Software Requirements and Specification (SE463)
Fall 2011 Schedule
No textbook. Notes are provided at this Web site.
References:
Wide - Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) Command & Data Handling Flight Software Requirements Specification Version Draft (1996), an example of a good SRS document
The list below represents the sequence of lectures as I see they will be given. As time goes on, I may change the order. Also as time goes on, we will see how they divide themselves up into dates.
If a topic has hot links, then the slides for the topic are available for downloading. If there are no hot links on a topic, the slides are not ready yet, and will be later, I hope, at least one day before the lecture.
The title itself is a hot link to a copy of its slides in Acrobat form (.pdf). These slides may not be exactly what I am showing on the screen during the lecture. My lecture may have material that I do not have the legal right to distribute multiple copies of. It may have also an exercise that I want to do alive in class with your help. I do not want you to be able to see such material until we have finished.
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| Date | Topic and Readings OR Deliverable Due |
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| 13 September | Tuesday Lecture |
| Administration and Overview | |
| Course Preview (this Web page) | |
| Brief Introduction to Requirements Engineering | |
| Requirements Engineering Reference Model | |
| 15 September | Thursday Lecture | Requirements Engineering Reference Model |
| 16 September | Friday Tutorial |
| Tutorial 1 INCLUDING Brainstorming | |
| 20 September | Tuesday Lecture | Requirements Engineering Reference Model |
| 22 September | Thursday Lecture |
| Brief Bi-Directional Text Reading Lesson | |
| Connecting and Nonconnecting Forms of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu Letters | |
| Arabic, Persian, and Urdu Alphabet Table | |
| Star Trek, the Next Generation in English, Hebrew, and Arabic: Space, the final frontier ... | |
| 23 September | Friday Tutorial
Deliverable 1: Group Formation Message to the course e-mail address |
| Note Different Room | First Brainstorming Session (MC3005): You must come to one of three; if you have volunteered for the experiment, please come to the second or third session, preferably the second. |
| 27 September | Tuesday Lecture |
| Classes & Concepts w/ Sensus | |
| 29 September | Thursday Lecture (NO LECTURE TODAY! Tutorial Instead) |
| Note Different Room | Second Brainstorming Session (MC3003): You must come to one of three; if you have volunteered for the experiment, please come to the second or third session, preferably the second. |
| 30 September | Friday Tutorial |
| Note Different Room | Third Brainstorming Session (MC3005): You must come to one of three; if you have volunteered for the experiment, please come to the second or third session, preferably the second. |
| 4 October | Tuesday Lecture |
| Classes & Concepts w/ Sensus | |
| Scenarios and Use Cases | |
| 6 October | Thursday Lecture |
| Scenarios and Use Cases | |
| 7 October | Friday Tutorial |
| Scenarios and Use Cases | |
| A Special Thanksgiving-Relevant Treat | |
| 11 October | Tuesday Lecture |
| Ambiguity in Requirements Specifications | |
| 13 October | Thursday Lecture |
| Ambiguity in Requirements Specifications | |
| Ambiguity in Requirements Specifications, Reduced to Actual Coverage | |
| The Dangerous All In Requirements Specifications | |
| 14 October | Friday Tutorial
Deliverable 2: Domain Model as UML Class Diagram with Superimposed World Diagram |
| Some Hidden Problems in Bi-Directional Wordprocessing | |
| 18 October | Tuesday Lecture |
| State Machine Diagrams | |
| 20 October | Thursday Lecture |
| Extended Tutorial Building State Machine Diagram for Assigning Positions (or Shapes) to Arabic, Persian, or Urdu Characters as They Are Input | |
| State Machine Diagrams | |
| 21 October | Friday Tutorial
Deliverable 3: Use Case Model (No scenarios) |
| No Tutorial Today! | |
| 25 October | Tuesday Lecture |
| Feedback on Deliverable 2 | |
| 27 October | Thursday Lecture |
| User's Manuals | |
| User's Manual Advice | |
| Example SRS and Users Manual | |
| 28 October | Friday Tutorial |
| User's Manual Advice | |
| 1 November | Tuesday Lecture |
| User's Manual Advice | |
| User Interface Specifications | |
| 3 November | Thursday Lecture |
| Unicode Bi-Directional Algorithm | |
| 4 November | Friday Tutorial |
| Discussion about use cases and behavior of bidirectional
word processors
The results of that discussion written up nicely are here. |
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| 8 November | Tuesday Lecture |
| Unicode Bi-Directional Algorithm | |
| SRSs | |
| 10 November | Thursday Lecture |
| SRSs | |
| Nonfunctional Requirements | |
| 11 November | Friday Tutorial |
| Cost Estimation | |
| 15 November | Tuesday Lecture |
| Cost Estimation | |
| Requirements Determination is Unstoppable | |
| 17 November | Thursday Lecture (NO LECTURE TODAY! Project Group Meeting Instead) |
| 18 November | Friday Tutorial (NO TUTORIAL TODAY! Project Group Meeting Instead) |
| 21 November | Monday Deliverable Due Date
Deliverable 4: First Draft UM |
| 22 November | Tuesday Lecture |
| Inspections | |
| 24 November | Thursday Lecture |
| What Vs How | |
| Temporal Logic | |
| 25 November | Friday Tutorial |
| Temporal Logic | |
| 29 November | Tuesday Lecture |
| Deliverable 4 Comments | |
| Table Showing Difference Between Ligaturing and Joining | |
| Temporal Logic | |
| 1 December | Thursday Lecture |
| Temporal Logic | |
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The Requirements Iceberg
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| The Requirements Iceberg Bibliography | |
| 2 December | Friday Tutorial |
| The Requirements Iceberg | |
| 12 December | Monday Deliverable Due Date
Deliverable 5: Final Draft UM |
| 17 December | Saturday Final Exam 12:30-3:00 pm MC 2035 and MC 2038 |
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Sample Final Exams
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