CSC302: Engineering Large Software Systems

(Winter term 2012)

Annoucements

Wed March 21, 2012: Assignment 4 is out!
Monday March 5, 2012: Assignment 3 is out!
Friday Feb 17, 2012: Four important announcements:
1. We voted in class to move the mid-term from Tues Feb 28 to Thurs March 1 (in the 10am lecture slot, same room as usual).
2. Assignment 2 can be submitted electronically, as long as you package everything into a single PDF document. Send it by email, or check it in to your repository and let us know where to access it.
3. There's a motion to switch from OpenStack to MatPlotLib for the second half of the course; we'll discuss and vote on this in the first lecture after the break.
4. If you haven't already done the peer evaluation form for assignment 1, please do so by the end of the day on Monday 20th Feb. After that, I'll be re-setting it for assignment 2.
Friday Feb 3, 2012: Assignment 2 is out at last.
Friday Feb 3, 2012: The peer review form is now working. Please log in with your cdf login&password, and evaluate everyone on your team including yourself, for their performance on assignment 1.
Monday Jan 23, 2012: Due to the delays in forming teams and getting access to the code, I'm extending the deadline for assignment 1 to next Tuesday, January 31st (with the first 10 minutes of the lecture).
Tuesday Jan 17, 2012: PLEASE NOTE: if you don't check your cdf email account regularly, please register your prefered email address in DrProject, so your teammates can find you. Log into DrProject with your cdf login, go to 'preferences' and register your preferred email address. Oh, and I've added some notes about getting hold of the OpenStack code on the wiki.
Thursday Jan 12, 2012: The list of who's in which team has been posted, and I've added you all the the DrProject portal.
Thursday Jan 12, 2012: We voted in class to adopt OpenStack as our project for the term.
Monday Jan 9, 2012: Suggestions for open source projects for you to work on for this course. We'll talk about these in class tomorrow:

http://opengrads.org/
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/
http://ushahidi.com/
Late suggestion: An Eclipse plugin such as Mylyn or Egit
Another late suggestion: OpenStack

Friday Jan 6, 2012: This is the new web page for CSC302. Lectures start Tuesday January 10th. See you then!

About the Course

This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of large-scale software system design, development, and deployment. Topics include project management; advanced UML; reverse engineering; requirements inspection; verification and validation; software architecture; performance modeling and analysis.

Note: This page is for Winter 2012. Web pages for older versions of the course have been archived:

General Course Handouts

Course Information Sheet
Course discussion board
The DrProject portal for this course (your cdf username should now work for login)
List of teams for this term
Notes on Teamworking (including the team information sheet)

Lecture Notes & Weekly Readings

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Week 1:
- 10/1/2012 - Lecture 01: Orientation
- 12/1/2012 - Lecture 02: Introduction to Modeling and Class Diagrams
- Additional notes:
  - What We Should Teach New Software Developers? Why? by Bjarne Stroustrup (Creator of C++)
  - Ten papers every programmer should read (at least twice) by Michael Feathers
  - Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel
  - For the UML: Chapters 1 & 3 of Fowler;
  - Pointers to free UML tools
Week 2:
- 17/1/2012 - Lecture 03: Software Architectures
- 19/1/2012 - No lecture! Field trip to CUSEC'2012
- Additional notes:
  - Chapters 3 & 7 of Fowler.
  - Software Architecture Documentation in the Real World by Markus Volter
  - The 4+1 View Model of Software Architecture by Philippe Kruchten
  - A practical hands-on guide to design patterns in Java, this one comes highly recommended.
Week 3:
- 24/1/2012 - Lecture 05: Sequence Diagrams
- 26/1/2012 - Lecture 06: Reverse Engineering
- Additional notes:
  - A list of code comprehension tools
Week 4:
- 31/1/2012 - Lecture 07: Software Processes
- 2/2/2012 - Lecture 08: Use-Case Driven Design
- Additional notes: Overview of the ICONIX process
Week 5:
- 7/2/2012: Lecture 09: Estimation and Prioritization
- 9/2/2012: Lecture 10: Risk Management
- Additional notes:
  - Peter Seibel's essay "Estimation Considered Harmful"
  - NASA Mars Missions Investigation Report
  - 2011 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors
Week 6:
- 14/2/2012: Lecture 11: Project Management
- 16/2/2012: Lecture 12: Intro to Requirements Analysis
- Additional notes:
  - Finding a programmer that can program
  - Alistair Cockburn's guide to Burndown Charts;
  - What are Requirements?
Week 7:
- No lectures - Reading Week
Week 8:
- 28/2/2012: Lecture 13: More Requirements Analysis
- 1/3/2012: Midterm Exam (in the usual lecture theatre)
- Additional Notes:
  - A brief tutorial on developing goal models
Week 9:
- 6/3/2012: Lecture 14: Robustness Analysis
- 8/3/2012: Lecture 15: Verification and Validation
- Additional notes: Doug Rosenberg's guide to Robustness Analysis; Scott Ambler's guide to Robustness Diagrams;
- Extra: An in-depth discussion of V&V of Climate Models
Week 10:
- 13/3/2012: Lecture 16: Intro to Testing
- 15/3/2012: Lecture 17: Testing Strategies
- Additional notes: What we have learned about fighting defects, and Free code coverage tools for Java;
Week 11:
- 20/3/2012: Lecture 18: Automated Testing
- 22/3/2012: Lecture 19: Static Analysis
- Additional notes:
  - a Tutorial on test-driven development with JUnit; and a tutorial on PyUnit
  - Finding Bugs is Easy - paper by the authors of FindBugs, and A Comparison of Bug Finding tools for Java;
Week 12:
- 27/3/2012: Lecture 20: Software Quality
- 29/3/2012: Lecture 21: More on Software Quality
Week 13:

3/4/2012: Lecture 22: Managing Software Teams
5/4/2012: Lecture 23: Course Review
Additional notes:
- An essay on dealing with hitchhikers and couch potatoes.
- Poisonous People

Assignments and Exams

Note: All assignments will be based on an existing open source code base.

Peer review process: All term assignments are team assignments. For each of the assignments, everyone needs to also fill out the peer review form, to indicate your opinion of how each member of the team performed.

Assignment 1: Reverse Engineering and Design Recovery

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Note: new deadline is Tuesday Jan 31st

Assignment 2: Implemented Change Requests

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Note: new deadline is Thursday Feb 23rd

Assignment 3: Requirements Analysis for new features

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Assignment 4:

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Midterm Exam:

Sample exam for study purposes (without answers!)
Actual midterm from Winter 2008, and with model answers
Actual midterm (with model answers) from Fall 2008
Actual midterm from Winter 2009, and with model answers
Actual midterm from 2012 with model answers

Final exam:

Actual final exam from Winter 2008 and with model answers
Actual final exam from Fall 2008 and with model answers
Actual final exam from Winter 2009 and with model answers
Actual final exam for 2012 with model answers

Contact Details

Professor:

Prof. Steve Easterbrook
email: sme@cs.toronto.edu
web page: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sme
phone: 978-3610 (please use only for emergencies)
Office: BA3259 (Bahen Center)
Office Hours: TBD