Syllabus for UCLA Computer Science 130, winter 2018.
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
  01-08			introduction
  01-10	(Read homework.)		initial project meeting A
  01-12			requirements gathering (in discussion)
  01-17			initial project meeting B
  01-19			initial project organization (in discussion)
  01-22	1, 3–3.4	1, 4	requirements engineering
  01-24	2, 21	2–3	software process models
  01-26			requirements homework due on CCLE
  01-29		5, 19, 20	system modeling and engineering
  01-31	3.5	6, 17, 28	architectural design
  02-05	4, 5, 6	7, 16, 18	component-level design
  02-07	20	24, 25	quality and change management
  02-12			midterm (in lecture)
  02-14	22, 29	8	testing
  02-21	28	22	project management
  02-23			midterm presentations (in discussion)
  02-26	3.6, 27	23	project planning
  02-28		10–14	dependability and security
  03-05	23–26, 31	9	debugging, refactoring, and tuning
  03-07	30	27	tools and formal methods
  03-12	32	29, 30	user interface and documentation
  03-13			project final report due (on CCLE)
  03-14	33–35	15, 26	reuse and process improvement
  03-16			final presentations (in discussion)

• 03-16 (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 7–19 (routines, names, 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).