Weekly Guide: CS314 Software Engineering (Spring 2016)

Computer Science Department

Plans are much more tentative later in the semester.

CS 314 Syllabus
CS 314 Class Session Blog
This course will be taught using Canvas this semester. Here is a link to the Canvas login. Look for this course under your Canvas Courses drop down menu.

Week 1. Jan 17-23. Introduction, Life as a software engineer.

Week 2. Jan. 24 - 30. Software Process, Agile Development, Code Inspection.

Class sessions: January 25, 27, & 29, 2016.
Quiz 0, Parts A, B, and C (3 separate short quizzes): course prerequisites on Canvas, due 11:55 PM on Monday January 25.
Quiz 1: Pre-Inspection Quiz on Canvas, due 11:55 PM on Tuesday January 26.
Notes 1.
Notes 2;
Assignment 0, Due Jan. 27 Part A: hardcopy due in class, Part B: submit on Canvas 1/26/16 by 11:55 PM on 1/27/15.
Design Studio 1: Inspection, preparation and pre-class quiz (on canvas) due Tuesday 1/26/16, design studio activites in class 1/27/16. Post-class retrospective writing due 1/28/16 on Canvas.
Reading: Text Ch 1 and 2.

Week 3. Jan. 31 - Feb 6. UML Modeling, JUnit.

Week 4. Feb 7-13. UML Modeling; User Stories; Verification and Validation.

Class sessions: February 8, 10, & 12.
Design Studio 2: User Stories, Feb. 8.
Notes: Notes 2, .
Reading: Text Ch. 5 and 6.
Notes 3.
Junit Introduction Notes.
See Text Ch. 15, Appendix A, sec. A.1 (pp. 533-537) for an introduction to UML Class Diagrams.

Week 5. Feb 14-20. Verification and Validation.

Week 6. Feb. 21 - 27. Structural testing.

Class Sessions: February 22, 24, & 26.
Notes 3.
Structural (White Box) Testing Notes from Profs. Ghosh and France.
Q3 Pre-DS3: BBTesting Quiz on Canvas, Due Feb. 23.
Design Studio 3: Black Box Testing in class on Wednesday, Feb. 24.
Text Ch. 8 Implementation (pp. 240-294); pp. 258-269 is focused on software testing.
Structural Testing Notes (from Profs. Ghosh & France).

Week 7. Feb. 28 - March 4. Midterm Review, Exam 1, Intro to Design.

Class sessions: Feb. 29, March 2 & 4.
Reading: See readings posted for weeks 1-6 (above); review course notes, assignments, quizzes, and discussions.
Exam 1 Review Notes.
Exam 1: Wednesday March 2.
Notes 4: Design & Architecture.

Week 8. March 6-12. Intro to Assignment 4.

*** Spring Break. March 15-21 ***

Week 9. March 20-26. Software Architecture and design. Android Development.

Class Sessions: March 21, 23, & 25.
On Monday, Saksham Manchanda will talk about Android programming and interfacing with Git.
Notes: Notes 4
Text: Ch 12 Using Design Patterns (pp. 446 - 477)

Week 10. March 27 - April 2. Android, Software Architecture, and Software Requirements.

Week 11. April 3-9. Software Requirements, Introduce A5, User Interface Design

Class sessions: April 4, 6, & 8.
Monday (April 4): Design Studio 5 - Team Planning Meeting for Assignment 5.
Wednesday, April 4: Guest speaker on User Interface Design: Geri Georg User Interface Notes
Reading for User Interface Design: Text Ch. 13 Focusing on users and their tasks (pp. 478-508).
Notes: Notes 5: Requirements Analysis and Domain Modeling.

Week 12. April 10-16. Use Case Analysis, Domain Modeling.

Week 13. April 17-23. Requirements: Domain Modeling, Software Safety.

Week 14. April 24 - 30. Review, Exam 2, Software Safety

15 Week 15. May 1-7. Software safety, Team Demos, Review.

Class sessions: May 2, 4, 6.
Team Demonstrations of A5 solutions: Volunteer to show off your solution to Assignment 5 in class on Monday, May 2 or Friday, May 6.
Notes 6: Software Safety
Design Studio 7 on software safety is scheduled for Wednesday May 4. Read the Therac-25 report to prepare.
Friday, May 6: (Voluntary) Demonstrations of Assignment 5: enhanced Adventure Game by the following teams:
- iCUP
- TeamVenture
Review and retrospective

Week 16 Final Exam Week.