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Course

CSC 510 introduces students to the discipline of developing useful and high-quality software-based systems. Students will be exposed to the techniques needed for the practice of effective software engineering as well as the skills required to succeed as a software professional.

See the Syllabus for details on classroom policies and evaluation.

Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to accomplish the following objectives:

• Implement software engineering practices in a team project.
• Identify practices related to software process.
• Decide how to test a system and measure coverage.
• Compare and contrast design techniques and architectural patterns.
• Measure the quality of software code.
• Build tools for supporting software engineering tasks.
• Evaluate evidence related to a software practice.
• Identify configuration management practices for improving maintanance of software
• Apply deployment practices and patterns.

Students are expected to gain practical exposure to tools, processes, and principles of software engineering through hands-on projects while understanding models and research ideas behind the tools and processes. Lectures will include workshop style learning experiences, where students get to work on a problemset and receive feedback from the instructor and other classmates.

Slack

Schedule

The following schedule is subject to change.

Class	Topics	Resources	Assignments
Aug 18	Agile Processes		HW0
Aug 23	Bootcamp: Basics
Aug 25	Bootcamp: REST		HW1
Aug 30	Bots
Sep 1	Workshop: Slack bot
Sep 6	Design		MILESTONE: DESIGN
Sep 8	Workshop: Design roundtables
Sep 13	Architecture Patterns
Sep 15	Patterns, APIs, Frameworks		HW2
Sep 20	Web Basics
Sep 22	Workshop: Selenium Testing		MILESTONE: BOT
Sep 27	Testing
Sep 29	Workshop: Unit Tests + Mocking		HW3
Oct 4	No class
Oct 6	Fall Break
Oct 11	Program Analysis, Metrics
Oct 13	Workshop: Complexity		HW4
Oct 18	Empirical Software Engineering
Oct 20	Workshop: Data Analysis		MILESTONE: SERVICE
Oct 25	Interviews
Oct 27	Workshop: Mock Interviews
Nov 1	Configuration Management
Nov 3	Workshop: Ansible, Vagrant		HW5
Nov 8	Continuous Deployment
Nov 10	Microservices + Infrastructure		MILESTONE: DEPLOY
Nov 15	TBD/Guest
Nov 17	TBD/Guest
Nov 22	Workshop: Docker
Nov 24	Thanksgiving
Nov 29	Productivity (PSP+SSP)		MILESTONE: REPORT
Dec 1	Demos
Dec 6	Exam (8:00AM--10:00AM)