Course Goals:

Course Textbooks:

1. Carlo Ghezzi, Mehdi Jazayeri, Dino Mandrioli. Fundamentals of Software Engineering, Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition, 2002, ISBN: 0133056996.


2. Frederick P. Brooks. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering , Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995, ISBN: 0201835959.

Topics to be Covered:

• Introduction to Software Engineering
• Project Management and Configuration Management
• Project Planning
• Team dynamics
• Software Validation and Verification
• Requirements
• Software Modeling and Design
• Software Process and Life cycle
• Software Maintenance
• Introduction to Software Product Lines
• Ethics in Software Engineering

Course Pre-Requisite:

CSCE 310

Course Expectations:

• There will be 3 one hour lectures per week. In addition students should expect to spend 6 additional hours per week on reading, study and projects.

Course Policies:

• All Assignments will have clearly marked due dates and penalties.
• No make-up exams will be given unless arranged with the instructor in advance or a written medical excuse is provided.
• You will have one week from the time the grades are available to challenge a grade on an assignment, or exam. After that, challenges are not accepted.

The grading for the class will be as follows:

• Pre-requisite Test 2%
  
  • Friday August 25th
• Individual Programming Assignment - 10%
  
  Tentative Due Date:
  • Monday, September 18th
• Class participation 5%
• Team Project 35%
  Tentative Due Dates:
  • Deliverable I: Monday, September 11th
  • Deliverable II: Wednesday, October 25th
  • Final Project Implementation Due: Friday, December 1st
  • Team Presentations: Week of December 4th (dead week*)
• MMM Presentation 5%
  • Week of October 4th
• Two In Class Exams - 10% each
  
  Tentative Dates:
  • Friday September 29th
  • Monday November 6th
• Final Exam - 23% Thursday December 14th, 10:00 - noon.