Syllabus for UCLA Computer Science 130, Fall 2012.
Software Engineering

• Books:
  • Steve McConnell, Code Complete, 2nd Edition, Microsoft Press (2004), ISBN 0-7356-1967-0. Chapters 1 and 5 are also on the web.
  • Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th edition, Addison-Wesley (2011), ISBN 978-0-13-703515-1. Errata are available. Chapters 1 and 21 are also on the web; chapters 27–30 are only on the web.
• Lectures (this is preliminary and may change):

  	chapters to read before class
  date	McConnell	Sommerville	Topics
  09-27			introduction
  09-28			requirements spec homework meeting (in discussion section)
  10-02	(Read homework.)		initial project meeting (in lecture)
  10-04	1, 2, 21	1–3	software process models
  10-09	3–3.4	4	requirements engineering
  10-11		5, 10	system modeling and engineering
  10-16	3.5	6, 18, 28	architectural design
  10-18	4, 5, 6	7, 17, 19	component-level design
  10-19			requirements homework due on CourseWeb
  10-23	7–11		routines and names
  10-25	20	24, 25	quality and change management
  10-30	22, 29	8	testing
  11-01			midterm (in lecture)
  11-06	28	22	project management
  11-08	3.6, 27	23	project planning
  11-09			midterm presentations (in discussion section)
  11-13		11–15 (except 15.1)	dependability and security
  11-15	14–19		control
  11-20	23–26, 31	9	debugging, refactoring, and tuning
  11-27	30	15.1, 27	tools and formal methods
  11-29	32	29, 30	user interface and documentation
  12-04	33–35	16, 26	reuse and process improvement
  12-05			project final report due (on CourseWeb)
  12-06	(Read papers.)		legal aspects. Read: • Kizza JM. Intellectual property rights and computer technology, Texts in Computer Science, Springer, 2010, 103–28 • Samuelson P. Oracle v. Google: are APIs copyrightable? CACM. 2012;55(11):25–7, doi:10.1145/2366316.2366325 • Goldman E. The problems with software patents. Forbes 2012-11-28 • Gaff BM, Smedinghoff TJ, Sor S. Privacy and data security, Computer. 2012;45(3):8–10 • Boothby WH et al. When is a cyberattack a use of force or an armed attack? Computer. 2012;45(8):82–4
  12-07			final presentations (in discussion section)

• The final exam is the time scheduled by the registrar.
• Chapters of McConnell omitted from the course, but still good reading, are 12 (fundamental data types) and 13 (unusual data types).
• Chapters of Sommerville omitted from the course, but still good reading, are 20 (embedded software) and 21 (aspect-oriented software engineering).