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Week 1

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Lectures: Software overview [slides], [handout]

Required Readings:

• Read the ACM/IEEE Ethics code and think about cases where the principles might conflict.

Suggested Readings:

• flick through Proceedings of the 1968 NATO Software Engineering workshop
• Sommerville Ch1 and/or Stevens Ch1
• Google "Chaos Standish reports", find e.g. this.
• Google "software engineering ethics".

Tutorials No tutorials in week 1 (nor week 2 or week 3)

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Week 2

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Lectures: About the coursework [slides] , Large(r) systems [slides], [handout] , Requirements engineering and use cases [slides], [handout]

Required Readings:

• Read the coursework
• GSWEBOK 2004 Chapter 2

Suggested Readings:

• Blog on Chinook FADEC
• CMU's page on ULSs
• Stevens Ch7, Sommerville requirements chapters.
• ATS User Stories
• BCS Response to NAO Investigation of NPfIT (See Problem/Solution 3)

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Week 3

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Lectures: Design [slides], [handout], Refactoring [slides], [handout], UML class diagrams [slides], [handout]

Required Readings:

• article on refactoring

Suggested Readings:

• GSWEBOK2004 Ch3, for an overview of the field of software design
• Stevens Ch3, a simple case study; Somerville Ch14 on OOD (and nearby chapters, maybe)
• Browse SEI's collection of architecture definitions
• (architecture) Somerville ch 11-13
• Browse Martin Fowler's refactoring page
• Stevens Ch5

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Week 4 (no lecture Thursday)

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Lectures: Construction 1 [slides], [handout]

Required Readings:

• Chapter 1, Fundamental Concepts

Suggested Readings:

• man rcsintro
• Eclipse Team Programming with CVS
• Tutorial about dVCS (Mercurial)
  
• GIT Community Book and
• list of GIT resources
• browse JUnit site

First Tutorial: Questions to work on before the tutorial,

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Week 5 (no lecture Tuesday)

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Lectures: Construction 2 [slides], [handout]

Required Readings:

• Something thorough on Java packages e.g. this tutorial plus this page on access, or this chapter but be aware it's old - check the examples!
• JavaDoc tutorial

Suggested Readings:

• Stevens Ch14 - 4 pages discussing UML's notion of packages.

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Week 6

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Lectures: Interaction [slides], [handout], Verification, validation and testing [slides], [handout], Deployment and maintenance: [slides], [handout]

Required Readings:

• GSWEBOK2004 Ch11
• Some JUnit information, see [slides] and here. You must know how to create and run a JUnit test for a method of a class - the best way to learn this is to do it.
• Section 1 of Design by contract with JML

Suggested Readings:

• A Laboratory for Object-Oriented Thinking
• The rest of "Design by contract with JML"
• GSWEBOK2004 Ch5
• Sommerville Ch22-24 and/or Stevens Ch19
• The Java webstart page

Second Tutorial: Questions to work on before the tutorial.

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Week 7 (No lecture Thursday)

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Lectures: Processes [slides], [handout]

Suggested Readings:

• Browse the web to read more about the processes mentioned in (also for next lecture)

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Week 8

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Lectures: Agile Process [slides], [handout]

Suggested Readings:

• Browse the web to read more about the processes mentioned in (also for next lecture)

Third Tutorial: Questions to work on before the tutorial.

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Week 9

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Lectures: Quality [slides], [handout], The user's role [slides], [handout]

Required Readings:

• GSWEBOK2004 Ch11
  
• Equality Act 2010 article
• How to report bugs effectively

Suggested Readings:

• Paulk paper
• Sommerville chapter 26
• Sommerville \S5.4, Ch 27,28 and/or Stevens Ch19,20.
• Sommerville Chs 4,5,17 and/or Stevens Ch 4.
• CMMI vs. ISO 9001 case study
• useit.com especially Alertboxes
• Smart questions
• W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

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Week 10

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Lectures: Non-functional requirements [slides], [handout] Security engineering [slides], [handout], Licensing, IP [slides], [handout], Ethics, including Therac-25 story [slides], [handout]

Required Readings:

• The GPL
• The LGPL
• Open Source definition

Suggested Readings:

• Browse CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors
• Why Information Security is Hard: an Economic Perspective
• Secure Coding Guidelines for the Java Programming Language
• Nancy Leveson's paper on the Therac-25 accidents.

Fourth Tutorial: Past exam questions.

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