SWE4203 - Software Evolution and Maintenance   Fall Term 2010

 

Approaches to maintenance and long-term software development.

Maintainability and reusability analysis. Reuse, reengineering and reverse engineering.

Change management, release and configuration management. Regression testing.

Prerequisite: CS3013 or CMPE 3213.              4ch (3C 3*L)

 

 

INSTRUCTOR:                     Yevgen Biletskiy                       e-mail:  biletski@unb.ca

                                                Office:  GWC115                     phone: 447-3495                   

 

LECTURES:                           MWF 11:30 a.m. H302

LABS:                                     TBA

 

TEXTBOOK REFERENCES:         

Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach

Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering

Hongji Yang, Martin Ward, Successful Evolution of Software Systems

Penny Grubb, Armstrong A. Takang, SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE. Concepts and Practice (Second Edition)

Pigoski “Practical Software Maintenance”

B.Bruegge, A.H.Dutoit, Object-Oriented Software Engineering: Using UML, Patterns, and JavaTM

 

GRADING: 

Labs/Project - 30%

Project Presentation – 10%

Advanced Topic Presentation - 10%

Test 1 - 25%  

Test 2 - 25%

 

Project Assignments - TBA

 

                    

PROPOSED SCHEDULE:

 

WEEK

 

 

TOPICS

READINGS

1

2

3

4

1-2

Review of the Software Engineering Process

2, 10-24

3, 5-20

 

 

3-4

Fundamentals of Software Evolution and Maintenance

Approaches to Maintenance and Long-term Software Development

Classification of Software Change

 

26, 27

1,2

I

5-7

The process  of Software Evolution and Maintenance: Reengineering, Reverse Engineering, Program Comprehension,  Reuse, Testing

Test1 – TBA

30

28

3

II

8-9

Managing the Maintenance Process

9

29

 

III,IV

10-13

Advanced and Future Technologies of Software Evolution and Maintenance

Student’s presentations

Test2 – TBA

 

 

 

V

 

Note that this schedule is not written in stone!  Topics may shift slightly depending on class progress.

 

Note that it is student’s responsibility to attend classes in order to obtain any information presented and/or announced in class.

 

 

General Regulations on Conduct

Part of the UNB's Mission is to provide an environment conducive to the development of the whole person.  All members of the University community - staff, faculty, students and administrators - have the right to work and/or study in an environment which affords them respect and dignity, and is free from danger, discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and behaviour which is destructive, disruptive, or unlawful.

 

PLAGIARISM (from pages 44-45 of 2005-2006 Undergraduate Calendar)

 

Plagiarism includes:

quoting verbatim or almost verbatim from a source (such as copyrighted material, notes, letters, business entries, computer materials, etc.) without acknowledgment;

adopting someone else’s line of thought, argument, arrangement, or supporting evidence (such as, for example, statistics, bibliographies, etc.) without indicating such dependence;

submitting someone else’s work, in whatever form (film, workbook, artwork, computer materials, etc.) without acknowledgment;

knowingly representing as one’s own work any idea of another.

 

NOTE:  In courses which include group work, the instructor must define and warn against plagiarism in group work.  Unless an act of plagiarism is identified clearly with an individual student or students, a penalty may be imposed on all members of the group.

 

Penalties for Deliberate Plagiarism

 

In a case of deliberate plagiarism, the penalties are:

 

First Offence:  If the student does not appeal, or if, on appeal, the Committee upholds the instructor’s decision:

A notation will be placed on the student’s transcript of academic record concerning the academic offence.  The length of time the notation appears on the student’s transcript of academic record is to be decided when the penalty is imposed and will depend on the severity of the offence.

The student may be required to submit a satisfactory and genuine piece of work to replace the one involving plagiarism.  If the assignment is not resubmitted or is unsatisfactory, the student will receive a grade of F (zero) in the course.  NOTE:  If this penalty is assessed, the period of time allowed for the submission of the work will be determined by the Registrar in consultation with the faculty member making the charge, and, where appropriate, the Committee.

The student will receive a grade of F (zero) on the piece of work and, depending on the severity of the offence, may receive a grade of F for the course.

Other penalties as outlined in penalties for Other Academic Offences may be imposed.

 

Subsequent Offence:  In cases where the Committee considers that the student has plagiarized again:

The student will receive a grade of F in the course and a notation of the academic offence will appear on the student’s transcript of record.  The length of time the notation appears on the student’s transcript of academic record is to be decided when the penalty is imposed.

Other penalties as outlined in penalties for Other Academic Offence may be imposed.

 

For further information on procedures for dealing with cases of plagiarism, students should refer to the regulations found in the Undergraduate Calendar.

 

 

DEFERRED EXAMS

 

University regulations on deferred exams are described in Section V.C of the current on-line Undergraduate Calendar.

All deferred exams in courses offered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are scheduled to be written on the fourth day of classes in the following term.  There are no exceptions.