CSCI 4830/8836: Introduction to Software Engineering

Spring 2015

Meeting time:	MW 12:00-1:15PM
Classroom:	PKI 155
Instructor:	Dr. Harvey Siy
Office:	PKI 281B
Phone:	(402)554-2834
Email:	hsiy at unomaha dot edu
Office Hours:	By appointment (call or email ahead)
Textbook:	Software Engineering (9th edition) by Ian Sommerville, Addison-Wesley, 2010
	Companion website
	link to 8th Edition
Textbook:	Engineering Software as a Service: An Agile Approach Using Cloud Computing (1st edition) by Fox and Patterson, 2014.
	http://www.saasbook.info/home
Optional:	Object-Oriented Software Engineering (2nd edition) by Bruegge and Dutoit, Prentice Hall 2004.
	http://wwwbruegge.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/OOSE/WebHome

Description

The course focuses on the engineering and development of real-world software products. It provides a pragmatic introduction into the fundamentals of software engineering. Basics of software project management are presented and are practiced in the term project.

Learning Objectives

Students who complete this course will:

have knowledge of process, methods, tools used in the software engineering profession,
be familiar with concepts of software engineering project management,
be able to apply the lessons learned to real-world software projects.

Course content:

Overview and motivations
Requirements analysis
Software design
Verification and Validation
Software evolution
Project management
Advanced topics

Lectures

The lecture slides will mostly come from the textbook author's companion website plus a few changes of my own.

The originals can be downloaded from http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~ifs/Books/SE9/Presentations

The updated lecture slides will be posted on Blackboard under Course Documents.

Evaluation

Term Project:	40%
Midterm:	20%
Final:	20%
Quizzes/ Homeworks/ Exercises:	20%

Exam dates

Midterm - March 11
Final - May 4

Graduate student research paper

Students taking the class as CSCI8836 will also be required to submit a 10-15 page, graduate-level research paper. (Please make an appointment to see me within the first two weeks of class to discuss appropriate topics.)

Term Project

The term project is discussed in a separate handout.

Policy on late homeworks

Late homeworks will get a 20% deduction per day, for each day past the due date.

For online submissions, we will follow the time stamp as reported by Blackboard. For example, if the due date is Aug, 24, a submission on Aug. 25 12:01am will get a 20% deduction.

Paper submissions must be handed directly to me on the day it is due.

Academic Integrity

Cheating will not be tolerated for project assignments, exams and other assignments. For formal policies about cheating and plagiarism, consult the UNO Student Policies and Department of Computer Science Policies and Procedures.