EEC 521: Software Engineering

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Course Schedule

The following is a fairly accurate schedule of how we will proceed through our lectures. We may change the schedule a bit depending of how the class progresses through the material.

Date	Topic	Reading	Homework
25-Aug	Introduction and Course Policies Lecture Slides
27-Aug	Software Product Lecture Slides	Somerville, Ch. 1 Software's Chronic Chrisis No Silver Bullet
1-Sep	Software Process Prescriptive Process Models Lecture Slides	Somerville, Ch. 4 The Push to Make Software Engineering Respectable
3-Sep	Agile Process Models Lecture Slides	Ch. 4 All I really needed to know about Pair Programming I learned in Kindergarten Dispelling the Process Myth: Having a Process Does Not Mean Sacrificing Agility or Creativity
8-Sep	Software Cost Estimation Lecture Slides	Somerville, Ch. 26 An Empirical Validation of Software Cost Estimation Models An Overview of the COCOMO 2.0 Software Cost Model
10-Sep	Requirements Engineering Lecture Slides	Somerville, Ch. 6, 7. Requirements Engineering: A Roadmap
15-Sep	Analysis Modeling - 1 Lecture Slides	Somerville, Ch. 7, 8
17-Sep	Analysis Modeling - 2 Lecture Slides	Somerville, Ch. 8
22-Sep	Classes and Objects; UML Lecture Slides Analysis Modeling Exercises	Somerville, Ch. 8
24-Sep	Specifying Component Behavior Lecture Slides	Ch. 10
29-Sep	Specifications in Spec#	Ch. 10
1-Oct	Midterm 1
6-Oct	Introduction to Software Design Lecture Slides	Iterators Reconsidered Ten Commandments of Formal Methods Ten Commandments of Formal Methods... Ten Years Later
8-Oct	Software Architectural Design Lecture Slides	Ch. 11 Non-Functional Requirements
13-Oct	Object-Oriented Design Lecture Slides	Ch. 14 On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules	Assignment 2 Handout
15-Oct	Design Patterns (Template Method, Strategy) Lecture Slides	Template Method Pattern Code Example Strategy Pattern Code Example
20-Oct	Design Patterns (Factory Method, Abstract Factory, Observer, Iterator) Lecture Slides	Factory Method AbstractFactory AbstractFactory (with error fixed) Observer Iterator
22-Oct	Design Patterns (Decorator, Singleton, Proxy) Lecture Slides	Decorator Singleton Proxy
27-Oct	Refactoring Lecture Slides	Video Store code example Refactored Video Store code example
29-Oct	Aspect-Oriented Programming Lecture Slides	Somerville, Ch. 32 Logging example Fibonacci example
3-Nov	Midterm 2
5-Nov	Aspect-Oriented Programming Aspect J programming	Somerville, Ch. 32 Design Pattern Implementation in Java AspectJ Aspect Association example Observer pattern using Aspects Home Security example Inter Aspect Precedence example Privileged Aspect example
10-Nov	Verification and Validation Lecture Slides	Ch. 22
12-Nov	Black-Box Testing, Junit Lecture Slides	Ch. 23 JUnit Queue Example JUnit BijectivePartialMap Example
17-Nov	White-Box Testing Lecture Slides	Ch. 23 Testing Example
19-Nov	Test generation using Pex
24-Nov	Test generation using Pex
26-Nov	Thanksgiving; Class canceled!
1-Dec	Software Model Checking; Verifying Compiler Grand Challenge Lecture Slides
3-Dec	Course Review; Final Exam handout
8-Dec	Final Exam Due

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