Readings Schedule

Warning: The ordering of this material, and even the content, is subject to change. Do not print this page!

Required books:

• D. Pilone and R. Miles, Head First Software Development, 1st Edition, O'Reilly, 2008. Available Online via the UCSD VPN (limited number of simultaneous readers)

• Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates: Head First Design Patterns, 10th Anniverary Edition, O'Reilly Media, 2017. Available Online (Note: the online edition may be the older edition, but this is OK.)

• F.P. Brooks, The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1995.

Note that most of the online readings can only be accessed from a UCSD IP address. You can access these resources from home by going through the campus VPN.

The following list of readings may appear daunting. Guidance on reading an engineering research paper is available can help. If the papers for a topic initially appear unapproachable, try reading the introduction of the associated chapter in Ghezzi et al.

You should start reading the Mythical Man Month now. Reading just a chapter a week will get you really far, and will be really useful to your project. We're reading "only" 11 of the 15 original chapters. It's fairly light reading, but there's a lot of it.

Week 0

• Thursday: Introduction (papers do not need to be read or marked up)
  
  • W.W. Gibbs, Software's Chronic Crisis, Scientific American, pages 72-81, September, 1994.
  • D.L. Parnas, Why Software Jewels are Rare, Computer, 29(2), 1996.
  • C. Ghezzi, et al. (Chapters 2-3)
  • N.G. Leveson and C.S. Turner, An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents, Computer, vol. 26, no. 7, pages 18-41, July 1993.
  • The class web pages.

Week 1: Agile Software Process

• Tuesday
  
  • CSE 210 Course Web Site (no write-up/annotation)
  • Agile Software Development, Wikipedia. (do not write up; use to inform and connect readings)
  • Chapters 1 and 2 of Dan Pilone, Russell Miles: Head First Software Development, O'Reilly Media, 2007.

• Thursday
  
  • Chapter 3 of Dan Pilone, Russell Miles: Head First Software Development, O'Reilly Media, 2007.
  • Chapter 4, pages 109-123, 130-136, 139-142, of Dan Pilone, Russell Miles: Head First Software Development, O'Reilly Media, 2007.

Week 2

• Tuesday: Software Process
  
  • B.W. Boehm, A Spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement, Computer, 21(5), 61-72, May 1988.

• Thursday: Requirements I - Scenario Design
  
  • J.M. Carroll, Making Use a Design Representation, Communications of the ACM, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 28-35, Dec. 1994.
  • North & Associates, What's in a Story?

Week 3

• Tuesday: Requirements II - Designing with Data
  
  • J. Blomberg et al., Ethnographic Field Methods and Their Relation to Design, Participatory Design: Principles and Practices, from CPSR First Participatory Design Conference 1990, pp. 123-155, 1993.

• Thursday: Early Software Design
  • D. Parnas, On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules, Communications of the ACM, 15 (12), 1972.
    

Week 4: Object-Oriented Design

• Tuesday - Lecture: A Theory of Objects and its Application to Design
  • Robert C. Martin, "SRP: The Single Responsibility Principle", from the book Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices.
  • Orthogonality and the DRY Principle, A Conversation with Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas, Part II by Bill Venners, March 2003.

• Thursday
  • R. Mitchell and J. McKim, Design by Contract: By Example, Chapters 1 and 2. (please use the 2-page form, write-up as single reading)

Week 5: Software Architecture - Large and Small

• Tuesday
  
  • D. Garlan and M. Shaw, An Introduction to Software Architecture. In Advances in Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 1993. More information on software architecture is available from Garlan's and Shaw's home pages.
  • E.W. Dijkstra, The Structure of the "THE"-Multiprogramming System. Communications of the ACM, 11(5), 1968. (write this up with a view towards software architecture, not operating systems)
    

• Thursday
  • Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Freeman, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates, Chapter 1, Head First Design Patterns, O'Reilly Media, 2004.
  • E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson and J. Vlissides, Design Patterns: Abstraction and Reuse of Object-Oriented Design, Proceedings of ECOOP '93, 1993.

Week 6

• Tuesday: My Design Pattern Goes to 11
  • K.J. Sullivan and D. Notkin, Reconciling Environment Integration and Component Independence, Proceedings of the SIGSOFT '90 Fourth Symposium on Software Development Environments, December, 1990.

• Thursday: Testing (you may want to fill in the form rather than marking up the chapter)
  • C. Ghezzi, et al. (Chapter 6, through subsection 6.4.1.2, plus subsection 6.7.2)
    
  • "Equivalence Partitioning", Wikipedia. (no separate write-up)
  • "Boundary-Value Analysis", Wikipedia. (no separate write-up)

Week 7

• Tuesday: Code Review
  • A. Bacchelli and C. Bird. Expectations, outcomes, and challenges of modern code review. In Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '13). IEEE Press, pp. 712-721, 2013.
  • M. Menarini, Y. Yan, and W. G. Griswold, Semantics-Assisted Code Review: An Efficient Toolchain and a User Study, Proceedings of Automated Software Engineering 2017 (ASE'17). (do not read, presented by Griswold)

• Thursday: Embracing our Humanity - Ethics and Theory-W
  • B.W. Boehm, Case Study 2: An Urban School Attendance System, Software Engineering Economics, Chapter 2, Prentice-Hall, 1981.
    
  • B.W. Boehm and R. Ross, Theory-W Software Project Management Principles and Examples, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 902-16, July 1989. [link]

Week 8

• Tuesday (Bill G. presents)
  • G. Kiczales, E. Hilsdale, J. Hugunin, M. Kersten, J. Palm, W. G. Griswold, Getting Started with AspectJ, Communications of the ACM, pp. 59-65, October 2001.

• Thursday (discussion)
  
  • N. Nikzad, O. Chipara, and W. G. Griswold, ``APE: An Annotation Language and Middleware for Energy-Efficient Mobile Application Development'', ICSE'14: 36th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 2014. [PDF]

Week 9: NO CLASS (Thanksgiving, Project, Read MMM)

No class this week, but plenty to do. Work on your project and keep reading Mythical Man Month.
• Tuesday: NO CLASS

• Thursday: NO CLASS

Week 10: Case Studies

• Tuesday: Case Study - IBM OS/360
  
  • F.P. Brooks, The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1995. (Chapters 1-5, 7, 9, 11, 13-15)

• Thursday: Case Study - Microsoft
  
  • M.A. Cusumano and R.W. Selby, How Microsoft Builds Software, Communications of the ACM, pp. 53-61, June 1997.
  • M.A. Cusumano. Extreme programming compared with Microsoft-style iterative development. Commun. ACM v.50, no. 10, pp. 15-18, October 2007. PDF

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