Calendar

Deliverables marked Project should be delivered by the team. Deliverables marked Homework should be completed individually.

Introduction

Sept. 25 (lab)

Git, TypeScript

Sept. 26

Introduction and motivation: software project failures: Homework Team matching survey

Event-Driven Systems and Requirements

Sept. 29

Event-driven systems

Teams will be announced.

Sept. 29 (discussion)

None

Oct. 1

Event-driven systems: architecture (model-view-controller). Konva.

Code from today (without using MVC)

Oct. 2 (lab)

TypeScript. Basic event-driven programming.

Oct. 3

Requirements

MVC version of progress bar from Wednesday: Homework Reading: Requirements engineering for software and systems, chapter 1
Reading response due

Requirements, Testing, and Design

Oct. 6

Requirements 2: Project Vision

Oct. 6 (discussion)

Peer feedback on vision document

Oct. 8

Testing: Homework Reading: How SQLite is Tested
Reading response due

Oct. 9 (lab)

Advanced version control: branching, release strategies, merging, conflicts, bisect. Git actions, CI.

Oct. 10

Design: prototyping

Process and code quality

Oct. 12

(by 11:59 PM): Team contribution report due

Oct. 13

Process: Project Requirements and design document

Oct. 13 (discussion)

None

Oct. 15

Code review: Optional reading: Alberto Bacchelli and Christian Bird. Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review.

Oct. 16 (lab)

Advanced Konva

Oct. 17

Architecture: views; Code quality: low-level choices, OOP (part 1)

Design

Oct. 19

(by 11:59 PM): Team contribution report due

Oct. 20

Code quality: low-level choices, OOP (part 2)

Oct. 20 (discussion)

Scrum practicum: If you have them, bring lightweight art supplies: colored pencils, markers, paper. You do not need to buy anything for this.

Oct. 22

Design patterns: Project Requirements document (nonfunctional requirements). Architectural design document. Populate backlog. Sprint 1 starts after class!

Oct. 23 (lab)

none

Oct. 24

Midterm exam

Debugging, security, and design

Oct. 26

(by 11:59 PM): Team contribution report due

Oct. 27

Debugging

Oct. 27 (discussion)

None

Oct. 29

Security

Oct. 30 (lab)

none

Oct. 31

Design: evaluation (heuristics)

Risk and teams

Nov. 2

(by 11:59 PM): Team contribution report due

Nov. 3

Risk: scenarios

Optional reading: No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering: Project Sprint 1 ends

Nov. 3 (discussion)

None

Nov. 5

Process reflection (activity)

Nov. 6 (lab)

Debugging (date is tentative; may be deferred)

Nov. 7

Teamwork

Ethics and usability evaluation

Nov. 9

(by 11:59 PM): Team contribution report due

Nov. 10

TBD

Nov. 12

Ethics

Nov. 13 (lab)

None

Nov. 14

Usability studies

Practical Software Engineering

Nov. 16

(by 11:59 PM): Team contribution report due

Nov. 17

Internationalization (i18n), localization (l10n), and accessability (a11y): Project Sprint 2 ends

Nov. 17 (discussion)

none

Nov. 19

Program analysis

Nov. 20 (lab)

No lab: Nov. 21

Privacy

Optional video: The Definition of Differential Privacy: Homework Usability study

Practical Software Engineering

Nov. 23

(by 11:59 PM): Team contribution report due

Nov. 24

Intellectual property: copyright, licensing, and patents

Nov. 24 (discussion)

TBD

Nov. 26

What makes a great software engineer? Interviewing and hiring

Optional reading: What makes a great software engineer?: Project Sprint 3 ends

Nov. 27 (lab)

No lab

Nov. 29

Thanksgiving break (no class)

Demos

Nov. 30

(by 11:59 PM): Team contribution report due

Dec. 1

TBD: Project Sprint 5 ends

Dec. 1 (discussion)

None

Dec. 3

Exam review: you bring the questions!

Dec. 4 (lab)

None

Dec. 5

Project showcase: Homework Individual Reflection