Catalog Description: Ideas and techniques for designing, developing, and modifying large software systems. Function-oriented and object-oriented modular design techniques, designing for re-use and maintainability. Specification and documentation. Verification and validation. Cost and quality metrics and estimation. Project team organization and management. Students will work in teams on a substantial programming project.
Units: 4
Prerequisites: COMPSCI 61B and COMPSCI 61C; COMPSCI 70 or MATH 113.
Formats:
Fall: 3.0 hours of lecture and 1.0 hours of discussion per week
Summer: 6.0 hours of lecture and 2.0 hours of discussion per week
Spring: 3.0 hours of lecture and 1.0 hours of discussion per week
Grading basis: letter
Final exam status: Written final exam conducted during the scheduled final exam period
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Department Notes:
Course objectives: To have detailed knowledge of the object-oriented software development method, and to be able to apply it. To master the development of a medium size software application from the conception stage to deployment, using modern technologies. To experience working in a team. To master written technical communication.
Topics covered:
- Software engineering processes
- Object-oriented processed
- Agile processes (Extreme programming)
- Gathering requirements
- Specifications
- Unified Modeling Language
- Design
- Unified Modeling Language
- Design patterns
- Version control
- Testing
- Regression testing
- Integration testing
- Test generation
- Debugging
- General principles
- Delta debugging
- Runtime monitoring
- Purify
- Cooperative Bug Isolation
- Diduce
- Eraser (data race debugging)
- Software security
- Verification
- Refactoring
- Software reuse
- Programming with Exceptions
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