Course Syllabus

Homepage: http://sierra.se.cs.cmu.edu/STARS/

People

Instructors	E-mail	Office
Bernd Bruegge	bob+@cs.cmu.edu	WeH 4123, 268-2567
William Scherlis	wls+@cs.cmu.edu	WeH 5220, 268-8741
Coaches
David Garmire	garmire+@andrew.cmu.edu
Tom Hawley	hawleyt+@cs.cmu.edu
Grace A Ritter	gritter+@cs.cmu.edu
Pooja Saksena	saksena+@andrew.cmu.edu
Eric Stein	es5f+@andrew.cmu.edu
Zia Syed	smzia+@cs.cmu.edu
Secretary
Dorothy Zaborowsky	daz+@cs.cm.edu, Mo-Fri	WeH 4116

Aside from office hours and weekly project meetings please feel free to stop by and make individual appointments.

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, a student should be able to:

• Understand the difference between a program and a software product.
• Apply model-based software engineering techniques.
• Understand iterative and incremental development.
• Reconstruct the analysis and design information in an existing software system.
• Design and implement a module that will be integrated into a larger system.

Each student will have demonstrated the ability to

• Work as a member of a project team, assuming various roles as necessary,
• Create and follow project plans and test plans,
• Create the full range of documents associated with software products,
• Complete a project on time.

Administrative Matters

Meeting Times

First class: Tuesday, Aug 24, 1999

Class meetings: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00 - 10:20

• Hammerschlag B103

Project Meeting: Weekly arranged by each team.

Client Acceptance Test: Dec 9

Textbook

Required :

Bernd Bruegge, Allen Dutoit: "Object-Oriented Software Engineering: Conquering Complex and Changing Systems". The first chapters are online and the book is due to be published in October.

Optional Readings

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• [Gamma 96] E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson, J. Vlissides: "Design Patterns", Addison-Wesley, 1996
• [Jacobsen 92] I. Jacobson, M. Christerson, P. Jonsson, G. Övergaard, "Object-Oriented Software Engineering" Addison Wesley, 1992
• [Booch 91] Grady Booch, "Object-Oriented Design with Applications", Benjamin Cummings, 1991. Ch. 1.
• [Pfleeger 91] Sharie Pfleeger, "Software Engineering: The Production of Quality Software", MaxMillan Publishing Company, 1991. Ch. 9, 10 and 11.
• [Otte 1996] "Understanding CORBA, The Common Object Request Broker Architecture", Prentice Hall, 1996
• [Kayser 90] T. A. Kayers, "Mining Group Gold", Serif Publishing, 1990.
• [IEEE 828] IEEE Standard for Software Configuration ManagementPlans, ANSI/IEEE Std. 828-1990.
• [IEEE 1058] IEEE Standard for Software Project Management ANSI/IEEEStd.1058.1-1987.

Additional papers may be selected. Copies for readings are provided during the course.

Computing

The facilities in the Software Engineering Lab in Building D 154A are available only for the use in this course. In addition to the standard CS NT/Linux environment and six iMacs many tools and applications specific for this course will be used. Please check http://sierra.se.cs.cmu.edu/STARS/docs/computerLab.html in the 15-413 web site for an accurate listing.

Grading

Process and Products (40 Points)	Equal weight is given to each of the following activities and/or associated documentation: Project plan, requirements analysis (domain model, analysis object model), system design, object design, implementation, testing, user manual, installation guide, posting meeting agenda & minutes. The documentation has to be developed in cooperation between technical writers and software developers.
Communication (5 Points)	For a presentation given during one of the project reviews (analysis review, client review, object review, dry-run, acceptance test) or group meetings.
Delivery (20 Points)	If a complete product (working code and complete documentation) with negotiated functionality is delivered to the client.
Homework (20 Points)	4 points for each of 5 homeworks.
Quiz (15 Points)	1 point for each quiz on main points of reading at the beginning of each class (except project review classes).
Instructors' evaluation (+/-10 Points)

Standards

• A: 90+
• B: 75-89
• C: 56-74, including at least 20 points fromlectures and 40 points from project
• D: 40-55, or 56-74 with wrong proportion of lectureand project points
• R: less than 40

Course Schedule

The course schedule will be updated as we progress through the semester. Check for the most up to date class schedule in the 15-413 home page.