Readings Schedule

Warning: The ordering of this material is subject to change.

Required books:

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

The ``back-up'' text for this class is:

• C. Ghezzi, M. Jazayeri, and D. Mandrioli, Fundamentals of Software Engineering, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 2002.

Note that most of the online readings can only be accessed from a UCSD IP address. You can access these resources from home by accessing the web through the campus's web proxy, or running UCSD's VPN client.

The following list of readings is daunting. Indeed, it is difficult to teach an adequate class in 10 weeks. As you approach these readings, recognize that you probably do not need to read every page in equal detail. Guidance on reading an engineering research paper is available. If the papers for a topic initially appear unapproachable, try reading the introduction of the associated chapter in Ghezzi et al.

Week 1

• Tuesday: Introduction (papers do not need to be read)
  
  • 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), reference only
  • The class web pages.

• Thursday: Problems I
  
  • N.G. Leveson and C.S. Turner, An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents, Computer, vol. 26, no. 7, pages 18-41, July 1993.
  • F.P. Brooks, No Silver Bullet--Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering, Computer, 20(4), 1987. (also a Chapter from The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1995.)
  
  

Week 2

• Tuesday: Problems II
  
  • B.W. Boehm, Software Engineering Economics, Prentice-Hall, 1981. (Chapters 1 and 2) - reading provided via e-mail
    

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

Week 3

• Tuesday: Requirements - Scenario and Metaphorical Design
  
  • J.M. Carroll, Making Use a Design Representation, Communications of the ACM, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 28-35, Dec. 1994.
  • K.H. Madsen, A Guide to Metaphorical Design, Communications of the ACM, vol. 37, no. 12, Dec. 1994.

• Thursday: Requirements - 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.

Week 4

• Tuesday: Requirements III - Participatory Design
  
  • E. Carmel et al., PD and Joint Application Design: A Transatlantic Comparison, Communications of the ACM, June 1993.
  • Assorted surrounding side-bars from same June 1993 CACM special issue: Intro, sidebar 1, sidebar 2.
  • F. Kensing and K.H. Madsen, Generating Visions: Future Workshops and Metaphorical Design, Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems, Chapter 8, L. Erlbaum Associates, 1991.

• Thursday: Requirements - Domain Analysis
  
  • J. Rumbaugh et al., Object-oriented Modeling and Design, Prentice Hall, 1991. (Chapters 2-3, 7-8.4)
  • See also:
    • UML.org
    • Rational's Universal Modelling Language (UML) Resource Center

Week 5: Specification and Design

• Tuesday: Specification
  • C. Ghezzi, et al. (Chapter 5 through 5.7.1, skip subsection 5.5.3)
    

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

Week 6: Design and Testing

• Tuesday: Design II - Software Architecture and Layering
  
  • 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.
    

• Thursday: Testing and Verification
  
  • C. Ghezzi, et al. (Chapter 6)
    

Week 7: 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 1-15)

• Thursday: Case Study - Microsoft
  
  • M.A. Cusumano and R.W. Selby, How Microsoft Builds Software, Communications of the ACM, pp. 53-61, June 1997.

Week 8 - Advanced Topics in Modularity

• Tuesday: Advanced Modularity (Bill G. to present)
  
  • 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.
  • W. G. Griswold, J. J. Yuan, Y. Kato, Exploiting the Map Metaphor in a Tool for Software Evolution, Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Software Engineering, Toronto, IEEE, March, 2001.

• Thursday: Design III - Design Microstructure
  • E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson and J. Vlissides, Design Patterns: Abstraction and Reuse of Object-Oriented Design, Proceedings of ECOOP '93, 1993. More information on patterns is available.
  • 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.

Week 9: Current Models of Software Development - Rad or Fad?

• Tuesday: Agile Software Process
  • Extreme Programming -- A Gentle Introduction
  • Extreme Programming (Wikipedia)
  • Scrum (Wikipedia)
  • Test-Driven Development (Wikipedia)
  • M.A. Cusumano, Extreme programming compared with Microsoft-style iterative development, Communications of the ACM, pp. 15-18, October 2007.

• Thursday: Open Source
  
  • E. S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar. (Open Source)
    • Microsoft "Halloween Memo"
    • Jamie Zawinski's grumblings about the problems with Mozilla

Week 10: Program Analysis

• Tuesday: Static Checking (Sorin Lerner presents)
  
  • Flanagan, Leino, Lillibridge, Nelson, Saxe, State, Extended Static Checking for Java, PLDI'02.

• Thursday: Advanced Language Support (Ranjit Jhala presents)
  
  • Killian, C. E., Anderson, J. W., Braud, R., Jhala, R., and Vahdat, A. M. 2007. Mace: language support for building distributed systems. 2007 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (San Diego, California, USA, June 10 - 13, 2007). PLDI '07. ACM, New York, NY, 179-188. URL
  • Charles Killian, James Anderson, Ranjit Jhala, and Amin Vahdat. "Life, Death, and the Critical Transition: Finding Liveness Bugs in Systems Code", Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2007 (NSDI 2007). URL

Finals Week

• Project Demos and Postmortems
  

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