Computer Science 507
Software Engineering

Spring 2015, The College of Saint Rose

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Agenda

• Welcome!
• Software engineering and its failures
• Course overview, ground rules, syllabus
• Student introductions and backgrounds
  • academic background - courses taken, and where
  • programming languages you know and how well you know each
  • any larger-scale software development you have been involved in
  • anything you are willing to share about your career history and goals, especially as related to software development
• Design project introduction
• Lab 1: Unix Introduction/Refresher and Other Setup [HTML] [PDF] out

Readings and References

The readings for next class are Sommerville Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 and the Brooks paper linked below. Also see the Chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4 presentations on the text's site.

Note: this is a much larger than usual reading assignment and set of questions to answer (see the lab). We do this because you have two weeks before our next meeting and the design project isn't really underway yet. Covering more chapters now will mean fewer readings and assignments later while you need to be focused on your projects.

• Engineering Disasters 13 - Software Failures
• Software Engineering Disaster Hall of Fame
• No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering, F.P. Brooks, IEEE Computer, Vol. 20, No. 4 (April 1987) pp. 10-19.