ECE 361: Software Engineering and Large System Design

• Instructor Info
• Textbook
• Grading
• Schedule
• Project

Instructor Info

Instructor: Carl Sable
e-mail: CarlSable.Cooper@gmail.com
Office: Room 461

Textbook

"Software Engineering: Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition"
Pfleeger and Atlee

Grading

• Programming Project: 50%
• Test #1: 25%
• Test #2: 25%

Schedule

The schedule will be updated as the semester progresses.

• Wednesday, January 21:
  Topic: Course Introduction
• Thursday, January 22:
  Topic: Project Description
• Wednesday, January 28:
  Topic: Overview of Java
• Thursday, January 29:
  Topic: Overview of Java (cont.)
• Wednesday, February 4:
  Topic: Overview of Java (cont.)
• Thursday, February 5:
  Topic: The Basics of Software Engineering
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 1
  Topic: The Development Process
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 2
• Wendesday, February 11:
  Topic: Project Management
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 3
• Thursday, February 12:
  Topic: Eclipse
  Topic: Subersion and Subclipse
• Wednesday, February 18:
  Topic: Javadoc
• Thursday, February 19
  Topic: Capturing the Requirements
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 4
• Wednesday, February 25
  Topic: System Design
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 5
• Thursday, February 26
  Topic: Databases Overview
• Wednesday, March 4
  Topic: Object-Oriented Development
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 6
• Thursday, March 5
  Topic: JDBC, JSP, and MySQL
• Wednesday, March 11
  Topic: Programming
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 7
• Thursday, March 12
  MIDTERM
• Wednesday, March 25
  Topic: Unit and Integration Testing
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 8
• Thursday, March 26
  Meetings with groups in my office
• Wednesday, April 1
  Topic: System Testing
  Suggesetd reading: P&A, Ch. 9
• Thursday, April 2
  Lecture from visiting faculty candidate
  Topic: Delivery
  Suggesetd reading: P&A, Ch. 10
• Wednesday, April 8
  Topic: Maintenance
  Suggesetd reading: P&A, Ch. 11
• Thursday, April 9
  Topic: JUnit
• Wednesday, April 15
  Topic: Evaluating Products, Processes, and Resources
  Suggesetd reading: P&A, Ch. 12
• Thursday, April 16
  Meetings with groups in my office
• Wednesday, April 22
  Topic: Improving Software Organizations
  Suggesetd reading: P&A, Ch. 13
• Thursday, April 23
  Topic: JavaScript
  Topic: XML
• Wednesday, April 29
  Topic: The Future of Software Engineering
  Suggesetd reading: P&A, Ch. 14
• Thursday, April 30
  FINAL EXAM
• Wednedsay, May 6
  Programming Projects Discussed
• Thursday, May 7
  Programming Projects Demoed