Syllabus for UCLA Computer Science 130, Spring 2011.
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
  03-29			introduction
  03-31	1, 2, 21	1–3	software process models
  04-01			initial project meeting (in discussion section)
  04-05	3–3.4	4	requirements engineering
  04-07		5, 10	system modeling and engineering
  04-12	3.5	6, 18, 28	architectural design
  04-14	4, 5, 6	7, 17, 19	component-level design
  04-15			requirements spec homework meeting (in discussion section)
  04-19	7–11		routines and names
  04-21	20	24, 25	quality and change management
  04-26	22, 29	8	testing
  04-28			midterm
  04-29			requirements spec due (on CourseWeb)
  05-03	28	22	project management
  05-05			midterm presentations I
  05-06			midterm presentations II (in discussion section)
  05-10	3.6, 27	23	project planning
  05-12		11–15	dependability and security
  05-17	14–19		control
  05-19	23–26, 31	9	debugging, refactoring, and tuning
  05-24	30	27	tools and formal methods
  05-26	32	29, 30	user interface and documentation
  05-27			final presentations I (in discussion section)
  05-31	33–35	16, 26	reuse and process improvement
  05-31			project final report due (on CourseWeb)
  06-02			final presentations II; legal aspects (read: Kizza JM. Intellectual property rights and computer technology, Texts in Computer Science, Springer, 2010, 103–28)
  06-03			final presentations III (in discussion section)

• The midterm is Thursday, 2010-04-28, in class.
• 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).