UVic Dept of Computer Science
SEng 371 Spring 2015
Welcome to our extravaganza in SEng 371, Software (R)evolution! This course is for fearless 3rd year undergrads.
| Date | Topics | Homework |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 5 | The Mythical Man Month | Post comments on The Tar Pit from MMM |
| Jan 7 | Dicussion of Tar Pit, Intro to ULSS | Post comments on Chapter 1 from Ultra Large Scale Systems |
| Jan 8 | Dicuss ULSS and Lab 1 | Chapter 2 MMM, Prepare for Lab |
| Jan 12 | Autonomic Andi! | Prepare for Lab 1 |
| Jan 14 | Discussion of ULS | Do not need to post |
| Jan 15 | Discussion of Laws of Evolution | Post Comments on MMM Chapter 2 |
| Jan 19 | Discussion of Laws of Evolution | Read and post comments on the evolution of the laws! |
| Jan 21 | Brooks' Law Debate! | Reading from CMU Changing Counterproductive Behaviors in Real Acquisitions |
| Jan 22 | Project Mania! | Questions and Data |
| Jan 26 | Evolution of the Laws of Evolution (cont!) | Prepare for Lab and think Projects! |
| Jan 28 | Software Evolution "now" | Read and post on [Past, Present and Future] (http://www.academia.edu/7296972/Software_Evolution_Past_Present_and_Future) and Chapter 3 MMM |
| Jan 29 | Socio-Technical Ecosystems | Your Projects! |
| Feb 2 | MicroSoft (Rob) | Post comments on Chapter 4 MMM |
| Feb 4 | HootSuite (Adam and Toby) | Post comments on skills and UVic... |
| Feb 5 | Data sets for [Software Evolution] (http://www.academia.edu/7463067/Understanding_Software_Evolution_The_Maisqual_Ant_Data_Set) | Don't forget to post! |
| Feb 9/11/12 | Reading Break and Project extravaganza! | |
| Feb 16 | Project Scrum | What is your biggest obstacle? |
| Feb 18 | Midterm review | Mythical Man Month chapters and Evolution readings |
| Feb 19 | Midterm | |
| Feb 23 | Contructing the Dream Recruiting Event! | Inverted Career Fair (save the date, April 21 7pm!) |
| Feb 25 | Samsung (Frank Tip) | ECS 660 for [talk] (https://github.com/ycoady/UVic-Software-Evolution/blob/master/TALKS/FrankTip.md) on this work ! |
| Mar 2/4/5 | Project 1 Presentations! | 10 minutes, laptop/blackboard |
| Mar 9 | Is [refactoring] (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.03526v1.pdf) worth it? | Cool discussion of [inline] (http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.html), and post for Wed! |
| Mar 11 | Software [story lines] (http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/papers/softvis2010.pdf) | Post for Fri! |
| Mar 12 | Evolving Project 1! | How will you measure the efficacy of your plan? |
| Mar 16 | [Socio-technical Coordination] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0CSnYvd0C4#t=1857) | Come to the talk if you can! |
| Mar 18 | [Untangling Fine Grained Changes] (http://www.gousios.gr/pub/fine-untangling.pdf) | Post for Friday! |
| Mar 23 | sendwithus tutorial for Heroku | Please bring a laptop! |
| Mar 25 | [Untangling Fine Grained Changes] (http://www.gousios.gr/pub/fine-untangling.pdf) and Midterm Review | Midterm Thurs! |
| Mar 26 | Midterm II | |
| Mar 30, Apr 1, 2 | Final project presentations |