CS/SE 6354

Software Engineering (Research Track)

Instructor: Kendra Cooper

Office: EC South 3.206
Phone: 972 883 4216
e-mail: kcooper@utdallas.edu
Office Hours: Monday 2-4 pm

TA: TBD

e-mail:
office hours:

Course Advanced Software Engineering (3 semester hours) Introduction to

Description software life cycle models and overview of their stages. System and
(from the software requirements engineering, software architecture and design,
catalog): software testing, validation, and verification, software quality
assurance and metrics, software generation, maintenance, and
evolution, project planning, control, and management. Software
processes, CASE tools, software reuse, reverse engineering, and re-
engineering. (3-0)

Prerequisite: CS 5303, CS 5333 corequisite: CS 5343 (CS 5343 can be taken

before or at the same time as CS 6354)
Required Text Object-Oriented Software Engineering: Using UML, Patterns,
Book: and Java
2nd Edition
Bruegge and Dutoit
Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, September 25, 2003

Course Work & Homework Assignments (4)

Evaluation: Group project
Final exam

Course Web Site: www.utdallas.edu/~kcooper (not webct)

Course Grading: The final grade is calculated as follows:
20% Homework
40% Group project deliverables
40% Final
Incomplete The UTD undergraduate catalog contains the requirements and process to
status: apply for a grade of incomplete. Some valid reasons for an incomplete
include:
• Missing the final exam due to illness or death in the family
• Missing the final exam due to a job or school related business trip

Please note these cases MUST be verified in writing.

Add/Drop: The UTD undergraduate catalog contains the registration deadlines

 for adding and dropping courses. Each student is responsible for
following UTD’s registration policy and schedule.

Exam Dates: Final Exam As scheduled by The University in the final

exam week (2 hours)
Attendance: Attendance is expected. In the event of missing a lecture, the student is
responsible for promptly obtaining any handouts, announcements,
assignments, reading material, etc. covered in the lecture.

Required Required reading will be assigned from the text and selected papers.
Reading:
Additional Students are required to work in groups with 5-7 members for the group
Notes: project.

The final exam is written individually.

If you have a problem with your software engineering NT account, then

please send an e-mail to cs-tech@utdallas.edu

If you send me an e-mail, then please include “UTD” in the subject of the e-
mail.

Student Conduct and Discipline

The UTD undergraduate catalog contains the expectations for student conduct and discipline.
Students suspected of academic dishonesty (cheating, plagiarism, collusion and/or falsifying
academic records) are subject to disciplinary proceedings.

The policy is available at: http://www.utdallas.edu/student/slife/dishonesty.html

Do not copy material (from books, websites, other students, etc.)

Do not give your work to other students (not even "just to look at")

The scholastic dishonesty policy is rigorously enforced.