MechEng Software Engineering 3

Lecture Times

• Wednesday 11.00 James Watt South 427A
• Friday 10.00 Rankine 108

Copies of the lecture slides will be distributed during lectures. Lecture slideshows will be available from this page after lectures.

Textbook

The following book is recommended (not essential).

Software Engineering, Ian Sommerville. 8th edition, Addision-Wesley, 2007.

The 6th or 7th editions should also be fine. You might be able to find a second-hand copy.

Additional Reading

Each week some short additional reading will be assigned, to give you a broader impression of what software engineers and computing scientists find interesting and important. Sometimes the material will be distributed as a handout in a lecture; sometimes a web link will be provided. (The form in which we can distribute some material is restricted by copyright.)

• The Mythical Man-Month
  Chapter 2 of The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
  Addison-Wesley, 1975.
   
• Interview with Bill Gates, 1986
  From Programmers at Work , Susan Lammers.
  Tempus Books (Microsoft Press), 1986.
  Reproduced here.
   
• A Spelling Checker
  Chapter 13 of Programming Pearls, Jon Bentley.
  Addison-Wesley, 1989.
   
• Programming is an engineering profession
  Chapter 18 of Essays in Computing Science, C. A. R. Hoare and C. B. Jones (editor).
  Prentice Hall, 1989.
   
• Alan C. Kay: A Clear Romantic Vision
  From Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists, Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere.
  Copernicus (Springer-Verlag), 1995.
   
• Zero Balances and Zero Responsibility
  Michael Bolton. Published at DevelopSense: Essays on Software Engineering, 2006.

Assessment

This course has no exam. There will be two assessed exercises, with deadlines of 26th February and 26th March.

• Assessed Exercise 1: problem sheet as PDF. The deadline is Friday 26th February at the beginning of the lecture.
• Sample solution to Assessed Exercise 1: PDF. This is the corrected version. The solution handed out in lectures related to a similar exercise involving van hire instead of tool hire, but the idea is the same.
• Assessed Exercise 2: problem sheet as PDF. The deadline is Friday 26th March at the beginning of the lecture.

Schedule and Material

• Week 1 (11th January): Introduction
  Introductory slides: PDF.
  Sommerville Chapter 1 slides: PDF.
  Lecture 2 slides (software lifecycle): PDF.
   
• Week 2 (18th January): Requirements
  Lecture 3 slides (requirements capture): PDF.
  Tutorial 1 exercise: PDF.
  Sample solution: PDF.
   
• Week 3 (25th January): Use Cases
  Wednesday 27th January: no lecture.
  Lecture 4 slides (introduction to use cases): PDF.
   
• Week 4 (1st February): Use Cases and Activity Diagrams
  Tutorial 2 exercise: PDF.
  Sample solution: PDF.
  Lecture 5/6 slides (use cases): PDF.
   
• Week 5 (8th February): Use Case and Activity Diagrams
  Lecture 6 (activity diagrams): continuing previous slides.
  Tutorial 3 exercise: PDF.
  Sample solution: PDF.
   
• Week 6 (15th February): Domain Modelling
  Lecture 7 slides: PDF.
  Tutorial 4 exercise: PDF.
  Sample solution: PDF.
   
• Week 7 (22nd February): Modelling Dynamic Behaviour / Guest Lecture
  Lecture 8/9 slides: PDF.
  Friday 26th February: guest lecture by Dr Tim Storer: E-Counting during the Scottish Elections
   
• Week 8 (1st March): Modelling Dynamic Behaviour
  Lecture 9: continuing previous slides.
  Tutorial 5 exercise: PDF.
  Sample solution: PDF.
   
• Week 9 (8th March): Testing / Formal Methods
  Sommerville Chapter 23 slides: PDF.
  Additional slides on quality assurance: PDF.
  Lecture 11 slides:
   
• Week 10 (15th March): Guest Lecture / Open Source Software
  Wednesday 17th March: guest lecture by Iain McGinniss.
   
• Week 11 (22nd March): Service-Oriented Systems