Note that this schedule may change somewhat as the quarter goes on, depending on our progress through the topics, guest schedules, and so on. We expect that the assignment dates will be as shown, however we may change them if events warrant.
| Date | Day | Topic for Discussion in Class | Reading | Homework Assignments and Project Milestones | Notes |
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| Jun 20 | Mon | Course Overview (ppt, pdf) | Find out what the class is about! | ||
| Jun 21 | Tue | ||||
| Jun 22 | Wed | Software Lifecycle Models (ppt, pdf, ink) | RD 7, 20, 21, 25, 35, 36 | Hw1 LCO assigned | One of the quintessential software engineering ideas |
| Jun 23 | Thu | Lifecycle Objectives (LCO) Review
(ppt,
pdf); LCO team meetings |
Boehm | Brainstorming project ideas; Finding a partner to work with; Also use our EPost discussion board to bounce ideas and look for a partner. |
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| Jun 24 | Fri | The Fate of Software Projects, Is Software Different?, Lessons from the History of Software Development (ppt, pdf, ink) |
Putting software development in the context of history and other disciplines | ||
| Jun 27 | Mon | Pitching Project Ideas (ppt, pdf) | Value Proposition | This is advice applicable to your project and, more importantly, to your careers too. | |
| Jun 28 | Tue | Hw1 LCO due before 10pm | All LCO proposal materials are now online for your perusal. | ||
| Jun 29 | Wed | LCO (Project Proposal) Presentations | Project preferences due before 10pm | All teams present their proposals in class; attending guest: Doug Johnson | |
| Jun 30 | Thu | LCO Retrospective; Team Formation Issues (ppt, pdf, ink) |
Hw2 assigned | Project teams announced in class | |
| Jul 1 | Fri | Team Conversations; Lifecycle Architecture (LCA) Review (ppt, pdf) |
Constitutive Conversations of Teams (handout); Boehm |
Teams agree on their success criteria | |
| Jul 4 | Mon | Holiday - Independence Day | Hw3 LCA (specification + design + test plan) assigned | ||
| Jul 5 | Tue | LCO feedback meetings in CSE 624 | |||
| Jul 6 | Wed | Team Environment Issues (ppt, pdf, ink) | RD 11, 12, 13 | Hw2 due before 10pm | "Common sense is not always common practice." -- Steven Covey |
| Jul 7 | Thu | Techniques for Requirements Gathering and Specification (ppt, pdf, ink) | RD 4.2, 10, 14.1, 24, 32, 38; Articles on specifying use cases; Risk Reduction through Prototyping (handout) |
The first from a series of risk management-related techniques used in the lifecycle | |
| Jul 8 | Fri | Usability Design Principles (ppt, pdf) | The Psychopathology of Everyday Things (handout) | ||
| Jul 11 | Mon | Best Practices for Software Design - Part I (ppt, pdf, ink) | Code Complete (2nd ed.), ch.5; Article on design |
"Treat design as a wicked, sloppy, heuristic process..." -- Steve McConnell | |
| Jul 12 | Tue | ||||
| Jul 13 | Wed | LCA (spec + design + test plan) Presentations; LCA/Design Review |
The two teams present their current specs, designs, test plans, and schedules in class; attending guests: Doug Johnson and Gail Alverson | ||
| Jul 14 | Thu | LCA/Design Review (cont.); Best Practices for Software Design - Part II (ppt, pdf, ink) |
Design Smells - The Odors of Rotting Software (handout) | Hw3 LCA due before 10pm, Hw4 assigned |
The really technical design principles that apply to software |
| Jul 15 | Fri | Incremental Releases, Zero-feature Release; One-step Build Process (ppt, pdf, ink) |
The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code,
RD 20, 21, 36; RD 18 |
Discusses deliverables for the zero-feature release and other milestones | |
| Jul 18 | Mon | Unit Testing (tutorial)
(ppt,
pdf,
SomeClass.java,
SomeClassTest.java); Team meetings |
Articles on unit testing | ||
| Jul 19 | Tue | Zero-feature release due before 10pm | |||
| Jul 20 | Wed | Zero-feature release demos/presentations | Peer review #1 due before 10pm | This is the halfway point in the quarter! See the idea behind peer reviews. |
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| Jul 21 | Thu | Zero-feature Release Retrospective; Scheduling, Estimation, and Prioritization (ppt, pdf, ink) |
