Syllabus for UCLA Computer Science 130, Fall 2013.
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
  09-26			introduction
  10-01	(Read homework.)		initial project meeting (in lecture)
  10-03	1, 2, 21	1–3	software process models
  10-08	3–3.4	4	requirements engineering
  10-10		5, 10	system modeling and engineering
  10-11			requirements spec homework meeting (in discussion section)
  10-15	3.5	6, 18, 28	architectural design
  10-18			requirements homework due on CourseWeb
  10-22	4, 5, 6	7, 17, 19	component-level design
  10-24	7–11		routines and names
  10-29			midterm (in lecture)
  10-31	20	24, 25	quality and change management
  11-05	22, 29	8	testing
  11-07	28	22	project management
  11-08			midterm presentations (in discussion section)
  11-12	3.6, 27	23	project planning
  11-14		11–15 (except 15.1)	dependability and security
  11-19	14–19		control
  11-21	23–26, 31	9	debugging, refactoring, and tuning
  11-26	30	15.1, 27	tools and formal methods
  12-03	32	29, 30	user interface and documentation
  12-04			project final report due (on CourseWeb)
  12-05	33–35	16, 26	reuse and process improvement
  12-06			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).