Welcome to CS 362 Software Engineering II!

Course Details

Communication is key for success, never hesitate or wait to reach out to your fellow students or to your teacher or teaching assistants. Here are the best ways:

• Ask questions during class or come find the teacher at the end of class.
• Use the Canvas discussion boards, it will serve everyone.
• Email the teacher or teaching assistants and put CS362 in the email subject.
• Schedule an in-person or online appointment with the teacher or teaching assistants, or come during office hours.

The teacher and TAs do not typically work on the weekends or holidays.

Office Hours and Contact Details

Introduction to the "back end" of the software engineering lifecycle implementation; verification and validation; debugging; maintenance.

• Software Project Management
  • Risk management
  • Managing people
  • Teamwork
• Project Planning
  • Software project scheduling
  • Software project cost estimation
• Software Testing
  • Validation and Verification
  • Development testing
  • Test-driven development
  • Release testing
  • User testing
• Quality Management
  • Software quality
  • Software standards
  • Reviews and inspections
  • Software measurement and metrics

The objective of this course is to introduce a limited number of concepts and practices related to software project management, software testing processes and quality management.

When the students complete the course, they will:

• know the principal tasks of software project managers;
• have been introduced to the notion of risk management and some of the risks that can arise in software projects;
• understand factors that influence personal motivation and what these might mean for software project managers;
• understand key issues that influence team working, such as team composition, organization, and communication.
• understand the stages of testing from testing during development to acceptance testing by system customers;
• have been introduced to techniques that help you choose test cases that are geared to discovering program defects;
• understand test-first development, where you design tests before writing code and run these tests automatically;
• know about three distinct types of testing—component testing, system testing, and release testing;
• understand the distinctions between development testing and user testing.
• have been introduced to the quality management process and know why quality planning is important;
• be aware of the importance of standards in the quality management process and know how standards are used in quality assurance;
• understand how reviews and inspections are used as a mechanism for software quality assurance;
• understand how quality management in agile methods is based on the development of a team quality culture;
• understand how measurement may be helpful in assessing some software quality.

There are four total assignments to be completed over the course of this class. Assignments might include a mixture of written documents, drawings, and code submissions. You'll have about a week to complete one assignment.

There is one midterm exam for this course. The test is take-home and is open everything except other students. It will not be conducted in person, will not be proctored, and no lecture will be given on or near the day it's assigned. You'll have about a week to complete it.

The final is in the same format as the midterm exam.

There won't be a curve applied to the grading of this course, nor is there any rounding or weighting of assignments and/or the final. The points you see in the assignments are the points available, including in the table below. The grading scale is as follows, and will be adhered to strictly (I have already taken into account some pretty generous rounding), so please don't ask for "just a few more points":

• 91.5 ≤ A ≤ 100
• 89.5 ≤ A- < 91.5
• 87.5 ≤ B+ < 89.5
• 81.5 ≤ B < 87.5
• 79.5 ≤ B- < 81.5
• 77.5 ≤ C+ < 79.5
• 71.5 ≤ C < 77.5
• 69.5 ≤ C- < 71.5
• 67.5 ≤ D+ < 69.5
• 61.5 ≤ D < 67.5
• 59.5 ≤ D- < 61.5
• 0 ≤ F < 59.5

In programming assignments, any crashes, hangs, errors, infinite loops, etc. not covered in the grading instructions will cause your program to lose points, despite the rubric. The amount lost depends on the severity, how much it affects the rest of the program, and how it is recovered from, if at all, all based on the discretion of the grader.

If you believe a grade returned to you is incorrect, please submit proof to your grader within 48 hours of the grade being received by you. Your proof must consist of screenshots (not a copy/paste of the text) that clearly show things working on your end. Your screenshots must show the places where the grading has been done incorrectly on our end, if any, and this grading must be done on the submission that you have made (i.e., redownload it yourself from Canvas to make these screenshots). If you don't provide proof, or if you ask for a regrade past 48 hours of the grade being given, a regrade won't be done.

The late work policy is lenient for this course. Each day your assignment is late its grade will be reduced by 10%. Maximum of 4 days late, afterwards the grade is zero.

If there is a planned exculpatory reason as to why your assignment will be late (e.g., job interview with travel, etc.), you must contact the instructor via email at least 48 hours before the assignment due date. Otherwise, no extensions will be given. Unacceptable reasons for late extensions include being busy in other classes and data loss—make backups of your work. Emergencies, sickness, etc. are exempt from the 48-hour rule.

Required: None

Optional:

• Software Engineering, 10th Ed., by Ian Sommerville
• Software Engineering at Google, 1st Ed.
• Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWBOK)

Worth-browsing repositories:

• Awesome Engineering Management
• Awesome Quality Assurance Roadmap
• Awesome Testing
• How They Test

You can expect me:

• To start and end class on time.
• To assign homework that adequately covers the material and meets the learning objectives of the course while adhering to the time expectations.
• To give exams that accurately reflect the material covered in class and assigned in homework.

I can expect you:

• To know and abide by the rules in this syllabus.
• To attend class.
• To be attentive and engaged in class.
• To spend an adequate amount of time on the homework each week.
• To engage with both the abstract and computational sides of the material.
• To be curious.
• To seek help when appropriate, early and often.

According to OSU Catalog, one credit is generally given for three hours per week of work in and out of class. Each hour of class lecture is therefore expected to require two hours of work outside of class. Since CS 362 is a 4-credit course, students should expect to spend, on average, about 12 hours per week inclusive of in-class and out-of-class activities. It may take more than twelve hours per week to excel in this course.

Regular and punctual attendance is expected and is the student’s responsibility. A good engineer upholds professional conduct by being prompt. If this is not your habit, acquire it. It will help you in this class and in your career.

Students should not attend class or any public gatherings while ill with COVID-19, influenza, or any other contagion. Students with symptoms will be asked to leave the classroom or instructor’s office and return home for recovery. If you have COVID-19, influenza, or another virus or contagion, the illness and self-isolation period may be two weeks or longer. Most students should be able to complete a successful term despite such an absence. Students who are absent because of illness will be provided with a reasonable opportunity to make up missed work. Ordinarily, it is inappropriate to substitute for the missed assignment the weighting of a term's work that does not include the missed assignment or exam. Completion of all assignments and exams assures the greatest chance for students to develop heightened understanding and content mastery that is unavailable through the weighting process. The opportunity to complete all assignments and exams is intended to enable students to make responsible situational decisions, including the decision to avoid spreading a contagion to other students, staff, and faculty, without in any way endangering their academic opportunities and work. Students with a contagion do not need to provide a physician's certification of illness. Ill students should inform the teaching staff via email or through Canvas (but not through personal contact) as soon as possible that they will be absent because of an illness. The teaching staff will work with them to arrange to make up missed assignments or exams. The above considerations also apply if students are caring for someone that is ill. The Office of the Dean of Students can assist students if they are navigating a range of extenuating life circumstances including but not limited to prolonged illness, hospitalization, and financial concerns. They can be reached Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM by calling 541-737-8748 or emailing support.odos@oregonstate.edu.

In the event of a major campus emergency, course requirements, deadlines, and grading percentages are subject to change as may be necessitated by a revised term calendar or other circumstances. Email and Canvas will be used to provide information about changes in this course. Please review posted guides on emergency responses and emergency alert communication, and sign up for emergency alerts, at http://emergency.oregonstate.edu/.

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Professionalism in this course is as important as in the workplace and included such traits as preparation, productivity, and promptness. Cell phones, email, texting, and all other potential distractions will not be tolerated during regularly scheduled class meetings or during office hours.

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