IS203 – Software Engineering

August to December 2005

Announcements

Lecturers:

Associate Professor PANG Hwee Hwa (Email: hhpang AT smu.edu.sg, URL: http://www.mysmu.edu/faculty/hhpang/default.htm)

Assistant Professor Althea LIANG (Email: althealiang AT smu.edu.sg)

Instruction staff:

Ms Swapna GOTTIPATI (Email: swapnag AT smu.edu.sg)

Teaching assistants:

Class hours and venue:

G1: Monday and Wednesday 1015-1145 hours, SIS Networked Seminar Room 3.2

G2: Monday and Thursday 1345-1515 hours, SIS Networked Seminar Room 3.2

G3: Thursday 1530-1845 hours, SIS Networked Seminar Room 2.4

G4: Thursday 0830-1145 hours, SIS Networked Seminar Room 2.4

Topics

Lecture notes will be available here at the end of each week.

Week 1: 22 Aug – 28 Aug

Session 1: Course Introduction, Project, Waterfall Model

Session 2: Iterative & Incremental Development

Week 2: 29 Aug – 4 Sep

Session 1: RUP Overview

Session 2: XP Overview

Week 3: 5 Sep – 11 Sep

Session 1: Management and Project Plans

Session 2: Project Definition Studio

Week 4: 12 Sep – 18 Sep

Session 1: Project Scheduling

Session 2: Measurement & Metrics

Week 5: 19 Sep – 25 Sep

Session 1: EVA

Session 2: Testing Strategies

Week 6: 26 Sep – 2 Oct

Session 1: Testing Styles

Session 2: Mini SRE on Project

Week 7: 3 Oct – 9 Oct

Session 1: Risk Management

Session 2: Term Test

Week 8: 10 Oct – 16 Oct: Term Break

Week 9: 17 Oct – 23 Oct

Session 1: Risk Management Case Study

Session 2: Guest Lecture: PRIM and Prosper – Experience in Designing a Personal Relationship Information Manager. Guest Lecture by Dr. LEONG Mun Kew, Division Director (Services & Applications), Institute for Infocomm Research (21 Oct Friday 2:00-3:30pm, School of Accountancy Conference Hall 2)

Week 10: 24 Oct – 30 Oct

Session 1: Configuration Management

Session 2: Philosophy of Agile Development

Week 11: 31 Oct – 6 Nov

Session 1: CMM

Session 2: Public Holiday

Week 12: 7 Nov – 13 Nov

Session 1: RUP & XP

Session 2: Inspection Lab

Week 13: 14 Nov – 20 Nov

Session 1: Project Presentations

Session 2: Managing Distributed Teams & Outsourcing

Week 14: 21 Nov – 27 Nov

Session 1: Project Presentations

Session 2: Project Presentations

Assessment

Term test – 15%

Project – 55%

Peer evaluation – 5%

One out-of-class case studies – 10%

One in-class exercise – 5%

Class participation – 10%

References

Textbook:

Software Engineering for IT Professionals, Pearson Education, ISBN 981-244-741-5

Other books:

Software Engineering, 7th Edition, Pearson Education, 0-321-21026-3

Agile & Iterative Development, A Manager’s Guide, Pearson Education, 0-13-111155-8

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