Information and Computer Science 221A:

Software Engineering

Fall 1997

As Always ... Subject to Change

Administrative Information

Course code: 36615
Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30 - 4:50 PM
Location: CS 259
Class Web Page: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~djr/classes/ics_221.html
Class Email List: 36615-F97@classes.uci.edu
Instructors: the Software Faculty and advanced software graduate students
Primary Instructor: Professor Debra J. Richardson

Electronic Mail: djr@ics.uci.edu (for others, see below)
Office: ICS2 216
Office Hours: Tuesday 1:30 - 2:30 or by appointment
Office Phone: (714) 824-7353

Administrative Assistant (informal): Aileen Broccardo (714) 824-1357
Fax: (714) 824-1715
Mailing Address:

Department of Information and Computer Science

University of California, Irvine

Irvine, California 92697-3425

Overview and Prerequisite Knowledge

From the UCI Catalog:

Study of the concepts, methods, and tools for the analysis, design, construction, and measurement of complex software-intensive systems. Underlying principles emphasized. State-of-the-art software engineering and promising research areas covered, including principles of software engineering, requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and project management.

This class is a graduate survey of software engineering topics. The instructors assume basic background in software engineering as well as some experience in developing software systems. For example, the course assumes knowledge the following basic ideas: software engineering principles (such as abstraction and information hiding), software development phases (e.g., requirements analysis, design, implementation), software development processes (such as the waterfall and spiral models), software design methodologies (such as object-oriented design), software testing and analysis strategies, and project management issues (e.g., chief programmer teams). Students unfamiliar with this area are advised to take ICS 121, as this course will not repeat basic material, but rather will focus on issues at the frontier of software engineering. At the end of the class, students should be knowledgeable about what key problems are currently being pursued by software researchers and what key approaches are being proposed and investigated, as well as be familiar with the work of many of the leading software researchers.

The vehicles for learning about the topics are readings from the textbook, readings from the technical literature, lectures, and classroom discussion. The class is co-taught by the software faculty so that specialty topics may be presented in depth.

Readings

Readings are assigned from the required textbook:

Fundamentals of Software Engineering, by Carlo Ghezzi, Mehdi Jazayeri, and Dino Mandrioli, 1991. Prentice-Hall.

Schedule (Subject to Change)

Date	Topic *Assignment Due*	Instructor	Reading List Papers (+TBD)	Readings from Text	Event/Travel: Absences
30 September	Introduction and Overview	Taylor	[Bro87]	Ch. 1	ICSM: djr,dsr
2 October	Measurement and Evaluation	Redmiles	[Cur80] [CKI88]	Ch. 3	ICSM: djr,dsr
7 October	Software Processes	Rosenblum	[Boe88] [Ost87] [WR93]	Ch. 7, 8	ISSTA PC: djr (late)
9 October	Software Quality and Engineering Principles	Richardson		Ch. 2, 3
14 October	Safety and Legal Issues in Software	Clark Turner (turner@ics)	[Lev86] or [Lev91] [Kan95] [Kan97]
16 October	Requirements Analysis and Specification	Richardson	[Hen80] [HJL96]
21 October	Design, HCI and Design Environments	Redmiles	[PC86] [FGNR92]	Ch. 4
23 October	Software Architectures	Neno Medvidovic	[PW92] [MR97]
28 October	Formal Specification Methods	Richardson	[Par93] [Win90] [Kem90]	Ch. 5	EDCS/CC1: dfr, taylor
30 October	User Interface / Hyperware	Taylor	[TNB+95]		EDCS/CC1: dfr, taylor
4 November	Environments / Interoperability	Taylor	[TM81] [Kad92]		dfr
6 November	CSCW and Workflow	Redmiles	[Gru94] [EN96]	Ch. 9
11 November	Distributed Object Systems	Rosenblum			EDCS/CC2: djr
13 November	Verification and Validation	Richardson	[ABC82] [YT89]	Ch. 6
18 November	Extensible Software Systems Paper Topic Approval Deadline	Franz Richardson	[Fra97a]		Arcadia: djr, rnt, dfr, dsr
20 November	Support for Extensible Systems	Franz	[Fra97b]		Arcadia: djr, rnt, dfr, dsr
25 November	Student Presentations (5 min) Abstracts / Bibliographies due	Richardson Richardson	your abstracts
27 November	Thanksgiving	Holiday
2 December	Formal Analysis and Testing	Richardson	[AG93] [Ric94]
4 December	Component-Based and Regression Testing	Rosenblum	[RH96]		Quest: djr
9 December	Final Exam (4-6 PM)	Richardson
12 December	Term Papers due	Richardson

Assignments and Assessment

Paper/topic summaries: in aggregate, ten topic briefs (due one week after the topic is discussed in class) account for 40% of your grade. For ten (10) topics discussed throughout the quarter and one or more papers assigned for each topic (out of about 16 topics and 15-20 papers) you are required to submit a two-page (appx. 800 word) summary and evaluation brief. The first page should summarize the key points or contributions of the paper(s). The second page should assess the applicability of the paper's ideas to the topic, problems in applying the ideas, remaining issues related to the topic, or provide other critical evaluation of the paper(s) or software topic. For topics in which more than one paper is assigned, you may choose to discuss all papers assigned or focus on a single paper for that topic (but you may not write two separate briefs on one topic). You may combine related topics (covered over more than one lecture) into a single area if you so choose. If for a topic you chose there was no paper assignment, please discuss the lecture in detail.
Term paper/presentation: accounting for 30% of your grade. The term paper is an in-depth exploration of some current topic in software engineering. (The paper must be new for this class, not a revised paper written for some other ICS class.) This paper may be largely survey in nature. Substantial latitude will be allowed in choosing the topic, but all topics must be software-related and approved in advance by the instructor. Each student will present (to the class) a 5 minute overview of their planned paper (during the 9th or 10th week of classes).
Class attendance and participation: accounts for 10% of your grade. Class participation is critical and will share both your experiences and understanding of the class material.
Final exam: worth 20% of your grade. The final exam will ask you to demonstrate your understanding of the papers and topics covered in class as well as software issues in general.

Instructors

Faculty	email
Michael Franz	franz@ics.uci.edu
David F. Redmiles	redmiles@ics.uci.edu
Debra J. Richardson	djr@ics.uci.edu
David S. Rosenblum	dsr@ics.uci.edu
Richard N. Taylor	taylor@ics.uci.edu
Advanced Graduate Students
Neno Medvidovich	neno@ics.uci.edu
Clark S. Turner	turner@ics.uci.edu

Enrolled Students

Name	UCINetId	department email
Joe Balardeta	@uci.edu	jbalarde@ece.uci.edu
Nira Michal Brand	NBRAND@uci.edu	nirab@ics.uci.edu
Yi Cao	CAOY@uci.edu	@ics.uci.edu
Sriram Devanathan	SDEVANAT@uci.edu	@ics.uci.edu
Gosta Forsum	@uci.edu	gosta@ics.uci.edu
Eugene Gendelman	EGENDELM@uci.edu	@ics.uci.edu
Andreas Gerstlauer	AGERSTLA@uci.edu	@ics.uci.edu
Asheesh Khare	AKHARE@uci.edu	@ics.uci.edu
Rohit Khare	ROHIT@uci.edu	rohit@ics.uci.edu
David Ephriam Larkin	DLARKIN@uci.edu	@ics.uci.edu
Ziemwit Lech Laski	ZLASKI@uci.edu	laski@ics.uci.edu
Aniruddha Mitra	AMITRA@uci.edu	@ics.uci.edu
Rajee Nagarajan	@uci.edu	rajee@ics.uci.edu
Rema Natarajan	NATARAJR@uci.edu	@ics.uci.edu
Don Khac Nguyen	DKNGUYEN@uci.edu	@ics.uci.edu
Jayati Prasad	@uci.edu	jprasad@ece.uci.edu
Hans Christian Stadler	@uci.edu	stadler@ics.uci.edu
Jaya Vaidyanathan	JVAIDYAN@uci.edu	jaya@ics.uci.edu
Michael Wang	MJWANG@uci.edu	mwang@ics.uci.edu
Shuqing Zhao	SZHAO@uci.edu	@ics.uci.edu

Department of Information and Computer Science

University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California 92697-3425

djr@ics.uci.edu

Updated Monday, 22 September, 1997