Computer Science Department

All CS 314 students need to have a WebCT account which is the same as the eid. Get an eid here if you don't have one.

All lecture notes, assignments, projects and grades will be made available through WebCT. Announcements will be made through the bulletin board in WebCT. You can set up discussion groups and chat-rooms for the course using WebCT. You are responsible for checking WebCT regularly for new announcements, changes, and updates.

Objectives	General Information	Course Materials	Quizzes
Assignments	Projects	Exams	Grading

Prerequisite: CS253 and all the prerequisites for CS253 including CS166 (Discrete Structures) and CS200 (Data Structures).

This course will expose students to techniques used to develop large software systems. Major topics include system and requirements engineering, object-oriented design, and systematic code testing techniques. Students will use CASE tools for many of the topics mentioned below.

The following topics will be covered in the course (not necessarily in the given order):

1. Software product and process
2. Examples of disasters related to "bad" S/W Engineering
3. Implementation, GUI-based application development, coding standards, documentation
4. Software configuration management
5. Software testing
6. Requirements analysis
7. Design
8. Project management
9. Maintenance
10. Metrics

• Required Text: Software Engineering: An Object-Oriented Perspective, Eric J. Braude, Wiley, 2001.
• Reference:
  • Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, Roger S. Pressman, McGraw Hill, 5th Edition.
  • Approach, Java 2: The Complete Reference, Herbert Schildt, McGraw Hill Osborne, 5th Edition.
• Instructor slides will be accessible through WebCT only.
• Textbook slides.

About 10 short quizzes will be given in class throughout the semester. All quizzes will be discussed in class. The goal is to motivate class discussion on the topics to be discussed later. Some quizzes will test your knowledge of material covered earlier. Quizzes are worth 5% of the final grade.

There will be about 4 homework assignments spread out during the semester. Assignments will be made available through WebCT. Each assignment needs to be done individually. Most assignments will involve writing programs and testing. Some will involve using CASE tools. Assignments are worth 25% of the final grade.

You are expected to work in a group of four to develop a software application. You will write a requirements document, a design document and code for the project. The project is worth 20% of the final grade. Project descriptions will be made available through WebCT sometime in October and will be divided into parts that follow the lecture material. You may turn in a draft of each document before the actual due date. This is for your benefit. It gives me a chance to review the document and give you comments for improvement. You will not be awarded points for the drafts. The final project demo will be held in the last week of the semester (before finals week). For every phase of the project, each teammember will do a peer evaluation.

There are two exams: one midterm exam in class (20%) and one final exam (30%) during the final's week.