Advanced Software Engineering
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The Robert H. Buckman College of Engineering Online Education Program
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Advanced Software Engineering
ECE50874
Credit Hours:
3
Description:
Software engineering is a complex endeavor. Software engineers work in diverse teams to create and comprehend complex information, such as: code structure, implementation rationale, dynamic software behavior, change implications, and team dynamics. In this class, we will learn modern software engineering practices and discuss state-of-the-art research in software engineering. The students will work on research projects to understand and extend the state of the art in software engineering.
Topics Covered:
- Software process and lifecycle: Requirements analysis, design, testing, release, maintenance
- Empirical software engineering; socio-technical approaches and findings
- Reuse-oriented programming and open-source software (e.g. code search, trust)
- Security and automated testing tools (static/dynamic/fuzzing)
- Software improvement (code clones, similarity detection)
- Software archaeology and code comprehension
- Software 2.0; AI and machine learning
Prerequisites:
Undergraduates: ECE 368 and another programming-intensive course: One of ECE 30862 (OOP), 461 (SE), 463 (Networks) 468 (Compilers), 469 (OS), comparable course from CS with instructor approval, or comparable experience (e.g. programming-intensive internship; substantial outside projects
Graduate students: No formal prerequisites, but appropriate programming experience will be essential to understand the material.
Applied / Theory:
Homework:
Approximately 6 homework assignments
Projects:
1 semester-long project
Exams:
1 midterm exam
Textbooks:
Required:
Winters, Titus, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright, and Safari, an O’Reilly Media Company. Software Engineering at Google. 1st ed. 2020.
Sommerville, Ian. Software Engineering. 10th ed. Pearson India; 2018.
Recommended Reference:
Brooks, Frederick P. The Mythical Man-month: Essays on Software Engineering. Anniversary ed. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Pub., 1995.
Computer Requirements:
Instructor(s)
James Davis
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- Aeronautics & Astronautics
- Autonomy
- Biomedical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Doctor of Engineering
- Dual Degree MSE+MBA
- Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Engineering Education
- Industrial Engineering
- Interdisciplinary Engineering
- Internet of Things
- Mechanical Engineering
- Microelectronics & Semiconductors
- Nuclear Engineering
- Robotics
- Software Engineering
- Systems Engineering
Graduate Certificate & Non-Degree Admissions Information
- Non-Degree (Course Only)
- Applied Heat Transfer
- Digital Signal Processing
- Noise Control
- Teaching and Learning in Engineering
- Systems
- Regulatory Affairs and Regulatory Science for Medical Devices
- Graduate Certificate in Microelectronics and Semiconductors