SWE 619 Course Schedule



Syllabus Updates

   OO Software Specification and Construction
Spring 2013


 Meeting  Date Topic Reading Assignment Due Quizzes  
1 January 24 Class Overview JUnit    
2 January 31 Procedural Abstraction; Exceptions Liskov 1 Liskov 2-3 Liskov 4 Bloch 9 Assignment 1 Guide 1
3 February 7 Data Abstraction Liskov 5.1-5.4 Assignment 2 Guide 2
4 February 14 Reasoning About Data Abstraction Liskov 5.5-5.10 Assignment 3 Guide 3
5 February 21 Iteration Abstraction; Method Guidelines Liskov 6 Bloch 7 Assignment 4 Guide 4
6 February 28 Type Abstraction; Enums and Annotations Liskov 7 Bloch 6 Assignment 5 Guide 5
7 March 7 Polymorphic Abstraction, Generics Liskov 8 Bloch 5 Assignment 6 Guide 6
  March 14   No Class - Spring Break    
8 March 21 Concurrency General Concurrency , Bloch 10 Assignment 7 Guide 7
9 March 28 Specification Checking; Temporal Logic Slides from Kansas State University: Foundations Temporal Logic Patterns Assignment 8 Guide 8
10 April 4 Common Java Contracts, Classes and Interfaces, JavaDoc Bloch 3 Bloch 4 JavaDoc Assignment 9 Guide 9
11 April 11 Object Initialization, General Programming, Testing Bloch 2, Bloch 8, Model Driven Test Design, Agile Development Assignment 10 Guide 10
12 April 18 Design Patterns, Parameterized Unit Testing with Contracts Liskov 15 Advanced JUnit Tao Xie's Mutation Workshop slides Assignment 11 Guide 11
13 April 25 Specifications, Security Liskov 9 Gary McGraw's Security Taxonomy Assignment 12 Guide 12
14 May 2 Course Wrap Up 619 Review Slides Assignment 13 Guide 13
15 May 9 Final Exam      


Schedule Notes

Except for the first class, I expect students to have completed the reading prior to class on the date listed. Quizzes may occasionally take advantage of this expectation.

Homework assignments are due on the date listed. Quizzes are posted, with solutions, on Blackboard following the class in which the quiz is given.