CS 5500: Managing Software Development

The below table is the guide to the entire semester listing the topics and reading material. The syllabus is tentative; changes might be made to the syllabus according to the progress made by the class.

Students are responsible for the readings. Assignments and exams will cover the reading material.

Lecture	Date	Topics	Required Readings	Extra Material
1,2,3	5/11, 5/13, 5/15	Requirements Abstraction Barriers Specification Code	Abstraction Barriers^†	D.L. Parnas, On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules. The computer revolution has not happened yet Sketchpad video mentioned in Alan Kay's talk Programming with abstract data types Object-Oriented Programming Versus Abstract Data Types
4,5	5/18, 5/20	Information Hiding Unit Testing Interchangeable Parts Semester Project Kickoff Teamwork Code Reviews Object-Oriented Programming Polymorphism	Information Hiding^† Teamwork^† Object-Oriented Programming^†	A Behavioral Notion of Subtyping Applying Design by Contract Behavioral Contracts and Behavioral Subtyping
6	5/27	HTTP Web Services REST	Java Tutotrial: Deploying Self-Contained Applications Java EE Tutorial: Web Services	HTTP 1.1 HTTP 2.0 Jersey User Manual Tomcat Documentation
7,8	6/1, 6/3	Design Patterns Reuse Refactor	None.	Design Patterns in Java Design Principles and Design Patterns MVC pattern A Cookbook for Using View-Controller User the Model- Interface Paradigm in Smalltalk-80 A Survey of Software Refactoring
9,10	6/8, 6/10	Mocking Logging Linux Containers - Docker	None.	Mockito Docker SLF4J Logback Docker User Guide Docker Hub
11	6/17	Reflection	Reflection

^† Material created by Prof. Will Clinger; used by permission.