Syllabus
CSE 5325: Software Engineering
Management, Maintenance, and Quality Assurance
Section 001; Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM; NH 111
Instructor: Bahram Khalili; PhD
E-Mail: khalili@uta.edu
Website: http://ranger.uta.edu/~khalili
Phone: 817-272-5407
Office Location: ERB 629
Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 11:00 - 12:30 PM or by Appointment
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GTA Information:
Name: Mr. Michael Ho
E-Mail: michael.ho22@mavs.uta.edu
Phone: 682-240-2433
Office Location: ERB 513
Office Hours: MW 12:30 - 2:00 PM
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Required Textbook: Software Engineering: Principles and Practice; Hans Van Vliet; 3rd Edition; John Wiley & Sons
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Course Description from University Catalog:
Issues and principles for software management; managerial and support aspects of software projects, including: processes, estimation techniques, planning and scheduling, risk analysis, metrics, and quality assurance. Other topics include: configuration management, verification and validation, and maintenance; team project.
Course Objective and Assessment:
This course will cover various software engineering principles and techniques from a project management point of view. The course coverage will include, but not limited to, the following topics:
Software Engineering: Definitions and Life Cycles
Project Management: Definitions, Issues and Challenges
Software Cost estimation
Project Planning and Scheduling
Risk Analysis
Metrics
Testing and Quality Assurance
Project Maintenance
For each of the above topics, students will learn the basics and practice them via assignments/project. Students' knowledge will be tested via appropriate exam and/or assignment questions. All students will be required to participate in presenting a portion of their assignments/project in this class.
Grading Policy:
Mid-term Exam 30%
Final Exam 30%
Assignments/Project 30%
Presentations 10%
Grade Distribution:
A = 100 to 90, B = 89 - 75, C = 74 - 60, D = 59 - 50, F = 49 and Below
Attendance:
Attendance is mandatory in this class. If you can not make it to any lecture, you must inform me via e-mail prior to the start of that lecture. E-mails after the lecture is over is not acceptable. Emergency situations will be reviewed per specific circumstance. If you miss more than 3 lectures without prior notification, excluding the emergency situations, you may receive a failing grade or reduction in your course grade.
General Policies:
Students are responsible for checking this web site frequently for course related material and announcements. This site will be the primary form of communication for the course unless otherwise specified.
Please use "CSE 5325" in the Subject line of all e-mail correspondence.
Any homework or projects assigned is due at the end of the class on the due date. There is a 10% penalty for every 24 hours being late, or fraction thereof, beyond the deadline. Maximum latency is 5 days beyond which a grade of zero will be assigned.
No make up exams or assignments will be given.
You may select any tools/language/systems to implement your assignments/project. This course focuses on the management aspects of software engineering, hence will not teach any programming languages or tools..
All exams are closed book.
The instructor reserves the right to modify the policies, calendar, assignments, slides or due dates if necessary.
Faculty are required by law to provide "reasonable accommodation" to students with disabilities, so as not to discriminate because of that disability. Student responsibility primarily rests with informing faculty at the beginning of the semester and in providing authorized documentation through designated administrative channels.
Academic Integrity:
It is the philosophy of The University of Texas at Arlington that academic dishonesty is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Anyone involved in academic dishonesty will be disciplined in accordance with University regulations and procedures, possibly including suspension or expulsion from the University. "Scholastic dishonesty includes but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, the submission for credit of any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person, taking an examination for another person, any act designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to commit such acts. Please refer to the university's policy in this regards at http://www.uta.edu/conduct/academic-integrity/index.php