Fall 2012
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Semester Schedule
| Wk# | Date | Topic | Assignment Due |
| 1 | 08/30 |
Grading. Course overview.
Project Opportunities. Software Engineering & the Software Product Lifecycle. |
Skills Survey |
| 9/4 |
Descriptions of Potential Projects Working with IDEs and Project Tools. |
Project Feedback | |
| 2 | 9/6 |
Introduction to Software Engineering (Ch.1); Overview of Process Models (Ch. 2) |
Ch. 1 & 2 |
| 9/11 |
Preparing the project development environment. Choose between TargetProcess and Rally. Review PHP IDEs. Setup XAMPP environment (Stefan Falkner). (Lab session: Bring your laptops) |
Tutorials | |
| 3 | 9/13 |
Team Assignments & Project Overview Project Planning & The Software Development Lifecycle; Project Roles: Managers, Developers, Designers, & More. |
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| 9/18 |
Guest Speaker: Scott Turnbull, Manager, Information Tech. at Emory University Libraries Topic: Agile Development ..or something that looks like it |
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| 4 | 9/20 |
User Stories and Requirements Specifications First Reading: Software Engineering Is Not Computer Science (Presentation by Man Wang) |
Reading 1 Scrum 1 CoffeeMaker Example More User Stories |
| 9/25 | The Agile Process (Ch. 3) |
Scrum 2 Ch. 03 |
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| 5 | 9/27 |
Principles of Practice (Ch. 4.1 - 4.3) Version Control with Subversion |
Scrum 3 |
| 10/02 |
Requirements Modelling and Scenarios (Ch.6) Second Reading: The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code by Joel Spolsky (Presentation by Stefan Falkner) |
Scrum 4 |
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| 6 | 10/04 |
Req. Modelling WebApps (Ch.7); PHP Tutorial |
Scrum 5 PHP Tutorial |
| 10/09 | PHP Tutorial (cont.) |
Scrum 6 |
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| 7 | 10/11 |
Guest Speaker: Michael Solomon (date tentative) Consultant/Trainer/Speaker, Solomon Consulting Inc. and Suncoast Solutions (Books by M. Solomon) |
Scrum 7 |
| 10/16 | NO CLASS --- FALL BREAK | ||
| 8 | 10/18 | Mid-Term (Take Home) | Exam due 20 Oct 11:59pm |
| 10/23 |
Third Reading: "Archetypes and Their Use in Mobile UX" (by Zhou, Chi) 1st Role Report: Software Architecture (by Valentin Lazar) Software Design Concepts (Ch.8) and Understanding Requirements (Ch.5) |
Scrum 8 Non-functional demo due |
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| 9 | 10/25 | Software Architecture (Ch.9); Component Level Design (Ch.10) |
Scrum 9 |
| 10/30 | User Interface Design (Ch.11) |
Scrum 10 |
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| 10 | 11/1 |
Pattern-Based Design (Ch. 12) Design Patterns/Head First Design Patterns (book) |
Scrum 11 |
| 11/6 |
Web Design Patterns (Ch.13); |
Scrum 12 1st iteration due |
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| 11 | 11/08 |
Plan, Execute, Measure, Rinse & Repeat: Software Process Review. 1st iteration postmortem Focus group feedback and 2nd iteration scope |
Scrum 13 |
| 11/13 |
Fourth Reading: Usability Testing (by Valentin Lazar) Role Presentation: Data Model and Code Architecture (by Stefan Falkner) |
Scrum 14 | |
| 12 | 11/15 | Software Quality and Testing (Chs. 14 through 17) |
Scrum 15 |
| 11/20 |
Role Presentation: Chi Zhou (UI Design with JQuery) Guest Speaker: Anca Doloc-Mihu, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Biology Dept "Real World Scientific Software" |
Scrum 16 | |
| 13 | 11/22 | THANKSGIVING BREAK (No Class) | |
| 11/27 |
Role Presentation: Acceptance and Unit Testing (by Man Wang) 2nd iteration planning |
Scrum 17 |
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| 14 | 11/29 |
1st iteration demo presentation (by Valentin Lazar) Guest Speaker: Brian DeShong "Don't Break Things: Building and Deploying Web Applications With Confidence" Sr. Software Engineer at CrowdTwist (Previously at Yahoo!) |
Scrum 18 |
| 12/4 |
2nd iteration user stories Beta test survey feedback Course Evaluation |
Scrum 19 |
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| 15 | 12/6 |
Software Process Improvement (Ch.30) Emerging Trends (Ch.31); Deployment with Phing |
Scrum 20 |
| 12/10 |
Finalize project work for semester Review implemented features in class |
Demonstration-Ready Software; Product Presentation Developer Role Documentation; |
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| 12/15 |
Final Exam (take-home) due 11:59pm |
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© Cengiz Gunay 2012