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CSC 408H1F/2105H1F: Software Engineering
Fall 2004/2005 Session

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You can drop by my office to collect your assignment back.
Phase C and final exam marks are done.
Urgent! For team 10 and 15, your web services on werewolf are not available now. Please enable them as soon as possible, the TA has not completely testing your systems because of this.
A double-sided A4 aid sheet is permitted to the final exam. DO NOT bring the text book and lecture notes. The format of the final exam is similar to that of this one in 2002, though the contents are different. The guest lecture will not be covered in the exam. In addition, we will have 21 questions, 100 marks and 7 pages in total.
On the final exam. I can spend one office hour on Monday from 4pm to 5pm to address your questions related to the format.
Seawolf is having trouble to restart tomcat now because there are too many processes running. You may test with web services deployed on skywolf.cdf.toronto.edu:8081/axis for now.
The presentation on Dec 2 will be scheduled from even number teams first, each team at most 5 minutes. If time permits, then the odd number teams who hadn't presented their work last week can have a chance to show their results. We have to cut the presentation right at 7pm for the guest lecture, then you may continue at 8:00pm-8:30pm. We will leave half hour towards the end for questions and answers. Please send your presentation slides to me before the class to save switching time.
For deliverable of phase C, I prefer you submit the changes/updates in paper form while the complete documents (including all documents of phase A/B/C) in electronical form.
To guarantee the quality of the integration of the course project, if your team has trouble deliver the results by Dec 2, we decided to change the late submission mark reduction rate from 10% per day to 5% per day before Dec 6th morning 8am. If you are later than the Dec 6th line, however, the mark reduction for the lateness will raise to 20% per day and the last day for submission is Dec 8 midnight 11:59pm. No mercy after that time will be given and in fact by then you really need time to prepare for the final exam.
It seems that the Bugzilla at the CDF is not used extensively by the teams. You should try to record your bugs during your development to this system ... If not, at the end, you may lose some mark. To use the bugzilla system, you must first register using your email address at @cdf.toronto.edu, such as t4sujing@cdf.toronto.edu. You will be assigned to the corresonding group number, such as c408h0xx. Please report bugs if they were initially monitored through other bugzilla systems, to make it easier for other groups to submit reports on real bugs of your web services.
See instructions for how to deploy your web services at the CDF. Let us know if you still can't deploy it.
Here is the marking scheme for the midterm
Here is an invitition to a non-free Software Development conference (Dec 6). You may get a 50% discount from the organizer.
On the final presentations: You can present your work at phase C on Thursday at 6pm-7pm. We have altogether 2 presentation sessions in 2 weeks. Every team has 5 minutes for presentation and 3-5 minutes for answering questions. The first week is scheduled for teams with odd team numbers: 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 15; the second week is scheduled for teams with even team numbers: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14. Optionally, you can invite your customers (client or web service provider) to present the collaborating work together. On Dec 2, I will invite Dr. Homy Dyani-Fard from IBM to give you a guest speech at 7pm-8pm. The topic is on "Beyond" Software Engineering. The following hour will be the last question/answer session.
The TA responsible for marking midterms are listed in here.
All the group's deliverables have been received. Most of the web services have been deployed at the CDF. If your group's web service is not deployed, please contact the instructor. You can start working on the deliverable of phase Cnow.
Currently, werewolf:8081 has a problem of hosting the tomcat server, thus please try to deploy into the tomcat server at skywolf:8081 for now. If you got permission problem, please send your classes and the deploy.wsdd to the instructor. Make sure you are using "package c408h0xx...." in your Java program, in order to generate classes in directories separate from other groups' classes.
The deliverables at phase B is updated with some clarifying notes.
Volunteers encouraged for a software project estimation project (details will be explained in the class), to practise what you have learnt from the class. It is neither obliged nor bonused for the course though.
The due date for Deliverable phase B is Nov 7, 23:59 (midnight). Please place the document into the dropbox in room BA2220 and send the packed electronical version to the instructor by the deadline.
About the presentation on Nov 4: each group can only talk for no more than 5 minutes during the tutorial hour. By the noon of Nov 4, please send your electronical powerpoint or PDF slides to the instructor. The presentation is meant to convey your project to your potential customers. There is no direct mark for it, however, the success of your project is indirectly measured by the number of clients that successfully integrated your web service.
The average score for the Deliverable A is 81/100 raw, or 12/15 after the adjustment. If you found wrong marks, you can ask the TA to remark the whole assignment. Important: You may gain some marks, also lose some marks if the TA can find new errors. Also you have only one chance of getting remarked. Here is a list of responsible markers:
```
Marker   	Teams
-----------    ----------------------
Yuye Chen	1, 10, 11, 12
Jing Su		5, 9, 14
Lifang Wang	2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 15
```
About Mid Term Test.
The Web services HowTo page has been updated. Please refresh your environment variable accordingly to use Axis with the TOMCAT server.
The break down requirements for the deliverables at phase B is given.
The Software descriptions has been modified to reflect the terminology change we discussed during the first lecture, namely, changing the term LOAD/SAVE with UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD as most people think about it from the client side.
For students outside St George Campus that asked for waiver, it is required to apply the waiving from the ROSI system. Here is what says in the waiver form: "One of the things you CANNOT do is let a non-program student into your course if the spaces for non-program students are all gone. All those students can do is to keep trying to enrol on the ROSI system." Please let me know if you are in the program, because the information provided yesterday does not have the campus listed.
The first tutorial on "Web Services" will be held on Sept. 23. There is no tutorial on Sept. 16.
The first lecture will be given by Karen Reid. I will be back from Japan next week.

CSC 408H1F/2105H1F: Software EngineeringFall 2004/2005 Session

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CSC 408H1F/2105H1F: Software Engineering
Fall 2004/2005 Session