Software Engineering, mvk10
OBS: The following information is supplied with reservation for changes during the course.
Overview
The course DD1365 aims to introduce students to the theory and practise of software engineering.
The main activities are: formal lectures, invited industrial speakers, and a group project.
It will be *compulsory* for most students to subsequently take the course DD143X in order to finish the group project.
Performance on the course for individuals will be assessed by the grade
awarded for the group project. There is no formal examination.
For KTH Students The group project gives a total of 15hp of which 6 hp are returned under DD1365 (for the PPD and URD)
and 9hp are returned in DD143X (for (i) the SRD, (ii) the ADD and (iii) the final application).
For SU Students The group project gives a total of 12hp of which 6 hp are returned under DD1365 (for the PPD and URD)
and 6hp are returned in DD143X (for participating in any two out of (i) the SRD, (ii) the ADD and (iii) the final application).
Both courses (DD1365 and DD143x) now return a grade
of A-F in accordance with the Bologna model. The grade returned is the *average grade* achieved over the life of the entire
project. Individual course deliverables receive a grade of U/G/VG.
Latest News
- 2011-05-20: Final project report should be sent by email as a pdf file to your project examiner (and with cc to Lars Kjelldahl, who will collect all the reports for archival purposes) not later than 31th May.
- 2011-04-19: There will be no lecture on Tuesday 26th April. I have tried to arrange an industrial lecture for this day. However, at the last moment I have been let down, and there is not enough time to arrange a replacement lecturer. Sorry for this. The next class will be Tuesday 3rd May when I will discuss final project presentations.
- 2011-02-17: I have added yesterdays slides on IT project risk, and also the CMU and US State of Texas risk taxonomy checklists. Please see the "Lecture Notes" and "Documents and Templates" sections below.
- 2011-01-04: I have added the project course timetable for weeks 3 to 19. Please see "Timetable" section below.
- 2010-12-20: I have put a new version of the project handbook on this webpage. It clarifies some small issues with the SRD and ADD (no major changes). It also specifies all remaining project deadlines. Please download and study!
- 2010-12-07: The hand-in deadline for the SRD is Friday 4th February during the lecture that takes place between 13.15 and 15.00 in E1.
- 2010-11-09: I have made an allocation of 10 projects to 11 groups, Group/project: IGroup/3, Alfa/27, Schackgruppen/28, Nyx/10, EASE/17, Tangentbordsvirtuoserna/7, Team Kappa/21, Dexoro/18, Glow/4, Bright/4, FraSwe/2, /Lars Kjelldahl
- 2010-11-08: Karl Meinke will be away this week
- 2010-11-05, at 16: I have received 8 priority lists by deadline (groups: IGroup, Alfa, Schackgruppen, Nyx, EASE, Tangentbordsvirtuoserna, Team Kappa, Dexoro). There should be a couple of groups more. I am afraid I have to allocate the projects using the priorities received before deadline - there are however many interesting projects among the 20 remaining proposals. /Lars Kjelldahl
- 2010-11-03: Project proposals can be found here.
- 2010-10-21 Please register yourself for this course within NADA as soon as possible, using the Unix command:
res checkin mvk10.
NB: We have changed to the new rapp system, which uses a www interface. More information on this later.
References
Requirements Management and UML
- UML provides may languages for modelling business models,
companies, problems and program designs. The notation is summarised here by Allen Holub.
- A UML tutorial
Architectures and Design Patterns
Detailed Design and Coding
- JavaDoc important for
creating easy to read and well structured programs.
Project Management
- An excellent portal for online resources on project management
and software engineering is
gantthead.com
- A gentle introduction to extreme programming.
- A question I am often asked is: "aren't there any lightweight lifecycle models?".
Here is the ultimate lightweight model (RUP inspired) for a 1 man/week project.
- Here is an extensive survey of OO lifecycle models (and much more!)
prepare to be
overwhelmed!!!.
Registration
For us to report your lab work and exam marks you *must* register
yourself for this course. You can do this from a CSC Unix terminal
by using the command
res checkin mvk10.
In order to receive your course points it is also necessary that your "kansli"
has registered that this course belongs to your choice of courses. Check this
with Ping if you are unsure!
Course Evaluation
We are happy to receive suggestions for improvements to this course. During period 4
a course evaluation
questionnaire will be distributed.
Literature
Main Literature
- Ian Sommerville: Software Engineering, Addison Wesley, ninth edition. The most popular introductory
book worldwide and recommended text book for the course.
Additional literature
- Bob Hughes, Mike Cotterell, Software Project Management, McGraw Hill, third edition, 2002. This is the best among the books I have seen on this subject. Practical and useful.
- I. K. Bray, An Introduction to Requirements Engineering, Addison Wesley 2002.
- Soren Lauesen, Software Requirements, Styles and Techniques, Addison Wesley, 2002. This is an excellent practical "how to" book on requirements engineering.
- Mark Priestley, Practical Object-Oriented Design with UML, McGraw Hill, 2000. In my opinion the most
accurate account of UML's many languages.
- Some of the course material will also be made available on the web.
