Schedule of CS446

(this schedule is subject to changes)

Date	Topic	Abstract
week 1: Sep 22	Introduction to CS446 (gw) and Overview (db) slides	The software development process can be looked at from various angles. Though the starting points may be different (assuring high product quality - managing a project - addressing software development as an engineering discipline), the same issues come come up in the various viewpoints. In this talk I will give an overview of the various subtopics embraced by the term software engineering and will show how these topics relate to each other.
week 2: Sep 27	UML (db) slides: part1, part2 (for printing disable "black&white")	UML (Unified Modeling Language) is the object-oriented modeling technique that evolved from modeling languages used in methods like Booch, OMT (Rumbaugh) and OOSE (Jacobson). It has been adopted by OMG, is now widely used in many companies, and is an integral part of many software development methods. This series of lectures will give an in depth introduction into UML, covering most yet not all of its elements. Prior knowledge about object-oriented concepts (classes, objects, inheritance) is assumed, and knowing basic entity-relationship modeling is helpful. Part one: Introduction into semi-formal modelling, Actors, Use Cases
week 2: Sep 29	UML (db)	Part two: Class diagrams
week 3: Oct 4	UML (db)	Part three: Dynamic Diagrams
week 3: Oct 6	Software development processes (Ron Burback)	Taks/workflows and different methodologies (waterfall, spiral, etc.).
week 4: Oct 11	Processes for UML (db)	UML Part four: Processes for UML, Rational Unified Process, use-case driven development, risk-driven iterative development
week 4: Oct 13	Managing Software Reuse: A Case-Based Approach (Wayne Lim)	Abstract
week 5: Oct 18	Software Risk Management (ajs)	Risk management is a relatively new topic in software engineering. The talk gives an overview of the subtopics embraced by risk management: basic concepts, a taxonomy of risks, risk-driven software development, software risk management steps, and risk management techniques.
week 5: Oct 20	Design Patterns (db) slides
week 6: Oct 25	Architecting and Modeling for Reuse (Martin Griss, HP)
week 6: Oct 27	Architectures for large systems, Architecture Patterns (Ron Burback)	By architecture, I mean the components of a large distributed software system and their interfaces, methods of communication, and behavior. This talk will give an overview of typical architecture patterns, and will survey several architecture examples with a more detailed discussion of DADL.
week 7: Nov 1	Design Patterns, part 2 Frameworks (slides) (db)	We will look at yet some more design patterns, and we will also discuss how to design with design patterns. Then we will look at frameworks, and I will present EJB (Enterprise Java Beans) as an example for a framework.
week 7: Nov 3	SCIP Software Industry Study Avron Barr publications especially: A Pilot Survey of Software Product Management Slides from the talk at the Software Engineering Process Group '97 Conference Will Componentware Save Us from the Software Talent Shortage?	abstract
week 8: Nov 8	Testing (gw) slides
week 8: Nov 10	Maintenance (gw) slides
week 9: Nov 15	Architecture Description Languages: what they are and what they are used for (David Luckham)
week 9: Nov 17	Model Systems (ajs)	Model systems are frameworks recently developed in order to integrate models associated to different facets of the software development. Examples are: MBASE, MBSE, SEI-MBSE, Honeywell-MBSD, USDP. A model system as a collection of models and all their associated relations and constraints. Model systems define a notational and a semantical integration and are closely related to decision making. The talk: i) shows how facets of the software development are related in different approaches; ii) presents an enhancement of the MBASE model system.
week10: Nov 22	Software Cost Modeling and Estimation, Part 1 (ajs)	Major cost and schedule techniques currently used or being researched. Modeling and estimation concepts. SCE algorithm and algorithmic models. Sensitivity analysis. Software trends and new modeling capabilities. Master equations.
week 10: Nov 24	Software Cost Modeling and Estimation, Part 2 (ajs)	Software sizing metrics. Estimating the effort of adapting existing software. Software reuse estimation. Software maintenance estimation. Model calibration. Practicalities: the process of software cost estimation. Project planning and control.
week 11: Nov 29	Prototyping (db), Requirements Engineering, QA, Reviews slides	Requirements engineering: content of a requirements document, activities to determine requirements (requirements analysis, validation, evolution), taking into account multiple viewpoints in the requirements engineering process. When, how, why and what for to use prototyping. Various kinds of prototyping. Quality Assurance Systems, Reviews
week 11: Dec 1	CHAIMS (gw) slides	How could automated composition of large, distributed, heterogenous (also concerning the protocol like CORBA, RMI, DCE, DCOM) and automonous software modules look like? The CHAIMS project has the goal to investigate and develop a language and a system for the high-level composition of such modules.