Readings and Schedule

Note: Unless otherwise stated, a class meeting format is ``discussion''. Details on the presentation format or the ``required'' status of a particular reading is subject to change.

Week 0: Introduction

• Th 9/22 (Readings strictly optional - Griswold presents with discussion)
  • W.W. Gibbs, Software's Chronic Crisis, Scientific American, pages 72-81, September, 1994.
  • L.A. Belady and M.M. Lehman, A Model of Large Program Development. IBM Systems Journal, 15(3), 1976.
  • D.L. Parnas, Why Software Jewels are Rare, Computer, 29(2), 1996.

Week 1: Early History of Modularity

• Tu 9/27
  • D. L. Parnas, Information Distribution Aspects of Design Methodology. Proceedings of the IFIP Congress, vol. 1, pp. 339-344, 1971.
  • D. Parnas, On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules, Communications of the ACM, 15 (12), 1972.

• Th 9/29 (read aloud in class; pre-read if never had OS)
  • Dijkstra, E. W. 1968. The structure of the .THE.-multiprogramming system. Commun. ACM 11, 5 (May. 1968), 341-346. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/363095.363143

Week 2: Object Orientation and Modularity

• Tu 10/4 - OO: Language Issues
  • Wegner, P. 1987. Dimensions of object-based language design. In Conference Proceedings on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications (Orlando, Florida, United States, October 04 - 08, 1987). N. Meyrowitz, Ed. OOPSLA '87. ACM, New York, NY, 168-182. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/38765.38823 (background)
  • Snyder, A. 1986. Encapsulation and inheritance in object-oriented programming languages. In Conference Proceedings on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications (Portland, Oregon, United States, September 29 - October 02, 1986). N. Meyrowitz, Ed. OOPLSA '86. ACM, New York, NY, 38-45. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/28697.28702 (main reading)
  • Liskov, B. 1987. Keynote address - data abstraction and hierarchy. In Addendum To the Proceedings on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications (Addendum) (Orlando, Florida, United States, October 04 - 08, 1987). L. Power and Z. Weiss, Eds. OOPSLA '87. ACM, New York, NY, 17-34. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/62138.62141 (for clarification of second reading)
• Th 10/6 - OO: Design
  • J. Rumbaugh et al., Object-oriented Modeling and Design, Prentice Hall, 1991. (Chapters 2-3, 7-8.4)

Week 3

• Tu 10/11 - OO Design II: Pre-/post-condition semantics revisited
  • Meyer, B. 1992. Applying "Design by Contract". Computer 25, 10 (Oct. 1992), 40-51. DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/2.161279

• Th 10/13 - Design Rules I
  • Chapter 2 of: C.Y. Baldwin and K.B. Clark, Design Rules: The Power of Modularity, vol. 1, MIT Press, 2000.

Week 4

• Tu 10/18 - Design Rules II
  • Chapter 3 of: C.Y. Baldwin and K.B. Clark, Design Rules: The Power of Modularity, vol. 1, MIT Press, 2000.

• Tu 10/20 - Design Rules III
  • Sullivan, K. J., Griswold, W. G., Cai, Y., and Hallen, B. 2001. The structure and value of modularity in software design. In Proceedings of the 8th European Software Engineering Conference Held Jointly with 9th ACM SIGSOFT international Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (Vienna, Austria, September 10 - 14, 2001). ESEC/FSE-9. ACM, New York, NY, 99-108. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/503209.503224

Week 5: Software Architecture

• Th 10/25 - Software Architecture I
  • 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.

• Th 10/27 - Design Session
  • Preparation materials sent by e-mail

Week 6: Software Architecture, take II

• Tu 11/1 - Architecture vs. Components
  • D. Garlan, R. Allen and J. Ockerbloom, Architectural Mis-match: Why Reuse is So Hard. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-17), April 1995. More information on the ABLE project is available.
    
    

• Th 11/3 - Micro Architecture
  • E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson and J. Vlissides, Design Patterns: Abstraction and Reuse of Object-Oriented Design. In Proceedings of ECOOP '93, 1993. More information on patterns is available here.
  • 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 7: Aspect-Oriented Programming

• Tu 11/8
  • G. Kiczales, J. Lamping, A. Mendhekar, C. Maeda, C. Lopes, J. M. Loingtier, and J. Irwin, Aspect-Oriented Programming, 11th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Springer-Verlag, pp. 220-242, June, 1997.
  • Kiczales, G., Hilsdale, E., Hugunin, J., Kersten, M., Palm, J., and Griswold, W. 2001. Getting started with ASPECTJ. Commun. ACM 44, 10 (Oct. 2001), 59-65. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/383845.383858

• Th 11/10
  • Sullivan, K., Griswold, W., Rajan, H., Song, Y., Cai, Y., Shonle, M., and Tewari, N. 2010. Modular aspect-oriented design with XPIs. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 20, 2 (Aug. 2010), 1-42. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1824760.1824762

Week 8

• Tu 11/15
  • G. Kiczales, Beyond the Black Box: Open Implementation. Software, IEEE, January 1996.
  • G. Kiczales, J. Lamping, C.V. Lopes, C. Maeda, A. Mendhekar, and G. Murphy, Open Implementation Design Guidelines, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 481-490, April 1997. LINK

• Th 11/17 - Layering from the top down
  • Hayes, J., Griswold, W. G., and Moskovics, S. 2000. Component design of retargetable program analysis tools that reuse intermediate representations. In Proceedings of the 22nd international Conference on Software Engineering (Limerick, Ireland, June 04 - 11, 2000). ICSE '00. ACM, New York, NY, 356-365. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/337180.337221

Week 9

• Tu 11/22 - TBD

• Th 11/24 Thanksgiving Holiday!

Week 10: Tools, Inside and Out

• Tu 11/29 - Refactoring, Fluid, and ...
  • Shonle, M., Griswold, W. G., and Lerner, S. 2007. Beyond refactoring: a framework for modular maintenance of crosscutting design idioms. In Proceedings of the the 6th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 03 - 07, 2007). ESEC-FSE '07. ACM, New York, NY, 175-184. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1287624.1287650

• Th 12/1 TBD

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