William M. Lively

Professor

Department of Computer Science
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3112

Office: 427C H. R. Bright Building
Phone: (409)845-5480
Fax: (409) 847-8578
Email: lively@cs.tamu.edu

Spring 2000

Grade based on participation/Notebook

Simmons' 606 Notes

Topics

• Future of Software - Web Engineering; Software Engineering over the Internet
• e-Business/Commerce Systems and Architectures
  • Architectural Tradeoff Analysis
  • Writing JAVA Enterprise Applications
  • Endy SA Presentation
  • Java Technologies
  • Java 3 Tier Architectures
• Open Systems
• Network-Centric Computing - JINI
  • JINI and JavaSpace
• Interoperability - CORBA, COM, DCOM
• Security - Defensive Information Warfare
• Improving Software Engineering Practice
  • Rational Unified Process
  • Software Organization Productivity
  • Can you trust software capability evaluations?
  • Critical Success Factors in Software Projects
  • A Critical Success Factors Model for ERP Implementation
  • Difficulties in the Transition from OO Analysis to Design
  • Valtech Process
  • Defining and Validating Measures for Object-based High-level Design
  • Software Realities - Improving the Development System Model
  • A Critique of Software Defect Prediction Models
  • Software Engineering Environments - Methodman
  • Evaluation of Modeling Methods
  • Unified Design Process - OO Software Engineering
  • PSP
  • TSP
  • Design Metrics - Object Oriented
  • Data Quality
  • Risk Management
  • ? Needs - Discovery Process - Knowledge Mining
• Brooks' Law Revealed
• Web Based Learning and Collaboration
• Collaboration in Multimedia Networked Applications and Groupware
• Component Based Development
• UML
  •  Designing Component-based Frameworks Using Patterns in UML
  •  Using UML in the Real-time Domain
  •  Modeling Web Application Architectures with UML

• Albert Einstein and Empirical Software Engineering
• Why is Testing So Hard?
  • Testing Distributed Component Based Systems
  • Automated testing case generation
  • Testing OO systems

• High Assurance Systems Engineering
• Survivability System Initiative
• Software Safety Research at MIT
• Enterprise and Domain Engineering
• Certification Issues
• World Wide Web Semantics
• Situation Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing
• eXtreme Programming and Flexible Processes in Software Engineering
  • Holonic and Multi-agent Systems
• Providing Convincing Evidence of Safety
• Theoretical Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems
• Multi-dimensional Separation of Concerns
• Pervasive Computing

• Software Research Centers
  • Purdue/UofFla SERC
  • Kestrel Institute
  • USC-ISI
  • USC-Center for Software Engineering
  • SEI
  • Rome Air Force Base - DACS

• AI in Software Engineering
  • KBSA conference bibliography
  • User Interface Software Tools
  • Microsoft Windows Architecture
  • Topics
  • AES Topics

Object Oriented Analysis and Design with UML and Patterns

        PowerPoint Slides

Managing Advanced Technology Projects

Enterprise Java Beans

Java Programming

Designing a GUI with Swing and JavaBeans

PRODUCTS/PROCESSES

• problem statement
• requirements - scenarios - use cases - actions related to each entity
• specifications - hi level design
• design
• coding(implementation)/integration
• testing
• installation
• operation/management
• focus on upstream issues
• Determining what the system is to really be?
• Really can't determine until you have built one.
• Need experience building and using the system.
• Items to look at this semester:
• current and typical systems of today
• distributed
• web based & internet
• client server
• requirements issues; requirements engineering, elicitation, definition, analysis and validation
• Usability - discovery process
• GUI design
• reuse - components, repositories; component based software; design patterns
• software architectures (component)
• management issues:
• what would you like to know
• Progress - measured? Time/performance
• project
• team
• personnel
• artifacts
• Else? - resources

• CM - versioning/change control
• Use artifacts in multiple projects?
• Time stamps for artifacts
• How do you evaluate Software Engineering Approaches
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• quality software - QA
• software performance
• reliability

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  • questions to ask:

   

  • What do you find really hard about software engineering?

   

  • What topics are you really interested in for this course?

   

  • Java, environments, OO what

   

  AI in SE

  Automatic programming

  Knowledge based agents

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  Key software engineering terms

  
  productivity			DSSA
  
  scale-up			rapid prototype
  
  risks				invisibility
  
  formalization			knowledge mining
  
  LCAM				design rationale capture
  
  garage owner's son syndrome	discovery process
  
  iterate				software architecture
  
  experience			V&V
  
  OMT - Paradigm+			context
  
  domain knowledge		maintenance
  
  reusability 			software process model
  
  conceptual modeling		requirements
  
  reverse engineering		megaprogramming
  
  communication			software development
  
       					environment
  
  

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  Valtech Courses

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  Strategies and Patterns for Building Object Models

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  Software Life Cycle

  USC Center for Software Engineering

  COTS

  Software Project Failures and Successes

  Related Reuse Issues

  Software Architectures

  System Design - Newest Software Architecture Classification

  Object Oriented Testing

  Prioritizing Requirements Using a Cost Value Approach

  Configuration Management

  Anchoring the Software Process

  Identifying Quality Requirement Conflicts