CS 497: Software Engineering 1

Instructor: Chris Lüer
Office hours: Tu, Th 1:00 - 3:30 or when I'm available

Graduate assistant: Jerry Jeffers

Section I: Tu, Th 9:30 - 10:45, RB 122

Section II: Tu, Th 3:30 - 4:45, RB 122

Required Textbooks:

• Pressman, Roger. Software Engineering. 6th edition. McGraw Hill 2004.
• Fowler, Martin. UML Distilled. 3rd edition. Pearson 2003.

Additional Readings:

• Brooks, Frederick. The Mythical Man-Month. 2nd edition. Addison-Wesley 1995.

Tools:
Argo/UML. Freeware UML tool.
JUnit. Freeware Java test framework.
CPPUnit. Same thing for C++.
Cocomo. Cost estimation tool.
WinCVS. Client tool for the CVS configuration management system.

Web site: http://www.cs.bsu.edu/homepages/chl/497-05F/

Assignments. Assignments are due Tuesdays at the beginning of class. Homeworks (HW) are to be performed individually -- no team work is allowed. Milestones (MS) and Milestone Drafts are part of the team projects. Late assignments will be subject to a deduction of 10% of the maximum credit per late day. Write your name on the top of page 1; if an assignment has more than one page, please staple them. Type your answers and include printouts of diagrams.

Readings. Readings are due on the Tuesday of the week they are listed for. Occasional quizzes will cover the readings.

Grading.
Final Exam 25%
Midterm Exam 10%
Project 40%
Homeworks 20%
Quizzes 5%

If you receive 93.3% of the total course credit, you will get an A. If you receive 90.0%, you will get an A- or better. If you receive 86.7%, you will get a B+ or better, and so on. The grading scale will be shifted so that the median grade is at least a B.

Peer Evaluations. The instructor gives one grade for each project team for each milestone. It will be divided up among the team members as follows. Each team member divides up 100 percent among all members of the team, giving him- or herself 1/n, where n is the number of team members. The points each team member gets for a milestone is the instructor's grade multiplied with the sum of the team member's peer evaluations. In this way, your team members can influence your grade.

Team Web site. Each time has a Web site, where it publishes all documents related to the project. The team may choose to make the Web site password-protected.

Status reports. Each team has to publish weekly status reports on their Web site. Here is a template.

Extra credit. Extra credit is available for additional oral presentations. Contact me if you are interested.

Teams and Projects