Methods of Software Development : Fall 1999

Schedule

Class	Date	Topic	Subtopic & Reading Note: Readings are due on the day specified	Assignments & Project Events
1	8/24	Introduction: Part I	What are Methods?
2	8/26	Fundamentals and Timeless Concepts	Introduction: Part II [Jackson95b]: take the "The Nature of Software Development "tour [Jacobson+99]: Chapter 1
3	8/31		Abstraction [Liskov75]
4	9/2		Information Hiding [Parnas72]
5	9/7		Evolution of object concepts [Loy89]	Brokerage Frim Case Study Distributed
6	9/9		What makes a good design? and Frames I : Part 1 [Robillard99] [Jackson95b]: take "An Overview" tour	Problem Frames 1 Distributed
7	9/14	Requirements Representations	Frames I: Part 2 [Jackson95b]: take the "Some Aspects of Method, Different Kinds of Description, The System and the World" tours	Problem Frames 1 Due Problem Frames 2 & 3 Distributed
8	9/16		Frames II [Jackson95b]: take "The Technology of Description, Analyzing Problems, and Problem Frames" tours	Problem Frames 2 Due
9	9/21		Frames III [Jackson95b]: take the "Phenomenology and Problem Complexity" tours	Problem Frames 3 Due Problem Frames 4 Distributed
10	9/23		Frames IV [Jackson95b]: take the "Languages and Notations" tour [Jackson+96]: "Problem Decomposition for Reuse"	Note: Problem Frames 4 is Due 9/28
11	9/28		End to End Frames Example	Problem Frames 4 Due Project Assignment Distributed
12	9/30		Parnas Tables [Janicki+94]	Unified Process 1 Assignment Distributed
13	10/5	UML	Intro to UML and the Unified Process [Jacobson+99]: Sections 2.3 all, 2.5 all, 17.2 all, Skim Appendix A and B for UML notation Look at Rational Rose website: http://www.rational.com/products/rose/index.jtmpl	Pick Team Leader for Project by Today Unified Process 1 Assignment Due Unified Process 2 Assignment Distributed
14	10/7		Capturing Requirements as Use Cases [Jacobson+99]: Sections 7.4 through 7.4.3, 13.4 all	Unified Process 2 Assignment Due Unified Process 3 Assignment Distributed
15	10/12		Elaborating Use Cases/ Sequence Diagrams [Jacobson+99]: Chapter 3, Section 9.5.2.2	Unified Process 3 Assignment Due Unified Process 4 Assignment Distributed
16	10/14		System Context and Domain Models [Jacobson+99]: Chapter 6	Project background reading due Unified Process 4 Assignment Due
17	10/19		Relationships Between Use Cases/ Unified Process Workflows [Jacobson+99]: Sections 7.4.5 through end of Chapter 7, 12.6, 14.4
18	10/21		Design Patterns [Rising] http://www.agcs.com/patterns/expertise.htm [Duell] http://www.agcs.com/patterns/papers/patexamples.htm
19	10/26	Project Presentations	First Round of Presentations : Part 1	Project Draft Due
20	10/28		First Round of Presentations : Part 2
21	11/2	Cleanroom	Intro to Cleanroom Software Engineering [Mills+87] STARS: Section 3 (Beginning through 3.1.1, 3.2 notation only, 3.3, 3.9, 3.11, and 3.12)	Evaluation Assignments 1 & 2 Distributed
22	11/4		Introduction to Box Structures [Trammell+92] STARS: skim Section 8 (Beginning through 8.2)
23	11/9		More Box Structures STARS: Section 9 all	Evaluation Assignment 1 Due Cleanroom Assignment Distributed
24	11/11		"Air Sensor for a Smokestack"	Cleanroom Assignment Part 1 Due
25	11/16		Statistical Testing Using Markov Models STARS Section 8.4	Cleanroom Assignment Part 2 Due
26	11/18		Mapping Methods to Process: The Cleanroom Reference Model Linger and Trammel SEI Tech Report, 1996
	11/22			Cleanroom Assignment Part 3 Due
	11/23		NO CLASS
27	11/30	Project Presentations	Project Final Presentations: Part I	Project Final Due
28			Project Final Presentations: Part II
	12/7			Evaluation Assignment 2 Due
	TBA	Final Exam

Note: Software Requirements & Specifications is a lexicon. Collections of articles are referenced by major topic on pages xiii and xiv. Those collections are assigned below.