CSC640 Fall 2007 Critical Review

CSC 640, Fall 2007, UNCG
In-class Presentations on SW Engineering Article - See Instructions Below List of Articles

Article

Presenter

Date

The Art of Requirements Triage. (Davis, IEEE Computer, Mar. 2003, p.42-49.)

10/23

The Ups and Downs of Object-Oriented System Development. (Johnson, Communications of the ACM, 43, Oct. 2000, 69-73)

10/23

An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents. (Leveson & Turner, IEEE Computer, 26, July 1993, 18-41)

10/23

Embracing change with extreme programming. (K. Beck,IEEE Computer, 32(10), October 1999, 70-77)

10/30

How is Open Source Affecting Software Development? (D. Spinellis and C. Szyperski, IEEE Software, Jan. 2004, 28-33.)

11/6

The Many Meanings of Open Source (C. Gacek and B. Arief, IEEE Software, Jan. 2004, 34-49.)
11/6

Mission-Critical Development with Open Source Software: Lessons Learned. (J. S. Norris, IEEE Software, Jan. 2004, 42-49.)
11/6

Best Practices in Code Inspection for Safety-Critical Software. (J.R.de Almeida et al. IEEE Software, May 2003, 56-63.
11/13

Legacy information systems: Issues and directions. (J. Bisbal, D. Lawless, B. Wu and J. Grimson,IEEE Software, September/October 1999.

11/13

How to design practical test cases. (T. Yamaura,IEEE Software, 15(6), November 1998.)

11/13

Regression testing in an industrial environment. (A.K. Onoma, W-T Tsai, M. Poonawalaand H. Suganuma, Communications of the ACM, 41(5), May 1998.)

11/20

Testing Object-Oriented Industrial Software without Precise Oracles or Results. (Tse et al., Communications of the ACM, 50(8), Aug. 2007, 78-85)

11/20

Instructions for Presentation

Preparation

Get the paper from the UNCG Library Journal Finder web page. (warning: IEEE Computer is listed there as Computer)
Read the assigned paper. Do not consult other sources of information on the subject. This should be entirely your own work.
Prepare a 20-minute Power Point presentation about the paper. Use the following organization for your talk:

Title slide: Give the full bibliographic reference (author, title, journal, vol., no., date, pages), your name, CSC640, Fall 2007.

Summarize the paper (about 10 slides). You may include graphics from the article.

Evaluation of paper (1 slide):

What methods (case studies, personal experience, opinion, quantitative analysis, rational argument, other?) were used by the author to support the claims? Are the claims adequately supported?

Is the paper well-written and organized?

What are the strengths and weaknesses of the paper?

To whom would you recommend this paper?

The slides should not contain every word that you say! Instead, they should help the audience to organize and visualize the material that you present verbally. You may include outlines, diagrams, graphs, or pictures. Here are some general tips on using slides: