Syllabus for UCLA Computer Science 130, Spring 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
  04-03			introduction
  04-05	(Read homework.)		initial project meeting (in lecture)
  04-06			more initial projects (in discussion section)
  04-10	1, 2, 21	1–3	software process models
  04-12	3–3.4	4	requirements engineering
  04-13			requirements homework (in discussion section)
  04-17		5, 10	system modeling and engineering
  04-19	3.5	6, 18, 28	architectural design
  04-20			requirements homework due on CourseWeb
  04-24	4, 5, 6	7, 17, 19	component-level design
  04-26	7–11		routines and names
  05-01	20	24, 25	quality and change management
  05-03			midterm (in lecture)
  05-08	22, 29	8	testing
  05-10	28	22	project management
  05-11			midterm presentations (in discussion section)
  05-15	3.6, 27	23	project planning
  05-17		11–15	dependability and security
  05-22	14–19		control
  05-24	23–26, 31	9	debugging, refactoring, and tuning
  05-29	30	27	tools and formal methods
  05-31	32	29, 30	user interface and documentation
  06-05	33–35	16, 26	reuse and process improvement
  06-06			project final report due (on CourseWeb)
  06-07	(Read papers.)		legal aspects. Read: • Kizza JM. Intellectual property rights and computer technology, Texts in Computer Science, Springer, 2010, 103–28. • Gaff BM, Loren RA, McCool GJ. Intellectual property, part I, Computer. 2012;45(1):14–6. • Gaff BM, Loren RA, Spinney EA. Intellectual property, part II, Computer. 2012;45(2):9–11. • Gaff BM, Smedinghoff TJ, Sor S. Privacy and data security, Computer. 2012;45(3):8–10.
  06-08			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).