Computer Science Department

CS 514: Software Product and Process Evaluation, Fall 2013
On-campus and Distance Learning Sections

The first day of "class" is Monday August 26. Be ready to start then.

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• Instructor: Prof. James M. Bieman.
  • Biography
  • Voice: (970) 491-7096, Fax: (970) 491-2466, Email: bieman(at)cs.colostate.edu
  • U.S. Mail: Computer Science Dept., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
  • Office location: 462 Computer Science Building
  • Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2PM - 3:15PM Colorado (Mountain) Time. Students are free to schedule other times to meet with me.
• GTA for Fall 2013: Chengyu Fan
  • Voice: (970) 491-2556 Fax: (970) 491-2466, Email: chengyu(at)cs.colostate.edu
  • U.S. Mail: Computer Science Dept., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
  • Office hours: TBA.
• Syllabus.
• Preliminary Course Schedule. (draft --- subject to change). Find an updated and detailed schedule on the course RamCT page.
• Prerequisites. CS 414 (and by transitivity CS 314), or consent of instructor. Students are expected to know the basics of software engineering as taught in an undergraduate course, have experience in designing and debugging object-oriented software, and have a basic understanding of object modeling notations such as UML, OMT, and/or Booch. Students are expected to have the basic background of the undergraduate core of computer science, which includes discrete math (sets, graphs, first-order predicate calculus), data structures, operating systems, and basic probability and statistics.
  Note on CS 414 as a prerequisite: Officially CS 414 is a prerequisite. However, I accept CS 414 as a corequisite, since CS 514 depends on material from CS 414 primarily during the last half of the course which covers testing object-oriented systems. That means that you can enroll in CS 514 if you have already taken CS 414 or are taking CS 414 while enrolled in CS 514. You must have taken CS 314 or an equivalent software engineering course.
• Course Materials:
  • N. Fenton and S. Pfleeger. Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach 2nd Edition. PWS Publishing, 1997. Boston. Int. Thompson Computer Press. ISBN: 0-534-95600-9, or 0-534-95425-1. Note: This text is now out of print. However, the author has made the necessary material from the text available electronically. It will be posted via the course RamCT site.
  • P. Ammann and J. Offutt. Introduction to Software Testing. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, ISBN 0-52188-038-1, 2008.
  • Course Notes: Available on the course RamCT site.
  • Optional Reference Texts:
    • D. Hubbard. How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business, 2nd Edition. Wiley, 2010. ISBN: 0-470-53939-9.
    • R. Binder. Testing Object-Oriented Systems: Models, Patterns, and Tools. Addison-Wesley, 1999. ISBN: 0-201-80938-9