CS4704: Software Engineering
Fall 2004

 Course Information

Instructor

Dr. Sallie Henry
Email: henry@cs.vt.edu
Office: 637 McBryde
Office Hours: 1:30 - 2:30 MW and by appointment
Home Phone: 961-2498

GTA

Lester Lobo
Email: lester@vt.edu
Office: 133 McBryde
Office Hours: 2:00 - 4:00 W

 Announcements

• Welcome to the CS4704 web page.

 Course Materials

• Course Syllabus
• Course Lab Syllabus
• Mythical Man Month, Fred Brooks, Addison Wesley (required text)

 Project Materials

• Software Engineering Demographics Survey
• Team member Questionaire
• Spring 2000 Project groups, and descriptions.
• Fall 2000 Project groups, and descriptions.
• Design Presentation Score Sheet - This sheet will be used to score your design presentations.
• Design Presentation Schedule - The schedule of Design presentations.
• Class Demographics - Search the skills of the cs4704 class to find programmers for your project.
• Sample Requirements List - This is Group 4's list of system requirements. This shows a simple enumerated list of system requirements.
• Walkthrough page - Use this sheet for submitting walkthroughs.
• Sample Requirements/Design Spec - This is a sample from the Software Design and Quality graduate class at VT. It is not perfect.
• Group members and contacts
• Error checklist for inspections
• Projects Fall 2004
1. Dr. Mario
2. Verloren I’m Raum
3. Coda
4. Res Publica
5. Stratego

 Lecture Slides

• Lecture Slides 1: Software Engineering
• Lecture Slides 2: Why Software Engineering
• Lecture Slides 3: Software Design
• Lab('00): Introduction to Visual Basic
• Lab('00): Visual Basic Examples
• Sample Code: VB Code Samples (Stack Class, Control Array Demo, User Control, Win Socket Client/Server, API call)
• Lab('00): Introduction to Java
• Lab('00): Java Examples
• Sample Code: Java Code Samples (Simple Applet, Image Resizing, Client/Server application, RMI sample)
• Lab '04: Java introduction
• Lecture Slides 4: Design Strategies
• Lecture Slides 5: Testing
• Lecture Slides 6: White Box Testing
• Lecture Slides 7: Black Box Testing
• Lecture Slides 8: Belbin Roles
• Lecture Slides 9: Software Metrics
• Lecture Slides 10:Cause and Effect Graphing
• Lecture Slides 11:Proof of Correctness
• Lecture Slides Sept. 13, 2000: The Software Process: Specification, Design, and tools
• Lecture Slides Oct. 23, 2000: Good Requirements
• Lecture Slides: Metrics

 Course Resources

• Mary Sumner. Factors Influencing The Success of Computer-Assisted Software Engineering.
  This paper discusses the use of CASE tools and the effects on software process maturity. This paper is related to the September 13th lecture.
• Sallie M. Henry and K. Todd Stevens. Using Belbin's Leadership Role to Improve Team Effectiveness: An Empirical Investigation.
• Descriptions of Belbin Roles

Lester Lobo <lester@vt.edu>

Pages updated: August 26, 2004