Fundamentals of software engineering using a group project as the basic vehicle. Topics covered include managing complexity, requirements specification, architectural and detailed design, testing and analysis, software process, and tools and environments.
The class meets three times a week for lectures and once for section. We will be reading from the text and other papers, and there will be a few individual homeworks and larger group projects. There will be a final exam.
The required textbook is Rapid Development, S. McConnell, ISBN 1-55615-900-5