Course: PSU CS 300 - Software Engineering (Fall 2010)

Weekly outline

General
28 September - 4 October
Getting Started
Tuesday: Course mechanics, goals; SE principles
Thursday: Initiating a software project
Reading: Schach 1, 2.1-2.8
5 October - 11 October
Personal Project Management
Tuesday: Planning and executing a software project
Thursday: Dev tools, featuring SCMS
Reading: Schach ch 5.1-5.6
12 October - 18 October
What To Build
Tuesday: Gathering software requirements
Thursday: Analyzing software requirements
Reading: Schach ch 10
- 3: Gathering and Specifying Requirements File
19 October - 25 October
How To Build It
Tuesday: High level design
Thursday: Detailed design
Reading: Schach ch 7, 13
- 4-1. High Level Design File
- 4-2. Detailed Design File
26 October - 1 November
Build It
Tuesday: Software tools
Thursday: Software construction
Reading: Schach ch 14, 5.7-5.9
- 5-1: Coding Tools File
- 5-2: Coding File
2 November - 8 November
Bugs
Tuesday: Debugging and Root-Cause Analysis
Thursday: Testing
Reading: Schach ch 15
9 November - 15 November
Stuff
Tuesday: Guest Lecture: Marcus Roberts, Puppet Labs
Thursday: Veteran's Day, no class
Reading: Schach ch 6
16 November - 22 November
More on V&V
Tuesday: System V&V
Thursday: Inspection
Reading: Schach ch 8
- 8-1: System V&V File
- 8-2: Inspection File
23 November - 29 November
Software Quality
Tuesday: Software Quality
Thursday: Thanksgiving, no class
- 9-1: Things I see In student code URL
30 November - 6 December
Review and Discussion
Tuesday: More on coding
Thursday: Deployment and Maintenance