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Software Development and Quality Assurance Techniques

Fall 2002

• Schedule

• Syllabus
  • Plagiarism Guidelines
  • Collaboration Guidelines
  • UW Student Conduct Code.
  • UW Grading System

• Course Project
  • Project Description
  • Weekly Reports
  • Additional guidelines and feedback on weekly reports
  • Example Weekly Report
  • Document layout requirements
  • SRS requirements
  • Sample SRS
  • SDS requirements
  • VVR requirements
  • Self/Mutual Evaluation
  • Project Grading Criteria
  • Regrade requirements

• Email
  • Privacy of Email and Files on servers at UW (and UWT).
  • Ethical and proper use of computer accounts at UW
  • Rules concerning email and network usage at UW
  • Class email list info
  • Email a message to
    • Class email list: tcss360a_au02@u.washington.edu
      
    • Instructor
    • CSS System Administrator, Stephen Rondeau
  • UW Email forwarding.

• Papers/Articles
  • Beck and Cunningham's CRC Cards Tutorial
  • ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
  • Design Patterns paper by Gang of Four
    
  • Viewpoint: Free Speech Rights for Programmers.
    You will either need to be on campus, be using UWICK, or be using a proxy server to view this article.
  • Digital Millenium Copyright Act and Fair Use
  • An Introduction to Design by Contract
  • The Dumbing Down of Programming by Ellen Ullman.
  • Microserfs: Seven days in the life of young Microsoft by Douglas Coupland (Wired Magazine, Jan. 1994).
  • Patriot Missile Performance
    
  • National Missile Defense

• Resources

  • General
    • Construx's SE links
    • eXtreme Programming (XP) practices
    • Java and Internet Glossary

  • HTML
    • W3C's "Getting Started with HTML", by Dave Raggert
    • A beginner's guide to HTML (NCSA)
    • W3C's Official HTML Homepage

  • Requirements
    • Use case template
    • Use case guidelines
    • Sample Use Case
    • Example "Real World" Requirements Documents
    • SRS Guidelines, CS 445, Univ. of Waterloo
    • SRS Guidelines, CS 373, Univ. of Texas at Austin
    • Volere Requirements Specification Template
    • Requirements Analysis Document Guidelines from Bernd Bruegge and Allen H. Dutoit, Object-Oriented Software Engineering, p126, Prentice Hall, 2000.

  • Design
    • Example "Real World" Design Documents
    • UML Tutorials

  • V and V
    • Resources and info on testing, CS 373, Univ. of Texas at Austin
    • Test Specification from Pressman's website (author of Software Engineering: A Practicioner's Approach, 5th edition, isbn: 0-07-365578-3, McGraw-Hill, 2001).
    • Black box testing
      
    • Black box testing (Lecture Week 16, slide 9 - 12)
      
    • White box testing
      

  • Programming
    • Sun's Java 1.4 API's
    • Java 1.4 Assertions
    • Doug Lea's Java Coding Standards
    • Sun's Java coding conventions
    • Pfleeger's Programming and User Documentation page
    • Windows 98 Source Code
    • How to write unmaintainable code

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  Change Log

  • 23 September 2002. Original version (adapted from previous terms).