Software engineering for outsourced and offshore development
Peter Kolb, Bertrand Meyer (Winter semester 2005/2006)
| General info: | Course description | Course books |
| Lectures: | Schedule |
General info
News
| 01.02.2006 | Added Risk Management slides. |
| 25.01.2006 | Added further reading about patterns. |
| 23.01.2006 | The project deadlines were updated. |
| 23.01.2006 | We re-distribute the review for the groups of: Hans Jonas and Xu Baojun - Karsten Huetter - Jonas Bandi - Renato Iten and Guido Steiner. The others keep as before. Check the distribution here. |
| 20.01.2006 | The distribution for the review of the projects is here. |
| 18.01.2006 | New slides of MARWAS: Intercultural Aspects of IT offshoring to India. |
| 20.12.2005 | Updated the schedule, new slide of Cost Model for Outsourcing. |
| 14.12.2005 | New set of Project files added in the project section. |
| 14.12.2005 | New CMMI exercise and an example of Template Project Plan added. |
| 07.12.2005 | Activity for the next week: Read pages 108-136 of CMMM staged. |
| 06.12.2005 | Slides of Processes for Project Management and Engineering. |
| 02.12.2005 | Program updated. |
| 23.11.2005 | New set of slides of CMMI Model. |
| 23.11.2005 | An example of Model Checking in Pro B. |
| 21.11.2005 | Slides of Requirements and Formal Methods. |
| 16.11.2005 | Slides ofSoftware Requirements Engineering. |
| 16.11.2005 | Slides of Exercise 1: Valicert Case and Valicert Case 2nd Part. |
| 04.11.2005 | A paper on outsourcing and software engineering, to appear. |
| 03.11.2005 | Background material for the discussion of requirements: On Formalism in Specifications , Bertrand Meyer, IEEE Software, January 1985. |
| 27.10.2005 | First set of slides on line. |
Course
description
Software engineering for outsourced and offshore development
Web page at the computer science department: 251-0273-00
A remarkable phenomenon is affecting the software development scene: the massive transfer of developments to countries such as India and Russia offering highly qualified manpower at rock-bottom salaries. The outsourcing business is already in the hundreds of billions of dollars, causes employment fears among Western programmers, and has consequences on just about every aspect of software development (including education). Offshoring also serves as a magnifier of most of the issues of software engineering, including for example requirements analysis and quality control.
This course explores the offshoring phenomenon from a technical software engineering perspective, providing a set of guidelines for making outsourced projects succeed, through both management approaches (in particular the CMMI) and technical solutions in areas of requirements, specification, design, documentation and quality control. The presentation is based on experience of outsourcing at ABB and other companies.
The participants will take part in a case study exploring techniques for making an offshored project succeed (or recover from problems).
This course provides students with a clear view of the offshore software development phenomenon, enabling them to participate successfully in projects outsourced partially or totally, and also helping them define their own career strategies in the context of outsourcing's continued growth.
Grading
GRADING
- 100% Project
PROJECT GRADING
Draft requirements specification document delivered.
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Improved version of requirements specification document based on the finding of mutual review.
Course
books
- Michael Jackson: Requirements & Specifications,1995, Addison Wesley, ISBN: 0-201-87712-0
Further reading
About patterns:
- Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides: Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN 0201634988
- Karine Arnout's Ph.D. thesis: From Patterns to Components. Click here
Lectures
Schedule
Day |
Time |
Room |
| Wednesday | 08:00-10:00 | RZ F21 |
Project
PROJECT DELIVERY
- DEADLINE: 10/02/2006.
- First deadline: 11/01/2006 (first version of requirements document -A-).
- Second deadline: 07/02/2006 (certify another requirement document -B-).
- Final deadline: 17/02/2006 (revise A on the basis of B)
- Send an email to offshore@se.inf.ethz.ch
- The documents could be attached as files, zip or tar
PROJECT FILES
- Project Template: Software Requirements Spec .pdf, .doc, .rtf
- A Checklist for a Requirements Specification Review .pdf
- Slides of Writing Effective Requirements Specifications .pdf
Slides
Assistant
| Martin Nordio | martin.nordio AT inf.ethz.ch | Office: RZ F 9 |
Last update: 2006-01-23