syllabus.md

Syllabus - Spring 2017

CS1530: Software Engineering

Note that this syllabus is subject to change, but we will cover all of these topics! I may change the ordering based on class/project needs or interests, but these are the topics we will cover.

Required Books

• Freeman/Pryce - Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
• McConnell - Code Complete, Second Edition
• The Mythical Man-Month is available for free online at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mythicalmanmonth00fred
• Building and Testing With Gradle is available for free online at: http://www2.gradle.com/l/68052/2015-01-13/6dm
• A Friendly Introduction to Git by Bill Laboon is available for free online at: https://github.com/laboon/friendly_introduction_git/tree/master/presentation

WEEK 1 (16 and 18 May)

Class 1 - Introduction: What is Software Engineering?

• Software Engineering vs Programming vs Computer Science
• EXERCISE: Group creation (EX1)

Class 2 - Overview: Designing a Software Product

Reading: Brooks, "The Tar Pit" and Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month" (just the titular essay, not the entire book)

• Why is this difficult?
• Overview of the Software Development Life Cycle
• What goes into a software product aside from code?

WEEK 2 (23 and 25 May)

Class 1 - Agile Development: Theory and Practice

__Reading: "Manifesto for Agile Software Development", http://agilemanifesto.org/

• Terminology - Sprints, scrums, kanban, retrospective, etc.

Class 2 - Interacting with Stakeholders and Co-workers

• EXERCISE: Stakeholder interaction (EX2)
• BEGIN SPRINT 1

WEEK 3 (30 May and 1 June)

Class 1 - Intro to Gradle

• Building
• Testing
• Other tasks
• EXERCISE: Pair Programming with Gradle (EX3)

Class 2 - Swing Refresher

• Event-Driven Programming
• Frames and Panels
• Layouts
• Buttons
• EXERCISE: Pair Programming a Swing Application (EX4)

WEEK 4 (6 and 8 June)

Class 1 - Git Exercise

• Reading: A Friendly Introduction to Git by Bill Laboon - https://github.com/laboon/friendly_introduction_git/blob/master/presentation/Git_GitHub_A_Friendly_Introduction.pdf
• Branches and Merging
• EXERCISE: Git 911 (EX5)

Class 2 - First Retrospective / Sprint Planning

• EXERCISE: In-class retrospective and sprint planning (EX6)
• SPRINT 1 ENDS; SPRINT 2 BEGINS

WEEK 5 (13 and 15 June)

Class 1 - Introduction to Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Reading: Freeman/Pryce, Chapters 1 - 3

• TFD / TDD
• The Red-Green-Refactor cycle

Class 2 - Quality Assurance and Quality Software

READING: McConnell, Chapters 20 - 23

• The QA process and why it is important
• QA implementation as part of the SDLC
• Code Reviews
• Code review exercise (EX7)

WEEK 6 (20 and 22 June)

Class 1 - Software Engineering with TDD

Reading: Freeman/Pryce, Chapters 4 - 6

Class 2 - Programming with Concurrency

• Why program with threads?
• Threads vs Processes
• Pitfalls
• Thread-safe programming in Java
• Common patterns and anti-patterns
• SPRINT 2 ENDS; SPRINT 3 BEGINS

WEEK 7 (27 and 29 June)

Class 1 - Concurrency Exercise

• Concurrency exercise (EX8)

Class 2 - Integration and the Software Pipeline

• Classical models of integration
• Continuous Integration

WEEK 8 (4 and 6 July)

Class 1 - INDEPENDENCE DAY - NO CLASS

Class 2 - Software Design

Reading: McConnell, Chapters 4 -5 and Freeman/Pryce, Chapter 7

• Top-down vs bottom-up
• Architecture Models (simple, layered, client-server, n-tier, Big Ball of Mud, etc.)
• SPRINT 3 ENDS; SPRINT 4 BEGINS

WEEK 9 (11 and 13 July)

Class 1 - Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

• Overview of UML
• SOLID Principles
• DRY

Class 2 - Using Design Patterns

_READING: Freeman/Pryce, Chapters 26 - 27

WEEK 10 (17 and 20 July)

Class 1 - Fiat Voluntas Tua - The Power of the Command Line

• Command line exercise (EX9)

Class 2 - Legacy Code, Large Systems, and Working On Other People's Code

OPTIONAL READING: Working Effectively With Legacy Code by Michael Feathers (http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/articles/WorkingEffectivelyWithLegacyCode.pdf)

OPTIONAL READING: Testable Java by Michael Feathers (http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/articles/TestableJava.pdf)

• SPRINT 4 ENDS; SPRINT 5 BEGINS

WEEK 11 (25 and 27 July)

Class 1 - Trade-Offs in Software Engineering

• Cost / Benefit analysis
• Making decisions based on the Iron Triangle
• Examples - Apollo Guidance Computer, Adding Metrics to Web Application
• EXERCISE: Trade-off Discussion (EX10)

Class 2 - Software Craftsmanship

READING: McConnell, Chapters 33 - 34

• Writing good code - maintainable, testable, etc.
• Intellectual humility and avoiding complexity
• Conventions and Abstractions
• Continuous Improvement

WEEK 12 (1 and 3 August)

Class 1 - An Overview of Other Software Engineering Methodologies

Reading: McConnell, Chapters 1 - 3

• Waterfall (BDUF)
• Prototyping
• Incremental
• RAD
• "Cowboy coding"

Class 2 - Presentations

• Each group will present their project (~10 min) to the rest of the class
• SPRINT 5 ENDS