Assignments for CPIS 209 - Software Engineering

One of the most important things you can learn as a student in the school of computing is to continuously clarify requirements and client expectations. You are expected to do this for your class assignments,

All assignments must be submitted by email. Deadline for all assignments is midnight the day of the assignment except for class presentations which are due at the beginning of class. Refer to the schedule above for due dates.

Book report

Select and read an approved book. Book must be be somehow related to the course topic. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation to be given as an in-class book report. Book report should include both general overview information as well as an in-depth review of the major points made by the book. Presentation should take about 20 minutes. The class should learn something as a result of your presentation. Content covered in the report may be covered on the next test.

Books already chosen for Winter 2010

Title	Author	Assigned to:
Theory of Constraints	Eliyahu M. Goldratt
It's Not Luck	Eliyahu M Goldratt
Waltzing With Bears	Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams	Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister	Chris Brown
Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application	37signals	Brent Wagner
Agile estimating and planning	Mike Cohn	Steven Nhut Luu

 

Report should not substantially replicate material otherwise covered in the course.

B1: Book selection due

B2: Completed PowerPoint slides due

B3: Presentations start

Team Project

As a class project, you will be specifying, developing, and testing a website. Details will be added to the assignment as the semester progresses. Deliverables will include variations on the following.

P1: Business goals, requirement and constraints, project plan

P2: Actor Model, Context Diagram, Domain Model and up dated P!

P3. Web design, update p2

P4. Increment 1, system and test cases, updated P3

P5 Increment 2, system and test cases, updated P4

P6, increment 2, system and test cases, updated P5

P7: Poster presentation

UML

Each student will present one of the UML diagrams to the class, explaining its purpose and illustrating with an example.

U1: Diagram selection due

U2: Completed PowerPoint slides due

U3: Presentations start

Assignment of Students to Diagrams

Diagram	Student
Class	Chris
Sequence	Cannon
State	Steven
Activity	Brent
Component
Deployment
Use Case

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unit Testing

Additional Assignments may be added as the semester progresses