Timetable
The course DD1363 mvk10 runs during period 2, 2010, while the follow up course DD143X runs during periods 3 and 4, 2011.
| Kurs | | DD1365 | | Mjukvarukonstruktion | | |
| Course | | DD143X | | Examensarbete inom Datalogi | | |
| Week 3, 2011 |
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Tue |
Jan 18 |
11:00-12:00 |
Frl |
F2 |
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Examensarbete inom Datalogi |
Examensarbete inom datalogi |
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| Week 4, 2011 |
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Tue |
Jan 25 |
15:00-17:00 |
Frl |
E1 |
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|
Examensarbete inom Datalogi |
Examensarbete inom datalogi |
| |
| Week 5, 2011 |
| |
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Fri |
Feb 4 |
15:00-17:00 |
Frl |
D2 |
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|
Examensarbete inom Datalogi |
Examensarbete inom datalogi |
| |
| Week 6, 2011 |
| |
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Wed |
Feb 9 |
15:00-17:00 |
Frl |
D2 |
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|
Examensarbete inom Datalogi |
Examensarbete inom datalogi |
| |
| Week 7, 2011 |
| |
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Wed |
Feb 16 |
15:00-17:00 |
Frl |
D2 |
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Examensarbete inom Datalogi |
Examensarbete inom datalogi |
| |
| Week 8, 2011 |
| |
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Wed |
Feb 23 |
15:00-17:00 |
Frl |
D1 |
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|
Examensarbete inom Datalogi |
Examensarbete inom datalogi |
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| Week 9, 2011 |
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Wed |
Mar 2 |
15:00-17:00 |
Frl |
D2 |
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|
Examensarbete inom Datalogi |
Examensarbete inom datalogi |
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| Week 17, 2011 |
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Tue |
Apr 26 |
15:00-17:00 |
Frl |
D2 |
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Examensarbete inom Datalogi |
Examensarbete inom datalogi |
| |
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Wed |
Apr 27 |
08:00-17:00 |
WS |
V32, V34, V35 |
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Examensarbete inom Datalogi |
Examensarbete inom datalogi |
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| Week 18, 2011 |
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Tue |
May 3 |
15:00-17:00 |
Frl |
K1 |
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Examensarbete inom Datalogi |
Examensarbete inom datalogi |
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| Week 19, 2011 |
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Tue |
May 10 |
15:00-17:00 |
Frl |
D1 |
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Examensarbete inom Datalogi, Examensarbete inom datalogi |
Examensarbete inom Datalogi, Examensarbete inom datalogi |
Course Objectives
Take a good look at the
course objectives. These should help you
understand what you get out of attending the course, and how your project will be graded.
Practical Project Work
The course DD1365 involves every student in a large IT development project.
Please note: it is difficult for you to join a project group after the course has started.
Therefore it is important that you take part in MVK from the very beginning of the course.
If you join the course late I cannot guarantee you a project place, and you may not be able to complete the course this year. This is a strict rule!
Here you can find the new
Project Handbook. Please note that this is work in progress. You can come back regularly to get updates.
which largely supercedes the old
guidelines for project work.
Here is an informal collection of legal advice for developing a
software licensing contract between you and your project supplier
(in Swedish only).
Please note that neither the course leader nor CSC nor KTH can take any legal responsibility for helping you to write an
appropriate software licensing agreement with your supplier. Nor can we take any responsibility should your agreement
go wrong. If you are concerned about this problem you should take independent legal advice from a qualified advisor.
Documents and Templates
The group project involves regular project reporting using a set of deliverables
that would normally be used in a waterfall style IT development project.
We use a set of document templates developed by the
European Space Agency (ESA)
for its IT projects.
Here you can find the
PSS-05 document templates
which I have annotated with extra student information for clarity.
You can find further information about PSS at the ESA website
PSS download page.
In general ESA does a large amount of high quality software engineering, and you should enjoy browsing their website for state of the art ideas.
Here you can find the
CMU-SEI risk taxonomy
and the
State of Texas, Dept. of Information Resources risk taxonomy
that were handed out in class.
Lecture Notes
| Lecture | Contents |
|---|
| Lecture 1, Tue 2010-10-26
.pdf file .pptx file |
Introduction to course and project work |
| Lecture 2, Tue 2010-11-02 no slides
| Presentation of projects |
| Lecture 3, Wed 2010-11-03
.html file
| Discussion of project planning phase
|
| Lecture 4, Tue 2010-11-09
.pdf file
.pptx file
| Software process models |
Lecture 5, Wed 2010-11-10
.pdf file
.pptx file
|
Software process models (continued) |
| Lecture 6, Tue 2010-11-16 no slides
|
Project PPD presentations |
Lecture 7, Wed 2010-11-17
.pdf file
.pptx file
|
Software process models (continued) |
| Lecture 8, Tue 2010-11-23
.pdf file
.pptx file
| User requirements |
Lecture 9, Wed 2010-11-24
.pdf file
.pptx file
|
PSS-05 URD template presentation |
| Lecture 10, Tue 2010-11-30
.pdf file
.ppt file
| Use cases and UML sequence diagrams (basic) |
| Lecture 11, Wed 2010-12-01
.pdf file
.ppt file
| UML sequence diagrams (constructions) and LSCs |
| Lecture 12, Wed 2010-12-07
no slides
| Project URD presentations |
| Lecture 13, Wed 2011-01-25
.pdf file
.pptx file |
Software Requirements Phase |
| Lecture 14, Fri 2011-02-04
no slides
| Project SRD presentations |
| Lecture 15, Wed 2011-02-09
.pdf file
.pptx file
| Architectural Design Phase |
| Lecture 16, Wed 2011-02-16
.pdf file
.pptx file
| IT Project Risk |
| Lecture 17, Wed 2011-05-03
.pdf file
.pptx file
| Project Demo Guidelines |
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