Software Engineering

Professor:

Christopher D. Gill

Course Description

An introduction and exploration of concepts and issues related to large-scale software systems development. Areas of exploration include technical complexities, organization issues, and communication techniques for large-scale development. Students participate through teams emulating industrial development. The projects cover the principal system development life-cycle phases from requirements analysis, to software design, and to final implementation. Issues relating to real-time control systems, human factors, reliability, performance, operating costs, maintainability and others are addressed and resolved in a reasonable manner.

Resources

There will not be a specific text for this course, but several useful texts are worth considering if you are looking to expand your library:

• Sommerville, Software Engineering, 8th Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2007.
• Hunt and Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer, Addison-Wesley, 2000.
• Beck, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Addison-Wesley, 1999.
• Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides, Design Patterns, Addison-Wesley, 1995.
  (Often referred to as the "Gang of Four" book)
• Czarnecki and Eisenecker, Generative Programming, Addison-Wesley, 2001.
• Meyer, Object-Oriented Software Construction, 2nd Ed., 1997.
• Booch, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, 2nd Ed., 1994.

Discussion Topics	Lecture Material
Course Overview (slides: in ppt format)	Software Requirements: Overview and Motivation (slides: in ppt format)
Project Descriptions from Traffic, Building, Island, and Infrastructure Teams	Software Requirements: Perspective and Definition (slides: in ppt format)
Project Requirements Outlines from Traffic, Building, Island, and Infrastructure Teams	Software Requirements: Processes I (slides: in ppt format)
Teams' Requirements Definition Documents	Software Requirements: Processes II (slides: in ppt format) Software Requirements: Products (slides: in ppt format) Software Architecture: Introduction (slides: in ppt format) Real World Requirements Example (slides: in ppt format)
Common Infrastructure Requirements Draft Document (posted Feb 20)	Software Requirements: Basic Methods I (slides: in ppt format)
	Software Requirements: Basic Methods II (slides: in ppt format)
	Software Requirements: Complex Models and Reviews (slides: in ppt format) Software Architecture: Specification I (slides: in ppt format)
Discussion of Teams' Architecture Specifications Teams' Revised RDD and SRS Documents (for reference): Traffic Team Revised RDD Traffic Team Revised SRS Building Team Revised RDD Building Team Revised SRS Island Team Revised RDD Island Team Revised SRS Infrastructure Team Revised RDD Infrastructure Team Revised SRS	Software Architecture: Specification II (slides: in ppt format)
	Software Architecture: Design I (slides: in ppt format)
Revised Traffic SRS Revised Traffic ASD Traffic Architecture Design Building ASD/Design Building Design Diagram Island Revised ASD/Design Infrastructure Revised SRS Infrastructure Revised ASD Infrastructure Architecture Design Infrastructure Interfaces	Software Architecture: Specification III (slides: in ppt format)
	Software Architecture: Design II (slides: in ppt format) Software Architecture: Design III (slides: in ppt format)
Zip file with teams' prototype submissions Infrastructure Team's web site
	Course Summary: Review of Software Engineering Requirements and Architecture (slides: in ppt format)