ECE 361: Software Engineering and Large System Design

• Instructor Info
• Textbook
• Grading
• Schedule

Instructor Info

Instructor: Carl Sable
e-mail: CarlSable.Cooper@gmail.com
Office: Room 614

Textbook

"Software Engineering: Theory and Practice, 4th Edition"
Pfleeger and Atlee

Grading

• Programming Project: 50%
• Group Presentation: 10%
• Quiz #1: 10%
• Quiz #2: 10%
• Quiz #3: 10%
• Quiz #4: 10%

Schedule

The schedule will be updated as the semester progresses.

• Wednesday, January 20
  Topic: Course Introduction
  Topic: Rules of SET
  Topic: Project Description
• Thursday, January 21
  Topic: The Basics of Software Engineering
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 1
• Wednesday, January 27
  Topic: Overview of Java
• Thursday, January 28
  Topic: The Development Process
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 2
• Wednesday, February 3
  Topic: Overview of Java (cont.)
• Thursday, February 4
  Topic: The Development Process (cont.)
• Wednesday, February 10
  Topic: Eclipse
  Topic: Javadoc
  Topic: Project Management
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 3
• Thursday, February 11
  Topic: Project Management (cont.)
  Topic: Capturing the Requirements
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 4
• Wednesday, February 17
  Topic: Swing Overview
  QUIZ #1
• Thursday, February 18
  Topic: Capturing the Requirements (cont.)
• Wednesday, February 24
  Topic: Virtual Machines, Servers, and SSH Tunneling
  Topic: Subersion and Subversive
  Topic: Capturing the Requirements (cont.)
• Thursday, February 25
  Topic: System Design
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 5
• Wednesday, March 2
  Meetings with Project Groups
• Thursday, March 3
  Topic: System Design (cont.)
  Topic: Designing the Modules
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 6
• Wednesday, March 9
  Topic: Databases Overview
• Thursday, March 10
  Topic: Designing the Modules (cont.)
• Wednesday, March 23
  Topic: Designing the Modules (cont.)
  Topic: Programming
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 7
• Thursday, March 24
  Topic: JDBC, JSP, and MySQL
• Wednesday, March 30
  Topic: JDBC, JSP, and MySQL (cont.)
  QUIZ #2
• Thursday, March 31
  Topic: Unit and Integration Testing
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 8
• Wednesday, April 6
  Topic: System Testing
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 9
  Topic: System Testing (cont.)
  Topic: Delivery
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 10
• Thursday, April 7
  Topic: Maintenance
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 11
• Wednesday, April 13
  Topic: JUnit
  QUIZ #3
• Thursday, April 14
  Topic: Evaluating Products, Processes, and Resources
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 12
• Wednesday, April 20
  Topic: Javascript
  Topic: XML
• Thursday, April 21
  Topic: Evaluating Products, Processes, and Resources (cont.)
  Topic: Improving Software Organizations
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 13
• Wednesday, April 27
  Topic: The Future Of Software Engineering
  Suggested reading: P&A, Ch. 14
  QUIZ #4
• Thursday, April 28
  Group Presentations
• Wednesday, May 4 (Rm. 104, 10 am - 1 pm)
  PROJECT DEMOS