Michael Elhadad - Software Engineering

Software Engineering - Fall 1999

Instructor: Michael Elhadad (elhadad@cs.bgu.ac.il)
Office Hours: Wed 11-12

Classes: Sunday 10-12 32-111
         Wednesday 9-11 34-005

Lecture Notes

Lecture 1

Definition: "The application of a disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation and maintenance of software"
Background: Software development as an economic activity: cost, resources, revenue, quality. Engineering: optimizing revenue within allocated resources.
Software Development Activities, Process, Process improvement.
Context: Initiate, Construct, Deliver, Maintain and Support.

Activities and Domain

Activities: Specification, Testing, Software architecture, Code inspection, Team development, Code maintenance, Cost estimation, PSP, Time measurement.
Domain: Distributed systems, CORBA, Multimedia programming.

Project Initiation

Justify
Define and Validate Initial Requirements
Define Initial Management Documents
Define Infrastructure

Construct

Model
Generalize
Test in the Small
Program

Case Study: A Video Broadcasting Client-Server System

Functional Components:

Production: library of video clips, maintenance, meta-data.
Scheduling: preparation of scheduled broadcasts.
Broadcasting: actual broadcast (give access to broadcasts)
Receiver: select broadcast channel, display program.

Project Initiation:

Justify
Define and Validate Initial Requirements: Document Template
Define Initial Management Documents: Product definition, use-case scenario.
Define Infrastructure: standards, platform, resources, deadlines.

Bibliography

Ambler, S.W.
Process Patterns: Building Large-Scale Systems Using Object Technology
Cambridge University Press/SIGS Books
(0-521-64568-9) 1998

Ambler, S.W.
More Process Patterns
Cambridge University Press, Managing Object Technology Series
(0-521-65262-6) 1999

Humphrey, W.S.
Introduction to Personal Software Process,
Addison Wesley, SEI Series in Software Engineering,
QA76.758.H858 1997 (0-201-54809-7).

Humphrey, W.S.
A Discipline for Software Engineering,
Addison Wesley, SEI Series in Software Engineering,
QA76.758.H857 1995 (0-201-54610-8).

I. Sommerville and P. Sawyer
Requirements Engineering, a good practice guide.
John Wiley, (0-471-97444-7), 1997.

T. Gilb and D. Graham
Software Inspection
Addison Wesley
QA76.76.Q35G48 (0-201-63181-4), 1993

Sullivan S.C., Winzeler L., Deagen J. and Deanna Brown
Programming with the JavaMedia Framework
John Wiley
QA76.73.J38P77 (0-471-25169-0) 1998

McConnell S.
Rapid Development
Microsoft Press
QA76.76.D47M393 (1-556-15900-5) 1996

McConnell S.
Code Complete
Microsoft Press
(1-556-15484-4) 1993

McConnell S.
Software Project Survival Guide 
Microsoft Press
(1-572-31621-7) 1997

Douglas C. Schmidt's Homepage
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/
An amazingly rich and high-quality source of info on CORBA, Distributed
Programming, Design Patterns.

E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson, and J. Vlissides
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
Addison-Wesley
(0-201-63361-2) 1995.

W.J. Brown, R.C. Malveau, H.W. McCormick III, T.J. Mowbray
Anti Patterns: refactoring software, architectures and projects in crisis
John Wiley
QA76.76.D47A54 (0-471-19713-0) 1998
http://www.antipatterns.com

M. Fowler, K. Scott, I. Jacobson 
UML Distilled: Applying the Standard Object Modeling Language
Addison-Wesley, Object Technology Series

Corba for Beginners, OMG
http://www.omg.org/corba/beginners.html

UML Home Page (Rational)
http://www.rational.com/uml/

Last modified Mar 23rd, 1999 Michael Elhadad