CS451: Software Engineering

Professor: Yuanfang Cai

E-mail: yfcai AT cs DOT drexel DOT edu

Office: University Crossings 104

Phone: 215-895-0298

Teaching Assistant: Sunny Wong

E-mail: sh84 AT drexel DOT edu

Office: University Crossings 147

Office Hours: Thursday 2pm-4pm or Friday 12am-2pm

Introduction

The topics to be covered in the course include: software development process, project management, scheduling, planning, requirement capture and analysis, configuration management, architectural design, object-oriented design, programming practices, and application generation.

Objectives

Understand major software engineering concepts
Understand how industrial-strength software gets developed
Understanding software development processes
Being able to plan, execute, and manage small software projects
Being able to use major software project management tools
Being able to solicit, analyze, and document software requirements

Prerequisites

Understanding object-oriented programming concepts
Being able to program using Java
Understand UML modeling techniques
CS 270, Math 221, CS350
Being able to work in groups

Textbooks

"Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach" 6th Edition, by R.S. Pressman

"The Mythical Man Month" by F. Brooks.

Reference book:

"An Integrated Approach To Software Engineering" by P. Jalote

Grades

Participation (10%)
Homework/Quiz (20 %)
Midterm (20%)
Group Project/Labs (30%)

-Having a running program (10%)

-Requirement specification (10%)

-Quality of other documents and project management (10%)

Final Exam (20%)

Announcements

Announcements will be posted on the announcements page.

Ethics - we take this very seriously

Any violation of the usual standards of computer ethics by students in CS 451 will result in immediate dismissal from the class and a formal record being filed with the University administration. Violations include but are not limited to: stealing passwords, breaking into systems by exploiting known security holes, causing flippant and irrelevant mail to be sent or received, sending intentionally and malicious anonymous e-mail, and tampering with system files or the files of others.

Term Schedule

Content Assignment Due Dates

week 1 1/6/2009 Class Info

1/8/2009 OO Introduction

week 2 1/13/2009 Software Processes HW 1

1/15/2009 Software Processes and Project Management

week 3 1/20/2009 Project Management HW 1 Due

1/22/2009 Lab 1: Project Management Lab 1 Due

week 4 1/27/2009 Requirement Analysis HW 2

1/29/2009 Requirement Modeling

week 5 2/3/2009 Requirement Specification HW 2 Due

2/5/2009 Lab 2: Project Requirement Lab 2 Due

week 6 2/10/2009 Peer Review

2/12/2009 Midterm

week 7 2/17/2009 Software Design HW 3

2/19/2009 Software Design

week 8 2/24/2009 Lab 3: Design Lab 3 Due

2/26/2009 Software Architecture HW 3 Due

week 9 3/3/2009 Testing Techniques HW 4

3/5/2009 Junit

week 10 3/10/2009 Lab 4: Testing Lab 4 Due

3/12/2009 Lecture HW 4 Due

week 12 Final Exam (TBD)

Please note that the schedules are subject to change.

Note: Late assignment/project submissions are subject to penalty: 12% each day. Assignments turned in more than three days late cannot be accepted and receive a score of 0. Make-up submissions will only be allowed in extreme circumstances.