Syllabus for UCLA Computer Science 130, Winter 2014.
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
  01-06			introduction
  01-08	(Read homework.)		initial project meeting part 1 (in lecture)
  01-10			initial project meeting part 2 (in discussion)
  01-13	1, 2, 21	1–3	software process models
  01-15	3–3.4	4	requirements engineering
  01-17			requirements spec homework meeting (in discussion)
  01-22		5, 10	system modeling and engineering
  01-27	3.5	6, 18, 28	architectural design
  10-18			requirements homework due on CourseWeb
  01-29	4, 5, 6	7, 17, 19	component-level design
  02-03	7–11		routines and names
  02-05			midterm (in lecture)
  02-10	20	24, 25	quality and change management
  02-12	22, 29	8	testing
  02-14			midterm presentations (in discussion)
  02-19	28	22	project management
  02-24	3.6, 27	23	project planning
  02-26		11–14	dependability and security
  03-03	23–26, 31	9, 15.2–15.5	debugging, refactoring, and tuning
  03-05	30	15.1, 27	tools and formal methods
  03-10	32	29, 30	user interface and documentation
  03-11			project final report due (on CourseWeb)
  03-12	33–35	16, 26	reuse and process improvement
  03-14			final presentations (in discussion)

• The final exam is the time 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 20 (embedded software) and 21 (aspect-oriented software engineering).