COMP 4081: Introduction to Software Engineering

COMP/EECE 4081: Software Engineering

Fall 2011 • Dr. Scott D. Fleming, Instructor

Part I: Overview of Software Engineering
Tue Aug 30	Overview
Thu Sept 1	Process Reading: Pfleeger Sidebar 1.1 (pg 6), § 1.3, 1.5–1.8 Due: Your Vision Statement
Tue Sept 6	Wrap up* Vote for your favorite vision statement by midnight on Wednesday!
Part II: Waterfall process with prototyping
Thu Sept 8	Requirements Reading: Pfleeger § 4.1–4.4 Project Teams now assigned! Due before lecture: HW1: SE Overview (submit via Dropbox)
Tue Sept 13	Diagram Notations Reading: Pfleeger § 4.5–4.6
Thu Sept 15	Paper Prototyping Reading: Prototyping for Tiny Fingers Reading: Overview of paper prototyping Reading: Discussion about risk Video: Demonstration of paper prototyping
Tue Sept 20	Evaluating Requirements Reading: Pfleeger § 4.7–4.10 Due before lecture: HW2: Requirements (submit via Dropbox)
Thu Sept 22	Requirements Evaluatuion Day (for HW3) Book a room at the UC's Technology Hub (901.678.3323). Update! I'm told that you must go to the tech hub and reserve a room in person. Teams, review your HW2 requirements definition with your customer, and test your paper prototype (as per HW3 instructions).
Tue Sept 27	Architecture Reading: Pfleeger § 5.1, 5.4–5.5, 5.7 Due before lecture: HW3: Req. Evaluation (submit via Dropbox)
Thu Sept 29	Evaluating Architecture Reading: Pfleeger § 5.3, 5.9–5.10
Tue Oct 4	Team meeting day! Meeting room: Dunn Hall 249 2:40–3:20pm: Patient Connector 3:20–4:00pm: Hacker Attacker 4:00–4:40pm: Foreign Language Assistant
Thu Oct 6	OO Design Overview Reading: Pfleeger § 6.2–6.4, 6.8 Practice questions on OO design (solutions)
Tue Oct 11	Midterm and Design Practice Day! Here are some midterm practice questions. Here are some design practice questions. We will go over the answers to these questions only in class, so don't skip!
Thu Oct 13	Midterm Exam The midterm will cover everything through analysis (but not design) Here is an old midterm exam with answers Due before lecture: HW3.5: Requirements Analysis (submit via Dropbox) Explanation of the HW3.5 grading
Tue Oct 18	Fall Break (no class)
Thu Oct 20	Design Patterns Reading: Pfleeger § 6.5–6.6
Tue Oct 25	Schedule and Effort Reading: Pfleeger § 3.1–3.4, 3.7 Schedule and effort practice problems Due by midnight: HW4: Architecture (submit via Dropbox)
Part III: Extreme programming process
Thu Oct 27	Agile Overview Reading: Pfleeger § 2.1–2.2, Sidebar 4.2 (p. 145) Reading: Entire Agile Manifesto website Due by 8am on Monday: Your Updated Vision Statement (submit via Dropbox) Vote for your favorite updated vision statement by noon on Tuesday! Look for the voting form under Surveys.
Tue Nov 1	Customer Collaboration Reading: Entire XP website Reading: Entire Agile process website Video: Planning Game demonstration Due by 9am Wed: HW5: Implementation design (submit via Dropbox) Updated Project Teams now assigned!
Thu Nov 3	Working Software (Testing) Reading: Pfleeger § 8.1–8.3
Tue Nov 8	Team meeting day (in Dunn Hall 300) Due before lecture: HW6: User stories and set-up (submit via Dropbox) 2:40–3:20: Team Cancer Therapy (+ client) 3:20–4:00: Team Final Word (+ client) 4:00–4:40: Team Natural Disaster (+ client)
Thu Nov 10	Subversion (SVN) activity day Slides: SVN Simple Example Book: Version Control with Subversion Subversion cheat sheet TortoiseSVN Windows client (integrates with Windows File Explorer; watch out for misleading "Download Now!" ads) SCPlugin Mac Subverion client (integrates with Finder)
Tue Nov 15	Individuals and Interactions Reading: Pfleeger Sidebar 5.1 (p. 230) Reading: When is it not XP? Reading: Misconceptions about XP
Thu Nov 17	Continuous Improvement Link: Eclipse refactoring actions
Tue Nov 22	Team meeting day (in Dunn Hall 300) Due before lecture: HW7: First implementation (submit via Dropbox) 2:40–3:20: Team Final Word (+ client) 3:20–4:00: Team Natural Disaster (+ client) 4:00–4:40: Team Cancer Therapy (+ client)
Thu Nov 24	Thanksgiving Holidays (no class)
Tue Nov 29	OO Design Revisited
Thu Dec 1	Professionalism Reading: Quinn § 7 Reading: Engineering professionalism Reading: ACM/IEEE code of ethics
Tue Dec 6	Team Presentations and Final Exam Review Due by midnight on Wed Dec 7: HW8: Second implementation (submit via Dropbox) See updated presentation instructions! Here are some final exam practice questions (and answers) Also, don't forget about the practice questions from previous lectures!
Thu Dec 8	Study Day (no class) Final extra-credit opportunity: You may complete one of the following extra-credit assignments to earn up to 10 additional homework points. Both assignments are due by the end of the day (Thu 8 Dec). Extra credit choice #1: R.E.M. evaluation study (link: https://dna13.memphis.edu/REM) Extra credit choice #2: Your idea essay
Tue Dec 13	Final Exam: 1:00–3:00pm

* By "wrap up", I mean that I will (1) finish any lecture material that didn't fit into the preceding few class meetings, (2) take questions, (3) give you time to work on homework, (4) sometimes let you work on extra credit, and (5) sometimes give you surprises.

So don't skip class on "wrap up" days!