CSC 308, Winter 2015, Gene Fisher

CSC 308, Winter 2015
Gene Fisher

General Index:

lectures -- lecture notes, as presented in class

handouts -- various informational handouts, discussed in class

examples -- project examples, excerpts of which discussed in class

textbook -- more detailed discussion of material in lectures & handouts

doc -- documentation for tools

bin -- directory of executable tools

grades -- project milestone evaluations (requires password to enter)

Items of Near-Term Interest:

Schedule for Friday week 10 -- final project presentations
--REVISED-- executable jar file for the Spest specification checker, and brief instructions for its use
Final exam overview and sample
milestones 7-8 writeup -- gui prototyping; continued work on formal specification
milestone 9 writeup -- oral presentation
milestone 10 writeup -- final project delivery
Milestone 8 example -- what the milestone 8 deliverable should look like, in particular the prototype
Milestone 10 example -- what the milestone 10 deliverable should look like, in particular the final requirements and model specification

Index by Week:

Week 1:

course syllabus -- introductory description of the course
projects list -- list of course projects we will undertake this quarter
milestone 1 writeup -- team formation, related systems search
requirements specification document outline -- overview of the format and contents of the document that each project team will produce this quarter
svn basics -- basic commands for using the concurrent version control system (SVN)
unix basics -- basic commands for file and directory access in UNIX
lecture notes weeks 1 and 2 -- introduction to software engineering, requirements analysis, and specification

Week 2:

standard operating procedures, volume 1 -- introduction to the projects directory structure and the standard procedures for updating project data files
milestone 2 writeup -- initial work on functional requirements
milestone 2 example -- initial rough draft of Section 2 of the requirements specification document
requirements document standards -- standard file and HTML structure for requirements documents
conventions for a standardized GUI -- graphical user interface (GUI) convections
html basics -- basic introduction to the WWW hyper-text markup language (HTML)
lecture notes week 3 -- details of the requirements analysis process

Week 3:

milestones 3-4 writeup -- continued work on functional requirements; initial work on model specification; public requirements walkthroughs; initial round of requirements inspection testing
Excerpt from the milestone 6 example [ HTML , PDF ] -- a companion to lecture notes 3, showing a completed scenario

Week 4:

milestones 3-4 writeup -- continued work on functional requirements; initial work on formal specification; public requirements walkthroughs; initial round of requirements inspection testing
standard operating procedures, volume 2 -- procedures for requirements inspection testing
java as an abstract modeling language -- overview of the CSC 308 modeling language
lecture notes week 4 -- introduction to requirements modeling
milestone 4 example -- what the milestone 4 deliverable should look like

Week 5:

lecture notes week 5 -- details of requirements model derivation and refinement

Weeks 6 and 7:

milestones 5-6 writeup -- continued work on functional requirements and formal specification
lecture notes weeks 6 and 7 -- introduction to fully formal specification

Week 8:

milestones 7 and 8 writeup -- gui prototyping; continued work on functional requirements and formal specification
Lecture notes week 8

Weeks 9 and 10:

lecture notes weeks 9 and 10 -- review of milestone deliverables requirements for file and edit commands modeling idioms non-functional requirements

Week 9:
lecture notes week 9 -- requirements for file and edit commands; non-functional requirements

Week 10:

milestone 9 writeup -- oral presentation
milestone 10 writeup -- final project delivery
lecture notes week 10, part 2 -- more on prototyping in the software process; software process assessment; the future of software engineering

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