Department of Computer Science

Michigan Technological University

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CS5711 - ADVANCED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Fall 2003

Reading List

Week 1 (Aug. 25): The Software Problem

• Levenson, "High-pressure Steam Engines and Computer Software," IEEE Computer, October 1994.

Week 2 (Sept. 1):

• Levenson and Turner, "An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents," IEEE Computer 26(7), July 1993

• Colwell, "Engineering Decisions," IEEE Computer , August 2003, 9-11.
• Fairley and Willshire, Why the Vasa Sank: 10 Problems and Some Antidotes for Software Projects," IEEE Software March/April 2003, 18-25.

Week 3 (Sept. 8):

• Brooks, "No Silver Bullet...," IEEE Computer 20(4), April 1987 -- Review --

• Harel, "Biting the Silver Bullet," IEEE Computer 25(1), January 1992

Week 4 (Sept. 15): Software Process

• Boehm, "Anchoring the Software Process," IEEE Software 13(4), July 1996.
  -- Presented by Ernie Fessendon
• Dogru and Tanik, "A Prcoess Model for Component-Oriented Software Engineering," IEEE Software, March/April 2003.
  -- Presented by Vijay Pallithekethil

• Murugappan and Keeni, "Blending CMM and Six Sigma to Meet Business Goals," IEEE Software, March/April 2003, 42-48.
  -- Presented by Joe Przywara
• French and Carvallo, "Using Quality Models in Software Package Selection," IEEE Software, January/February 2003, 34-41.
  -- Presented by Matt Fix

Week 5 (Sept. 22): Process/Extreme Programming

• Manzoni and Price, "Identifying Extensions Required by RUP to Comply with CMM Levels 2 and 3," IEEE TSE, 29(2), February 2003, 181-192. -- Review --

• Beck, "Embracing Change with Extreme Programming," IEEE Computer 32,10, October 1999.
  -- Presented by John Fisher
• Wood and Kleb, "Exploring XP for Scientific Reseearch," IEEE Software, May/June 2003.
  -- Presented by Alok Mishra

Week 6 (Sept. 29): XP/Requirements

• Paulk, "Extreme Programming from a CMM Perspective," IEEE Software, November/December 2001.
  -- Presented by Rahul Kirtane
• Poole and Huisman, "Using Extreme Programming in a Maintenance Environment," IEEE Software, November/December 2001.
  -- Presented by Nisha Oomen

• Lawrence, Wiegers, and Ebert, "The Top Risks of Requirements Engineering," IEEE Software, November/December 2001.
  -- Presented by Janne Antonsen
• Holtzblatt and Beyer, "Requirements Gathering: The Human Factor," IEEE Software, November/December 2001.
  -- Presented by Lior Shamir

Week 7 (Oct. 6): Requirements

• Beyer and Holtzblatt, "Apprenticing With the Customer," IEEE Software, November/December 2001.
• Lauesen, "Task Descriptions as Functional Requirements," IEEE Software, March/April 2003, 58-65.
  -- Review and Compare --

• Weber and Weisbrod, "Requirements Engineering in Automotive Development: Experiences and Challenges," IEEE Software , January/February 2003, 16-24.
  -- Presented by Saumil Shah
• Higgins, Laat, Gieles, and Geurts, "Managing Requirements for Medical IT Products," IEEE Software January/February 2003, 26-33.
  -- Presented by Hiromi Suenaga

Week 8 (Oct. 13): Architectural Design

• Shaw, "Comparing Architectural Design Styles", IEEE Software, November 1995.
  -- Presented by David Eade
• "Mobile Robotics", an example taken from Shaw and Garlan, Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline, Prentice Hall, 1996.
  -- Presented by Martin Rutyna

• Monroe, et al, "Architectural Styles, Design Patterns, and Objects", IEEE Software, January 1977.
  -- Presented by Li Li
• Xu and Shatz, "A Framework for Model-Based Design of Agent-Oriented Software," IEEE TSE, 29(1), January 2003, 15-30.
  -- Presented by Xin Bai

Week 9 (Oct. 20): Software Inspections

• Thelin, Runeson, and Wohlin, "Prioritized Use Cases as a Vehicle for Software Inspections," IEEE Software , July/August 2003, 30-33.
• Dunsmore, Roper, and Wood, "Prctical Code Inspection Techniques for Object-Oriented Systems: An Experimental Comparison," IEEE Software , July/August 2003, 21-29.
  -- Review and Compare --
  Additional references include:
• Thelin, Runeson and Wohlin, "An Experimental Comparison of Usage-Based and Checklist-Based Reding," IEEE TSE, 29(8), August 2003, 687-704.
• Dunsmore, Roper, and Wood, "The Development and Evaluation of Three Diverse Techniques for Object-Oriented Code Inspection," IEEE TSE, 29(8), August 2003, 677-686.

• Jacob and Pillani, "Statistical Process Control to Improve Coding and Code Review," IEEE Software , July/August 2003, 50-55.
  -- Presented by Abu Ashraf

Week 10 (Oct. 27): Testing

• Chen, Poon and Tse, "A Choice Relation Framework for Supporting Category-Partition Test Case Generation," IEEE TSE 29,(7), July 2003, 577-593.
  -- Presented by Ping Yang

• Long, Hoffman, Strooper, "Tool Support for Testing Concurrent Java Components," IEEE TSE 29,(6), June 2003, 555-566.
  -- Presented by Da Gao

Week 11 (Nov. 3): Measurement

• Bandi, Vaishnavi, and Turk, "Predicting Maintenance Performance Using Object-Oriented Design Complexity Metrics," IEEE TSE, 29(1), January 2003, 77-87.
  -- Review --

Week 12 (Nov. 10): Reengineering

• Eisenbarth, Koschke, and Simon, "Locating Features in Source Code," IEEE TSE , 29(3), March 2003, 210-224.
  -- Presented by Chris Pinnow

• Software Engineering for Parallel Computing
  -- Presented by Ernie Fessenden and Martin Rutyna

Week 13 (Nov. 17): Student Choice

• Bianchi, Caiveano, Marengo, and Visaggio, "Iterative Reengineering of Legacy Systems," IEEE TSE , 29(3), March 2003, 225-241.
  -- Presented by Yongqing Wang

• Synchronic Languages
  -- Presented by Nisha Oommen and Vijay Pallithekethil

Week 14 (Dec. 1): Student Choice

• Design Tools
  -- Presented by David Eade and Saumil Shah
• Software Safety
  -- Presented by John Fisher and Chris Pinnow

• Selection of Software from the Customer's Perspective
  -- Presented by Lior Shamir and Alok Mishra
• Comparison of Customer Centered Requirement Engineering Techniques
  -- Presented by Abu Ashraf and Rahul Kirtane

Week 15 (Dec. 8): Student Choice

• Engineering security into software
  -- Presented by Matt Fix and Hiromi Suenaga
• Experimental Design and Analysis in Software Engineering
  -- Presented by Janne Antonsen and Joe Przywara

• Software Reuse
  -- Presented by Da Gao and Li Li
• Computer-Aided Software Engineering
  -- Presented by Xin Bai, Ping Yang and Yongqing Wang