Software Engineering

CSCE 492: Software engineering lab.

1 Software Engineering

What is software engineering?

1.1 Compare

Build yourself a bird house
Build a ten story building.

1.2 Compare

Add another electrical outlet to your room.
Provide all electrical needs for the Coliseum

1.3 Compare

Use dry ice to smoke for a Halloween party.
Produce 5 tons per month of corn syrup.

1.4 Compare

Calculate the biggest number in a file.
Firefox.

2 Overview

One large software project.
Teams of 4-5 students.
No lecture: apprenticeship model.
Weekly group meetings in my office.

3 Grading

See here [1].

3.1 Interview Questions

Write a program that reverses a linked list.
See more examples [2].

3.2 Main Steps

Proposal presentation: handwavy.
Mockup.
Detailed requirements.
Design.
Test Plan.
Proof of concept demo.
Final project.
- Demo
- Writeup: documentation, design, etc.
- Personal assessment.

4 Textbook

Code Complete

Other books I recommend. [3]

5 Project Requirements

A significant software development project.
Software must be functionally complex.
All must contribute about the same.
All must design, program, and test about the same.

5.1 Idea

Bad idea: 3D game using 3D library.
Better idea: 2D game with complex agent behavior, 3D mode scene [4]? board games, network games.

5.2 Idea

Bad idea: Ajax 3-tier application, from scratch.
Better idea: GWT [5], Visual Web Developer (ASP, C#), Google App Engine [6].

5.3 Inspiration

Give back to the USC community. What bugs you?
Try to solve a real problem.
Modified or specialized version of a common application.
Mobile devices.
Think big.

6 Code.Google

code.google.com [7]
svn tutorials [8]
Every document goes in the wiki. Use your digital camera.

7 Other Resources

8 Questions?

The first day checklist [13] tells you what you need to do this week.

URLs

here, http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/csce492/fall08/info.html
more examples, http://programmingquestions.blogspot.com/
Other books I recommend., http://www.librarything.com/catalog/jmvidal&tag=492
mode scene, http://aigamedev.com/discussion/mod-scene-bots
GWT, http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
Google App Engine, http://appengine.google.com
code.google.com, http://code.google.com
svn tutorials, http://delicious.com/jmvidal/svn
Joel on Software, http://www.joelonsoftware.com
Coding Horror, http://www.codinghorror.com
The Java Posse, http://www.javaposse.com
Software Engineering Radio, http://www.se-radio.net
first day checklist, http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/csce492/fall08/firstday.html

This talk available at http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/talks/softwareengineering/
Copyright © 2009 José M. Vidal . All rights reserved.

11 August 2008, 01:38PM