CS1631 Software Design Methodology

Instructor: Prof. S. K. Chang
Office: 6101 Sennott Building
Office Hours: 12:15pm to 1pm TuTh
Telephone: 624-8423
E-mail: chang@cs.pitt.edu


Grader: Brian Wongchaowart
Office: 6804 Sennott Square
Office Hours: 7:15pm to 8:15pm Thursday
Telephone: 412-624-8456
E-mail: bpw5@cs.pitt.edu

Time and Classroom: TuTh 6pm to 7:15pm SQ5129

Course Description: This course is one of the courses in the software engineering track. This course is intended to apply the object-oriented approach and especially component-based software engineering (CBSE) to the design of practical software systems. Students will learn the fundamentals of component-based software engineering and participate in a group project on software design. Therefore there are no individual exercises, only group projects with at least five deliverables. The midterm and final cover the principles of software design methodology with emphasis on component-based software engineering rather than the traditional structural approach.

Textbooks: Component Based Software Engineering: Putting the Pieces Together by George T. Heineman and William T. Councill, Addison-Wesley Pub Co; 1st edition, June 8, 2001, ISBN: 0201704854. (Hardcover 818 pages, List Price: $54.99, 36 used & new from $15.19)

Visual Modeling with Rational Rose 2002 and UML (3rd Edition) by Terry Quatrani, Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 3rd edition, October 9, 2002, ISBN: 0201729326. (Paperback 288 pages, List Price: $39.99 15 used & new from $20.00)

Classnotes: Classnotes will be available at http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~chang/163/1631syl.html.

Course Outline Topics and class schedule can be found at http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~chang/163/1631topic.html.

Tools: You will need to download the following tools. (1) ArgoUML is Open Source Software, whose official website is: http://argouml.tigris.org/. (2) Virtual Classroom can be found at: http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~chang/cvc/Download/Download40.htm. A link to user manual is also offered there.

Grading: Grades are based upon exercises (20%), project (30%), quiz (5%), midterm (20%) and final exam (25%). Please read the grading policy.

Pre-requisite: CS1530 Software Engineering or consent of the instructor.

Special Feature of this Course: Leading experts from the software industry will give guest lectures in this course, brining their experiences and insights to share with students! These timely and high relevant topics are marked in red.

Project: Project will apply principles of component-based software engineering to design the components of a virtual classroom. The students can choose a theme to build a module for the experimental virtual classroom. Following the principles of Extreme Software Engineering students will work in pairs on projects.

On-line interactions: In addition to classroom lectures, this course will emphasize on-line interactions. In fact, the instructor hopes to offer this course (and other courses) by distance learning in the future. Therefore, on-line interactions will be an important, necessary component of this course. The course materials, announcements and exercises will all be available from the Internet. Impromptu meetings and schedule changes will be announced by e-mail. Therefore, the first thing a student should do is to register online. To register online, use the following registration form.

Note: If you have a disability for which you are or may be requesting an accommodation, you are encouraged to contact both your instructor and Disability Resources and Services, 216 William Pitt Union, (412) 648-7890/(412) 383-7355 (TTY), as early as possible in the term. DRS will verify your disability and determine reasonable accommodations for this course.