RD 8, 26 | LCA feedback meetings; Hw4 due before 10pm |
Some of the crucial aspects in project management |
| Jul 22 | Fri | Scheduling, Estimation, and Prioritization (cont.) (ppt, pdf, ink) | RD 9, 14, 28, 29, 32 | LCA feedback meetings | "Adding people to a late project makes it later." -- Fred Brooks |
| Jul 25 | Mon | Midterm exam | See the mailing list for a few practice questions | Midterm sample solutions | |
| Jul 26 | Tue | ||||
| Jul 27 | Wed | Guests: What We Wish We Had Known (ppt, pdf) | Things They Would Not Teach Me of in College... | Hw2 responses due before 10pm | Guests: members of two teams from past quarters -- Jeremy Lingmann / Jason Tan and Peter-Michael Osera / CJ |
| Jul 28 | Thu | Design Patterns and Refactoring (ppt, pdf) | |||
| Jul 29 | Fri | Beta Release Deliverables; Midterm Retrospective and Statistics; Risk Management (ppt, pdf) |
RD 5, 27, 41 | Peer review #1 viewing and usefulness feedback due before 10pm | Midterms have been returned and statistics are available. |
| Aug 1 | Mon | Guest: What Happens over Here and Why You Might Care - A Window into the Test Team (ppt, pdf) | Heuristic Test Strategy Model & Test Plan Building Process | Guest: Jonathan Bach (Quardev Labs) | |
| Aug 2 | Tue | Beta release due before 10pm | |||
| Aug 3 | Wed | Beta release demos/presentations | Peer review #2 due before 10pm; Hw5 assigned |
The two teams present their initial playable releases in class; attending guests: Doug Johnson and Gail Alverson | |
| Aug 4 | Thu | Beta Release Retrospective; Efficient Techniques for Evaluating UI Designs (ppt, pdf) |
Usability Testing with Morae | ||
| Aug 5 | Fri | Guest: Third Party Software (ppt, pdf) | Guest: Gail Alverson (Cray, Inc.) | ||
| Aug 8 | Mon | Efficient Techniques for Evaluating UI Designs (cont.)
(ppt,
pdf); Personality Types (ppt, pdf, ink) |
MBTI Personality Test | Beta release informal feedback meetings during the day | There are many different valid views of the world! Respecting those views that differ from ours allows us to integrate each other's contributions into something bigger. |
| Aug 9 | Tue | Peer review #2 viewing and usefulness feedback due before 10pm. | |||
| Aug 10 | Wed | Final Release Deliverables; Miscommunication Issues (ppt, pdf, ink); Configuration Management (ppt, pdf, ink) |
RD 4.2; Speech Acts (handout) |
Hw5 due before 10pm | Configuration management is a very hard and error-prone problem in practice. |
| Aug 11 | Thu | Robust Programming and Debugging (ppt, pdf) | |||
| Aug 12 | Fri | Software Maintenance, Code Reviews; Influence Diagrams (ppt, pdf, ink) | RD 4.3; Influence Diagrams (handout) |
Hw4 responses due before 10pm | Influence diagrams (a.k.a. Diagrams of effects) are a very useful analysis tool in any domain. |
| Final release due Sunday, Aug 14, before 10pm | |||||
| Aug 15 | Mon | Final release demos/presentations | Peer review #3 due before 10pm | The results of two months' hard work by both teams are now visible. Attending guest: Doug Johnson | |
| Aug 16 | Tue | Final take-home exam assigned (also available in PDF format) | |||
| Aug 17 | Wed | Final Project Retrospective
(ink); Intellectual Property Issues (Part I) (ppt, pdf) |
Hw5 responses due before 10pm; Peer review #3 viewing and usefulness feedback due before 10pm |
The legal domain is not static and some regulations are complex to navigate, so specialists are often needed. Attending guest: Gail Alverson | |
| Aug 18 | Thu | Intellectual Property Issues (Part II)
(ppt,
pdf); Course Retrospective (ppt, pdf) |
Final release informal feedback meetings during the day; Final take-home exam due before 10pm |
See the main take-away points of the course, from the instructor's perspective! | |
| Aug 19 | Fri | Lifelong Learning; Peer Appreciation (ppt, pdf, ink) |
Final take-home exam due before class on paper; Final questionnaire due before 10pm |
Mastery is not a state -- it is a journey. "You can win, you can lose, or you can learn." -- Virginia Satir |
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