Syllabus for UCLA Computer Science 130, Spring 2016.
Software Engineering

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• 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, 10th edition, Addison-Wesley (2015), ISBN 978-0-13-394303-0. Errata are available. Chapters 1, 12, and 19 are also on the web; chapters 26–31 are only on the web.
• Lectures (this is preliminary and may change):

  	chapters to read before class
  date	McConnell	Sommerville	Topics
  03-28			introduction
  03-30	(Read homework.)		initial project meeting A
  04-01			requirements gathering (in discussion)
  04-04			initial project meeting B
  04-06	1, 3–3.4	1, 4	requirements engineering
  04-08			initial project organization (in discussion)
  04-11	2, 21	2–3	software process models
  04-12			requirements homework due on CCLE
  04-13		5, 19, 20	system modeling and engineering
  04-18	3.5	6, 17, 28	architectural design
  04-20	4, 5, 6	7, 16, 18	component-level design
  04-25	7–11		routines and names
  04-27			midterm (in lecture)
  05-02	20	24, 25	quality and change management
  05-04	22, 29	8	testing
  05-05			midterm presentations (in discussion)
  05-09	28	22	project management
  05-11	3.6, 27	23	project planning
  05-16		10–14	dependability and security
  05-18	23–26, 31	9	debugging, refactoring, and tuning
  05-23	30	27	tools and formal methods
  05-25	32	29, 30	user interface and documentation
  05-31			project final report due (on CCLE)
  06-01	33–35	15, 26	reuse and process improvement
  06-03			final presentations (in discussion)

• 06-03 (the last day of instruction) is the drop-dead date for all assignments.
• The final exam is the time and place 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 21 (real-time software engineering) and 31 (aspect-oriented software engineering).