CS682 Software Engineering

Ethan Bolker
Fall, 2009

This is the home page for CS682-683, the project part of the MS capstone course in software engineering.

Catalog description

CS682 Software Development Laboratory I

First half of a two-semester laboratory course in which students, working in small groups, specify, design, implement, and document a large software project.

Introduction

A brief outline of my view of the course - essentially, notes for the first class.

Class list

home pages and email addresses for students enrolled in this class.

Class meetings

Fall: Tu, Th 4:00PM - 5:15PM, M01-0620
Spring: Th, Th 4:00PM - 6:45PM

Schedules

Fall .
Spring . (Check here for deliverable dates.)

Projects:

Chosen:

VisitMe - facebook (Paul English and Joelle Skaff)
Google code site: code.google.com/p/visitme/
Building an evolutionary tree (Brian White)
Google code site: code.google.com/p/tree-buildingsurvey/
See3PO (Tyler Garaas)
Google code site: code.google.com/p/see3po

To consider some other time:

iphone DB query (Kevin Osborn)
NameMedia, Namemedia - Mobile Applications project.pptx
Agile dashboard (Jonathan Krentel)
Heuristic Solutions: www.heuristics.net/
Catalog for Discover Music and Art (Barb Arboleda)
discovermusicandart.com/

Here's the form to rate the potential projects in order to decide which to do.

Project presentations

Presentation for prospective foundation/venture capital funding.

Spring presentation: conveying technical information. April 20, 4:00-6:30, room TBA.

Final poster

Assignments

Texts

Frederick P Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month. Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-83595 Paper. Second Edition. A classic text, updated; still valid.
Amazon will sell you a new or used copy for less than what the publisher or bookstore charges.
You can find the original edition cheaply used at www.abebooks.com. It will probably do.
(Optional) Joel Spolsky, Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity, APress, Berkeley, CA, 2004, ISBN. 1-59059-389-8. Most of this material is available on the Joel on Software web page. But the hard copy is much easier to read.

Grading

A separate grade will be awarded for each of CS682 and CS683. Your grades will be based on a combination of the work done by your group and your individual contribution to that effort.

Some Useful Links

Finding me

My office is in S-3-179, behind the Department office. I will be in my office Tuesday and Thursday when not in class, and usually on Wednesday afternoons (unless there's a meeting I need to go to) and other times I'll post in my .plan. I read and respond to my email (eb@cs.umb.edu) regularly. My office phone is (617)287-6444. You can find my home phone on my .plan. Please use it rarely (for emergencies) and not after 9 PM.

Accommodations

Section 504 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 offers guidelines for curriculum modifications and adaptations for students with documented disabilities. If applicable, students may obtain adaptation recommendations from the Ross Center for Disability Services, M-1-401, (617-287-7430). The student must present these recommendations and discuss them with each professor within a reasonable period, preferably by the end of Drop/Add period.

Student Conduct

Students are required to adhere to the University Policy on Academic Standards and Cheating, to the University Statement on Plagiarism and the Documentation of Written Work, and to the Code of Student Conduct as delineated in the catalog of Undergraduate Programs, pp. 44-45, and 48-52. The Code is available online at http://www.umb.edu/student_services/student_rights/code_conduct.html.

For my own elaboration on the rules concerning the acknowledgment of intellectual debt, particularly appropriate in this course where the focus is on teamwork, see http://www.cs.umb.edu/~eb/honesty.html