CS3141 Team Software Project

Fall 2013  - Section 1

 

Instructor		Ruihong Zhang
Office		Rekhi 302
Class Meeting		M,W,F 3:05pm – 3:55pm
Classroom		Rekhi 117
Office Hour		WMF 9:00 am – 10:00am or by appointment
Phone		(906) 482-1638
e-mail		Ruihong at mtu dot edu

Required Textbook:

No required textbook.

The lecture notes and online resources are sufficient for this class.

 

Recommended Reference Books:

 

1.     Software Engineering, Seventh Edition, by Ian Sommerville

 

 

2.     UML user guide, by Grady Booch, James, Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson

 

 

Course Description:
This course teaches practical techniques used in Software Engineering (SE) today. The focus is in object-oriented SE. Students will learn object-oriented SE techniques by acting as a team member on a realistic project.
 

Goals and Objectives

By the end of the term, each student should be able to:

To be able to work in a team on a large software project.

To understand the basic steps of large software project development.

To be able to effectively analyze a programming problem

To be able to effectively formulate use cases and scenarios

To be able to create class, object, use case, interface, and state machine diagrams in UML notation.

To be able to effectively design a solution to a programming problem.

To be able to assess risks of large software project.

 

 

Grading

As you should expect, the major contributor to your grade in this class will be your team project. Your grade will be determined roughly by the following weighted combination of criteria. 

30% Warm-up project

60% Team Project (click here for the grading template)

4%   Participation in peer performance evaluations 

6%   Final Report

 

 

Bonus:

      If you spend significant number of hours, the instructor will examine your timesheet log and give you some bonus point (up to 2 out of 100 points). In general, you are expected to work about 6-8 hours each week.

 

Late Policy

            Most team related assignments are allowed to be late for one work day. For example, if the due day is Friday 11:59pm, the cutoff date will be Monday 11:59pm. The team has to send the extension request to the instructor a day before due date.

 

            The request for more than one day extension will be granted only for special valid excuses.

 

Collaboration and Cheating

            Each team will start from scratch to develop its own software product.

            Teams are allowed to use open source application packages only after the approval of the instructor.

            You are NOT allowed to copy source code from others and call it yours after making no or minor changes.

            The same rule applies to all individual homework assignments.

 

            Please refer Academic Integrity Policy for details.

 

Exams and Final

            No exam. There is a final report that everyone has to finish individually.  

 

Team Assignment:

Each team will have 4-5 students

Team will be assigned randomly by the instructor unless requested by the end of week 4.

 

Project Requirement:

           

Please click here for detailed project requirement.

 

Project Document Check List for 2013 Fall – coming in before the end of week5

 

WARNING:

      One semester is a short period of time to develop a large scale project for a team of students taking many courses.

      You should plan to work 6-8 hours every week for this class.