Virginia Tech - Computer Science Department

Prof. Frakes

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Course Description: This course covers methods and tools for building high quality industrial software on time and at minimal cost. It covers each phase of the software lifecycle--concept formation, requirements, design, coding, testing, and maintenance. The Unix system and C/C++ languages will be used as the software engineering environment for the course.

Texts

[FFN] Frakes, Fox, Nejmeh, Software Engineering in the Unix/C Environment, (Online Text)
Table of Contents
Index
Templates for lifecycle documents

[Gus]Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Software Engineering by David Gustafson McGraw-Hill Trade; 1st edition (June 24, 2002)  ISBN: 0071377948

[OL] Programming With GNU Software by Andy Oram, Mike Loukides  O'Reilly & Associates;  (1996)  ISBN: 1565921127

Projects

Description will be given later

Grading 3 Projects @ 15 points each. Final 55 points, Total = 100

The final exam will be closed book and you will need to come to one of the testing sites to take it. The testing sites will be the NVGC, and at Blacksburg and Richmond if needed. If you are more than 100 miles from any of these sites, please send email to Tom Sheehan, director of the MIT program giving him your physical location, course number, and a proposed proctor for your exam. The proctor wil typically be a work supervisor, a previous instrictor, or in the case of the military a base education officer.

All coursework is governed by the Virginia Tech honors code

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