Syllabus for UCLA Computer Science 130, Fall 2014.
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
  10-02			introduction
  10-03			requirements gathering (in discussion)
  10-07	1, 3–3.4	1, 4	requirements engineering
  10-09	(Read homework.)		initial project meeting (in lecture)
  10-10			initial project organization (in discussion)
  10-14	2, 21	2–3	software process models
  10-15			requirements homework due on CCLE
  10-16		5, 10	system modeling and engineering
  10-21	3.5	6, 18, 28	architectural design
  10-23	4, 5, 6	7, 17, 19	component-level design
  10-28	7–11		routines and names
  10-30	20	24, 25	quality and change management
  11-04			midterm (in lecture)
  11-06	22, 29	8	testing
  11-07			midterm presentations (in discussion)
  11-13	28	22	project management
  11-18	3.6, 27	23	project planning
  11-20		11–14	dependability and security
  11-25	23–26, 31	9, 15.2–15.5	debugging, refactoring, and tuning
  12-02	30	15.1, 27	tools and formal methods
  12-04	32	29, 30	user interface and documentation
  12-08			project final report due (on CCLE)
  12-09	33–35	16, 26	reuse and process improvement
  12-11	(Read Burns 2013.)		legal aspects
  12-12			final presentations (in discussion)

• The final exam is the time scheduled by the registrar.
• Chapters of McConnell omitted from the course, but still good reading, are 12–19 (data types and control).
• Chapters of Sommerville omitted from the course, but still good reading, are 20 (embedded software) and 21 (aspect-oriented software engineering).