CS 247 - Software Engineering Principles

Introduction

About these notes

A lot of the time, these notes will not be "comprehensive"

While these notes try to match what's happening in class, many times, especially when there are a lot of diagrams, I will just say to "look at the slides."

That said, enjoy!

Basic Info

Who's Teaching this term?

Her name's Caroline Kierstead, you can reach her at [email protected]

Her office is at MC 4009, and if you (for some reason) need to call her, her ext. is x36226

Where are things posted?

The main website: https://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs247/

Piazza: https://piazza.com/class/j1zdnej6n0o5yt

Office Hours?

Nothing set in stone yet, but tentatively you can meet after the lecture ends.

Mark Breakdown

• 15% - Assignments
  • 5% - Assignment 1
  • 5% - Assignment 2
  • 5% - Assignment 3
• 15% - Project
  • 7% - Deliverable 1
  • 8% - Deliverable 2
• 20% - Midterm
• 50% - Final Exam

NOTE: A passing mark must be achieved on the exam portion of the course (Midterm and Exam, weighted accordingly) to pass the course.

Course Outline

• ADT Design
• Modules and Interfaces
• Exceptions
• Interface Specification
• OO Design Principles
• Design Patterns
• UML Modelling
• Generic Programming (templates, STL)
• Testing and Debugging

Compiler to use

Make sure your projects run atop Ubuntu 16.04, and g++-5 -std=c++14 -Wall

Q: What is Software Engineering

A: SE is a collection of practices, principles, tools, techniques, etc... that aim to:

• make quality software
• improve developer productivity
• improve scalability of large systems
• improve evolvability

Like other engineering discipline, there is a focus on both safety and economy.

The Ultimate Goal: improve product quality and designer productivity

Attend class!

Data from CS 247 2011