to design patterns

Nov 22: Example of UML and design patterns

• Reading: Object mentor example (from Martin and Newkirk)

Group project meeting

Nov 27: Software engineering tools

Nov 29: Law, ethics

Dec 4: Maintenance, reviewing/revising the software process

Dec 6: Presentations

Dec 13: Final exam, 7pm-8:50pm