Syllabus for UCLA Computer Science 130, Winter 2010.
Software Engineering

• Books:
  • Steve McConnell, Code Complete, 2nd Edition, Microsoft Press (2004), ISBN 0-7356-1967-0.
  • Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, 7th edition, McGraw Hill (2010), ISBN 978-0-07-337597-7. Please see the winter 2009 syllabus for the corresponding (but somewhat obsolescent) readings from the 6th edition.
• Lectures (this is quite preliminary and most likely will be revised):

  	chapters to read before class
  date	McConnell	Pressman	Topics
  01-05			introduction
  01-07	1–4	1–2.2	basic construction and design
  01-08			initial project meeting (in discussion section)
  01-12	21	2.3–3	software process models
  01-14		4–5	requirements engineering
  01-19		6–7	requirements modeling
  01-21		8–9	architectural design
  01-26	5–6	10, 12	component-level design
  01-28	20	14–16, 22	quality and change management
  01-29			requirements spec homework meeting (in discussion section)
  02-02	22, 29	17–19	testing
  02-04			midterm
  02-05			requirements spec due (on CourseWeb)
  02-09	23–26		debugging, refactoring and tuning
  02-11	28	23–25	management and metrics
  02-12			midterm presentations (in discussion section)
  02-16			more midterm presentations
  02-18	27	26–28	project estimating and scheduling
  02-23	7–9, 31–32		routines; defensive programming
  02-25	10–11, 17–19		names and control
  03-02	30	11	user interface design; software tools
  03-04		21, 30	formal methods; process improvement
  03-09	33–35	29, 31–32	reengineeering and looking ahead
  03-09			project final report spec due (on CourseWeb)
  03-11			final presentations I
  03-12			final presentations II (in discussion section)

• The midterm is Thursday, 2010-02-04, in class.
• The final exam is the time scheduled by the registrar, namely, Wednesday, 2010-03-17, 08:00–11:00.