CSSE 575 Summer 2015-16

CSSE 575 Schedule

Summer 2015-6

Week

Session

Topics

Slides

Preparation

Project Work Due

1

Tues, June 7 - Google Hangout at 5:30 PM

Course intro

Intro to software maintenance & evolution

Details of project work in the course

See links to project work, below

Start Part 1 - Better software at the coding level!

Start Fowler book

Software Change

Fowler, Ch 1 - 3 (but I'm bringing the books to class!)

Bad smells - 1 & 2.

Time for initial discussion & practice on project work, meetings with Steve

Mon, Jun 13, 7 AM - Milestone 1, Journal

2

Tues, June 14

Refactoring principles

Fowler, Ch (2,) 6, 7, 8

Composing methods

Moving features between objects

Organizing data

Time for initial discussion & practice on project work, meetings with Steve

What if people did maintenance for free? Watch "Zen and the art of software maintenance" before class

Simplifying conditional expressions

(we did this one a week early)

Try for Mon, Jun 20, 7 AM - Milestone 2, Journal

3

Thurs, June 30 (a replacement date)

Making method calls simpler

Fowler, Ch 9, 10, 11, 12

Dealing with generalization

We'll look at what Visual Studio does, from their website.

Big refactorings

Big refactorings

Read the example, "Little steps and big smells" for discussion in class. And there was a more promising sounding article, but it disappeared - sorry!

Instead read "How to do large scale refactoring," including the link to Martin Fowler's cute "Strangle the classes."

Time for initial discussion & practice on project work, meetings with Steve

And read about "lambdas as refactoring!"

If we have time left today, we'll discuss the first topic for Week 9 - software evolution - see first Weeek 9 reading, below.

Mon, Jun 27, 7 AM - Milestone 3, Journal

4

Tues, July 5 (moves Week 5 meeting forward)

Start Part 2 - Better software by higher-level tactics!

Early versions of these slides are now out there, so you can preview our discussions:

Please at least scan these articles below for key ideas !

Stepping back to view swre maint and evolution

Swre maint issues

Process case history

The swre maint process

Swre maint process

Maintainability article

Role of software documentation

Documentation article

Program understanding

Program Understanding

Automated smell detection

Intro to Exam 1

Get take home Exam 1.

Time for initial discussion & practice on project work, meetings with Steve

Mon, 7 AM - Milestone 4, Journal

5

Thurs, July 7 (alternative)

Reengineering and Reverse engineering

Here are early versions of the slides:

Reeng & Rev eng

Please at least scan these articles below for key ideas :

Reverse Engineering survey paper

I'll also talk about a couple of reverse engineering studies.

If you'd like to look at them (optional), the case studies are here and here.

Reverse engineering tools

Reverse Engineering tool paper

Impact analysis

Impact analysis

Review of first exam

You can discuss your answers and thoughts

Time for initial discussion & practice on project work, meetings with Steve

Mon, 7 AM - Milestone 5, Journal

6

Fri, July 15 - (Alternate time due to Steve's travel)

Seam model (from Michael Feathers' book)

Read Feathers Ch 4, which is about his Seam model.

11:55 PM - Exam 1- turn in on Moodle !!!

Changing software 1 - common problems.

Problems Changing Swre -1

Read Ch 6 and skim the others so you get what they are about. We'll hit highlights of key chapters in class.

Changing software 2 - heuristic solutions.

Problems Changing Swre - 2

Then pick a few topics from chapters 7 - 23, which look relevant to your project, and study these thoroughly. The weekly assignment will include trying the things they recommend.

Breaking dependencies

Breaking Dependencies

In his Ch 25, Feathers deals with techniques for this. Pick three and focus on those (for class discussion and for the weekly assignment).

Time for initial discussion & practice on project work, meetings with Steve

Mon, 7 AM - Milestone 6, Journal

7

Tues, July 26 ( I'll be connecting from CA, on vacation)

Start Part 3 - Theory of Maintenance

We'll start by discussing what each person did with material from Feathers!

Model-based design for Maint

Review the CMM model for maint

Evolution of versions and config mgmt

Versions & config

Fun article - a practitioner's tips to config mgmt during maintenance

Reuse-based software maint & evolution

A cool article on preventive maintenance.

The material used in the slides, from Jarzabek, can be found here.

Time for initial discussion & practice on project work, meetings with Steve

Mon, 7 AM - Milestone 7, Journal

8

Fri, July 29 (pushed back because prior week was put in its place)

Evolvable products

Product lines and Evolvability intro

Read about the product line approach, and a paper on evolvability.

Analysis of software repositories

Read this survey article on mining swre repositories.

Predicting bugs and costs

Predicting Bugs

A good bug prediction paper that takes on one aspect!

Time for initial practice on project work, meetings with Steve

Mon, 7 AM - Milestone 8, Journal

Skipping Tues, Aug 2 (I'm at SEI in Pittsburgh)

9

Tues, Aug 9

Theory of software evolution - discussed June 20

Evolution - with visualization

Paper on software evolution & Swre visualization video

Read paper on Swre Evolution

A model for evolutionary growth - discussed June 20

Evolutionary Growth

Read paper on evolution theory

Statistical modeling

Statistical modeling

Read paper on measuring complexity

Special - Steve's SEI presentation about architecture and maintenance

Mon, Aug 15, 7 AM - Milestone 9, Journal

Get Exam 2. See also Practice Exam and take home Exam - 2 from earlier classes.

10

Thurs, Aug 18 (Moved to accommodate Matt)

Measurable maintainability

Measurable maintainability

Can we measure this? and Measuring Open Source Products' Maintainability

Maintenance management

Maintenance Management

An Outsourced View of Maint Mgmt

Final discussions

Summary

Course evaluations.

Exam - 2 due, 11:55 PM, on Moodle !!!

Final project meetings with Steve