Syllabus for UCLA Computer Science 130, Winter 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. Chapters 27–30 are only on the web.
• Lectures (this is preliminary and may change):

  	chapters to read before class
  date	McConnell	Sommerville	Topics
  01-04			introduction
  01-06	1, 2, 21	1–3	software process models
  01-07			initial project meeting (in discussion section)
  01-11	3–3.4	4	requirements engineering
  01-13		5, 10	system modeling and engineering
  01-18	3.5	6, 18, 28	architectural design
  01-20	4, 5, 6	7, 17, 19	component-level design
  01-21			requirements spec homework meeting (in discussion section)
  01-25	7–11		routines and names
  01-27	20	24, 25	quality and change management
  02-01	22, 29	8	testing
  02-03			midterm
  02-04			requirements spec due (on CourseWeb)
  02-08	28	22	project management
  02-10			midterm presentations I
  02-11			midterm presentations II (in discussion section)
  02-15	3.6, 27	23	project planning
  02-17		11–15	dependability and security
  02-22	14–19		control
  02-24	23–26, 31	9	debugging, refactoring, and tuning
  03-01	30	27	tools and formal methods
  03-03	32	29, 30	user interface and documentation
  03-08	33–35	16, 26	reuse and process improvement
  03-08			project final report due (on CourseWeb)
  03-10			final presentations I
  03-11			final presentations II (in discussion section)

• The midterm is Thursday, 2010-02-03, 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).