Course Description | Course Calendar | Grading | Policies | Resources | Project, Assignments, Handouts | Author's Lecture slides |
Prerequisites: Graduate status in Computer Science and satisfaction of all provisional admission requirements for CSC130/230/330 and English proficiency. (This course requires the student to have good object-oriented programming skills in C++ or Java and English language proficiency. The project, assignments, and tests will require analytical skill, communication skill, and programming skill.)
Brief Description: This is a graduate-level introduction to software engineering (SWE), which is the engineering discipline concerned with finding and applying solutions to problems encountered in delivering usable, useful, high quality, large-scale, real-world software systems in a timely and cost-effective manner. The students will learn about SWE by lecture, readings, and by participating in a group software project.
Course Objectives: The overall goal is for the student to learn basic principles of SWE that can be applied to his or her career as a software engineer, or that can be the foundation for futher graduate study.
Topics:
Textbook: Sommerville, Ian. Software Engineering, 7th Ed. Addison-Wesley. Author's web site for book <http://www.sofware-engin.com> contains lecture slides, suggestions for additional further readings, and links to software engineering web sites.
Wednesday | Topic: Textbook chapter - Other Readings - Exams - Due Dates | Other Class Activities |
8/17 | Overview: ch. 1,2,4; Proj Mgt (ch. 5) | |
8/24 | Requirements Analysis (ch. 6, 7), B&D
handout on scenarios & use cases |
handout Code Deliv. I instructions |
8/31 | In-class requirements analysis practice exercise |
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9/7 | System modeling (ch. 8) and finish req. analysis
exercise |
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9/14 | Code Deliverable I due (with demo), go over
Req. Doc. instructions, start lecture on Design (ch. 11) |
handout Req. Doc. instructions |
9/21 | Design: Architecture (ch. 11, 13, 14) |
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9/28 | User Interface Design (ch. 16) |
student reports 750-820 (BS) |
10/5 | Requirements Document due, go over Code Del.
2 instructions In-class UI exercise, Software development (ch. 17) |
handout Code Deliv 2 instructions, student reports 720-820 (JM, RM) |
10/12 | Midterm Exam (ch. 1, 2, 4-8, 11, 13, 14) |
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10/19 | Implementation, Integration, Maintenance (ch.
18, 20, 21) |
student reports 720-820 (RH, KN) |
10/26 | V&V (ch. 22) and guest speaker |
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11/2 | Code Deliverable II due (with demo) |
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11/9 | Testing (ch. 23) |
student reports (720-820) (YB, AA) |
11/16 | Project Management (ch. 25, 26, 27) |
student reports (720-820) (AP, AD) |
11/23 | No class (Thanksgiving holiday) | |
11/30 (last class) | Final project deliverables due (with demo) | |
12/7 | Final exam (same time as regular class) |
Percentage of Grade by Category | Description | Maximum Points |
Project (45%) | Individual contribution to Requirements Document | 15 |
Individual contribution to Code Deliverable
I (with demo) |
10 |
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Individual contribution to Code Deliverable
II (with demo) |
10 |
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Individual contribution to Final project deliverables
(with demo) |
10 |
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Exams (50%) | Midterm |
25 |
Final exam |
25 | |
Report (5%) | Review of SWE article (in-class presentation) | 5 |
Attendance is required. You may be dropped from the course for missing more than two classes.
Distracting/disruptive behavior is not conducive to maintaining a good classroom environment for learning. Engaging in behavior during class such as cell phone use, use of laptops for non-class-related activities, private conversations, arriving late or leaving early (unless you have made arrangements with the instructor), and other non-class-related activities may result in a request to leave the classroom. Persistent behavior of this type may result in being dropped from the course (see UNCG Disruptive Behavior Policy).
Collaboration on the group project is required! However, exams and assignments designated for individual credit are to be the work of the individual student alone. Students are expected to be familiar with and to follow the UNCG Academic Integrity Policy.
Due dates: Late work will not normally be accepted. Make arrangements with the instructor to turn in work early if you will not be in class on the due date.
Missed exams may be taken only if the student's absence has been
excused by the instructor and if the exam is made up on the make-up exam
time announced by the instructor.
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