Software Engineering

Spring 2003; CMSC 435; Section 0201

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All Lecture Slides - pdf (1, 2, 3)

Note that many of the lecture slides have been adapted from Sommerville's web-site.

Jan. 28 & 30: Introduction I

	First class
	Introduction to Software Engineering
	What is software engineering? Why is it important?
	The software lifecycle
	Software process models
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapters 1 & 3
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Feb. 4 & 6: Tools I

	JavaDoc
	JUnit
	Handout (JavaDocCheatSheet.doc)

Feb. 11 & 13: Introduction II

	"How Microsoft builds software", Michael Cusumano and Richard Selby, Communications of the ACM, vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 53-62, June 1997.
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Feb. 18 & 20: Requirements I

	Software Requirements
	Requirements Engineering Processes
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapters 5 & 6
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Feb. 25 & 27: Requirements II

Formal Specification

Preconditions/Postconditions

Reading: Sommerville - Chapters 9

LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

(PDDL)

	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)
	Handouts (Domain, Problem, Output)

Mar. 4 & 6: Design I & Software Testing I

	Architectural Design
	Object-oriented Design
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapters 10 & 12
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)
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Mar. 11 & 13: Software Testing II

	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)
	GUI Testing
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)
	Reading: "Hierarchical GUI Test Case Generation Using Automated Planning", Atif M. Memon, Martha E. Pollack and Mary Lou Soffa, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 144-155, Feb. 2001.
	Reading: "Coverage Criteria for GUI Testing", Atif M. Memon, Mary Lou Soffa and Martha E. Pollack, , 8th European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and 9th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-9), Vienna University of Technology, Austria, Sept. 10-14, 2001.

Mar. 18 & 20: Software Testing III & Design II

	Test Oracles
	Reading: "Automated Test Oracles for GUIs", Atif M. Memon, Martha E. Pollack and Mary Lou Soffa, , Eighth International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE’2000), San Diego, CA, Nov. 6-10, 2000.
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)
	User-interface Design
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapters 15
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Apr. 1 & 3: Design III & Static Verification and Validation

	Distributed Systems Architectures
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapter 11
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)
	Component-based Design
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapter 14
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)
	Readings
	Inspections
	Reading: "What makes inspections work?", Adam Porter and Larry Votta, IEEE Software,Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov. 1997
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapter 19
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

Apr. 8 & 10: Project Management & Evolution

	Reading: Sommerville - Chapter 4
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)
	Software Maintenance
	Configuration Management
	Reading: Sommerville - Chapter 27 & 29
	LECTURE SLIDES (Click here)

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Apr. 22 & 24:

Apr. 29 & May 1:

May. 6 & 8:

May. 13: