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Fall Semester 1996
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This was the first semester of SERG. To
get us started, we decided to choose those topics that
our members were most interested in learning about. We
brainstormed for topics and voted over email. Below are
the results of the vote, listed in order from the topics
receiving the most votes to those receiving the least.
This formed the order in which we covered the topics. As
you might guess, this method of selection produced a
hodge-podge set of readings, with little coherence across
sessions. |
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| 6 VOTES |
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- design (OO design, Lampson's
"rules of thumb", checkable redundancy) |
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| 5
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- software development processes (spiral
model, waterfall model, CMM, software lifecycle, product
line)
- risk assessment
- tools and environments |
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| 4
VOTES |
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- software development methods (Jackson
structured design, various "Ayatollah methods",
refinement, experience from the trenches)
- design/engineering of distributed software systems |
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| 3
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- reasoning about programs
(assertions/invariants, specifications, models, analyses,
testing)
- hazard analysis
- maintenance
- requirements (including various "-ilities")
- programming languages from a SE approach
- metrics (cost-estimation, COCOMO, bug prediction,
function points) |
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| 2
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- data abstraction (theory of abstract
data types, homomorphisms, inheritance/subtypes,
encapsulation)
- safety
- management and process
- usability
- models
- evaluation (usability studies, reliability studies,
performance evaluation -- how you can do empirical work
sw eng)
- engineering in general (what is engineering, what do
other discplines mean by it, how does engineering
work/evolve, role of failure) |
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- software architectures
- privacy and protection
- current component technology (Corba, OLE, ...) |
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| 0
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- documentation |