Description: Software engineering is the application of theories, methods and tools to the specification, design, creation, verification/validation, deployment, operation, and maintenance of software products. This course provides an overview of the engineering methods, processes, techniques and measurements used in the software industry. After completing this course, students will have gained some experience with these concepts, should be able to explain the advantages and disadvantages of different methods/processes/techniques/measurements, and should be able to apply them in a variety of different situations.

Textbook: The primary textbook for this course is (the draft version of)

Fox, C. and D. Bernstein (2016) Software Engineering .

which is being made available to you in electronic form.

Outline: This course is organized as follows (though specific topics and dates may change).

Readings are listed in the right-most column.

Topics to Understand Completely Before the First Meeting
Basics	Classes , Enumerated Types , Exceptions , Specialization , Abstract Classes and Interfaces
Polymorphism	Through Inheritance and Through Interfaces
Input/Output (I/O)	File System Basics and I/O Basics
Reference Types	Objects and Arrays
Other Topics	Packages and Collections
Labs to Complete Before the First Meeting
Eclipse Skills	Editing [Lab] , Debugging[Lab] and Unit Testing (and Coverage)[Lab]
Part I: Software, Software Engineering and Software Processes
8/20	Introduction , About CS345 , Systems and Modeling	FB 1
8/22	Activity Diagrams
8/25	Software Processes/Process Models	FB 2 and FB 3
8/27	Software Quality and Last Minute Questions on H1	FB 4
Part II: Product Design
8/29	Overview , Needs , Requirements , Requirements in a Non-Incremental Process and Requirements in an Incremental Process	FB 5
9/1	Recording Requirements: User Stories , Use Cases and Structured Text
9/3	User Interface/Interaction Design	FB 6
Part III: Engineering Design
9/5	Overview and Engineering Design Principles	FB 7
9/8-9/10	Design Patterns - Iterator , Singleton , Factory , Composite , Observer and Strategy
9/12	Architectural Styles
9/15	Exam 1
Part IV: Implementation/Construction
9/17-9/19	Aside: Windowing Basics , Layout Basics , Intermediate Layout and Using GUI Components
9/22	GUI Construction[Lab]
9/24	Managing Code & Documentation and Git	FB 8
9/26	Verification , Debugging and Refactoring	FB 9 and FB 10
Part V: Deployment, Support and Maintenance
9/29	Deployment , Deployment Diagrams , Support and Maintenance	FB 11
Part VI: Project Management
10/1	Project Management and Risk Management	FB 12
10/3	Measures of Software Size and Time and Cost Estimation	FB 13
10/6	Scheduling: Overview , Critical Path Methods and Gantt Charts	FB 14
10/8	Performance Tracking and Time Value of Money	FB 15
10/10	Exam 2
Part VII: Final Project
10/13	Git[Lab]
10/15	Sprint 1 Planning Meeting
10/17	Sprint 1 Planning Meeting (cont.)
10/20	Sprint 1 Daily Scrum and Serialization[Lab]
10/27	Sprint 1 Daily Scrum and GUI Modification[Lab]
10/29	Sprint 1 Daily Scrum
10/31	Sprint 1 Review (with Product Owner) and Sprint 1 Retrospective (without Product Owner)
11/3	Sprint 2 Planning Meeting
11/5	Sprint 2 Planning Meeting (cont.)
11/7	Sprint 2 Daily Scrum and Executable .jar Files[Lab]
11/10	Sprint 2 Daily Scrum and Internationalization[Lab]
11/12	Sprint 2 Daily Scrum
11/14	Sprint 2 Review (with Product Owner) and Sprint 2 Retrospective (without Product Owner)
11/17	Sprint 3 Planning Meeting
11/19	Sprint 3 Planning Meeting (cont.)
11/21	Sprint 3 Daily Scrum
12/1	Sprint 3 Daily Scrum
12/3	Sprint 3 Daily Scrum and Course Evaluations
12/5	Sprint 3 Daily Scrum
12/10	Sprint 3 Review for Section 3 (10:30-12:30) and Sprint 3 Review for Section 4 (3:30-5:30)

Grading: Final grades will be based on your performance on: 2 in-class exams (30% each) , several homework assignments (20% total) and 1 team project (20% total).

Team Project: Each student must complete a (team) project.

Overview

Teams must use the software development process called scrum. The sprints are scheduled as follows.

Sprint 1: 10/15-10/31
Sprint 2: 11/1-11/14
Sprint 3: 11/15-12/10

A Team Evaluation Form (which will be made available to you just before the project ends) must be completed and submitted by each member of the Team individually by 12/11 at 11:00PM. Make sure you read and understand all of the policies related to projects.

Homework Assignments: 8 homework assignments will be assigned during the semester. Note that their due dates are subject to change.

Make sure you read and understand all of the policies related to homework assignments. Homework assignments may not be submitted after the due date/time (in other words, you will receive a grade of 0 on any one that is not submitted on time).

Office Hours: You may meet (either face-to-face or virtually, depending on the situation and schedule) with Prof. Bernstein during his scheduled office hours or you may schedule an appointment with him.

Contact Information: Prof. Bernstein's contact information is available on the contact page of his WWW site.