| Date | Topic | Assignment |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 19 | Introduction | [Project] Pre-proposal presentation date: Feb 25 |
| Jan 21 | Software Process | |
| Jan 26 | Requirements Analysis | |
| Jan 28 | Software Design | |
| Feb 2 | Software Design(2) | |
| Feb 4 | Project Management | Programmers' Build Error: A Case Study (at Google) |
| How Do Fixes Become Bugs? | ||
| [Critique] Due date: Feb 9 | ||
| Feb 9 | Empirical Study on Bugs | |
| Feb 11 | Program Representations | Change Distilling: Tree Differencing for Fine-Grained Source Code Change Extraction |
| [Critique] Due date: Feb 18 | ||
| Feb 16 | Class canceled due to the weather | |
| Feb 18 | Program Differencing | |
| Feb 23 | No class | The instructor is on travel |
| Feb 25 | Pre-proposal Presentation | [Project] 2-page proposal due date: Mar 3 |
| Mar 1 | Software Development Support (Guest lecture by Dr. Francisco Servant) | |
| Mar 3 | Pre-proposal Presentation(2), Program Representations(2) | |
| Mar 8 | No class | Spring Break |
| Mar 10 | No class | Spring Break |
| Mar 15 | Software Testing | |
| Mar 17 | Code Clones | An Empirical Study on Code Clone Genealogies |
| A Case Study of Cross-System Porting in Forked Projects | ||
| [Critique] Due date: Mar 22 | ||
| [Project] Midpoint presentation date: Mar 29/Mar 31 | ||
| Mar 22 | Empirical Studies based on Clone Detection | |
| Mar 24 | Program Dynamic Analysis | Empirical Evaluation of the Tarantula Automatic Fault-Localization Technique |
| Locating Causes of Program Failure | ||
| [Critique] Due date: Apr. 5 | ||
| Mar 29 | Midpoint Project Presentation | [Project] Final presentation date: Apr. 26/Apr. 28/May 3 |
| Mar 31 | Midpoint Project Presentation | Probabilistic Calling Context |
| Precise Calling Context Encoding | ||
| [Critique] Due date: Apr. 7 | ||
| Apr 5 | Fault Localization | |
| Apr 7 | Calling Context | |
| Apr 12 | Calling Context (2) | |
| Apr 14 | Program Static Analysis | Chianti: A Tool for Change Impact Analysis of Java Programs |
| Finding Bugs is Easy | ||
| [Critique] Due date: Apr. 21 | ||
| Apr 19 | Program Static Analysis (2) | |
| Apr 21 | Applications of program static analysis | |
| Change Impact Analysis, FindBugs | ||
| Apr 26 | Final Project Presentation | [Project] Final project report due date: May 10 |
| Apr 28 | Final Project Presentation | |
| May 3 | Final Project Presentation | |