CS3733-B04 Class Schedule

The following table shows the class schedule, by week, and the topics for the classes. While there may be some adjustment in the schedule as the term progresses, I will try to stick to the schedule as much as possible.

The notes for each class can be found on the approprite notes page, if I have published them, to the notes web site.

Date
 Topics Assignment Reading
26-Oct
 Introduction Form teams and post your team members (optional team name) on the myWPI discussion forum for teams. Make sure that you identify the person who will be responsible for project management. Due, 28-Oct-2004 Chapter 1
28-Oct
  • The software lifecycle.
  • CVS
 Prepare a team communication form for your team. Post your communication form in the team file exchange for your team in myWPI. Due, 29-Oct-2004 People, process, tools
29-Oct
  • Iteration 1, Inception
  • Planning with Rally
 Prepare your project plan in the Rally project management tool. Due 2-Nov-2004 Sections 4.1, 4.2, and 4.2.
1-Nov
 Agile planning

Assume that you are engaging a software development team to create a system that will let teachers test their students on-line. The teachers need to be able to "publish" tests, notify the students that a test is available, and retrieve the completed tests. Students need to take the tests and see their grades after the teacher grades them.
Write 10 good user stories for this system. A good user story is one that describes one thing in enough detail that a developer can estimate the effort required to implement the story.
Put your stories in a text or word document and submit it using turning. Due 5-Nov-2004

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 Sections 7.1, 7.2
2-Nov
  • Project status reporting
  • Eclipse
  • Process dashboard
   Sections 7.3, 7.4
4-Nov
  • Getting requirements
  • Use Cases
  • Introduction to UML
    
5-Nov
 Project standards meeting    
8-Nov
 Requirements. Use Cases    
9-Nov
  • Requirements
  • From requirements to the domain / analysis model.

Do exercise 1 on page 233 of the text. Also, take one of the use cases you identify for the exercise and write the textual description of it. Include the name, brief description, basic flow of events and subflows. Due 12-Nov-2004

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11-Nov
  • Project update
  • Marketing presentation intro
  • Unit testing intro
   Chapter 8
12-Nov
  • Unit testing
  • Analysis model
   Section 9.1
15-Nov
 Object-oriented design

Exercise 1, page 295. Due 19-Nov-2004

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 Section 9.2
Test Before You Code
16-Nov
  • Customer interview / update
  • Marketing presentations
   Section 9.3
18-Nov
 Marketing presentations    
19-Nov
 Midterm review and introduction to quality    
22-Nov
 Midterm exam    
23-Nov
 Introduction to design: architecture and patterns   Chapter 11
29-Nov
 Design and architecture    
30-Nov
 Design, Dependencies, Refactoring

Exercise 3 under case-study exercises on page 363. Due 3-Dec.

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 Chapter 12
2-Dec
 Agile methods

 

 

  
3-Dec
 Introduction to testing    
6-Dec
 Testing - Test cases and exploratory testing    
7-Dec
 Path and condition testing, integration and system testing   Parnas and Clements article
9-Dec
 Faking the ideal process    
10-Dec
 Measurement and metrics, CMM and other frameworks   Misconceptions about CMM
13-Dec
 Wrapping things up    
14-Dec
 Final review    
16-Dec
 Final exam    

Modified: 10-Dec-2004
Gary Pollice