General
Course description
252-0273-01L Distributed Software Engineering Laboratory
Web page at the computer science department: 252-0273-01L
Student article about the laboratory in VIS Visionen.
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.
A Distributed Project
The course project will be in collaboration with other universities. Preliminary partners are:
- ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil
- University of Rio Cuarto, Argentina
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Grading
- The course grade is based entirely on the project.
Course books
- Michael Jackson: Requirements & Specifications,1995, Addison Wesley, ISBN: 0-201-87712-0
Further reading
About Software engineering:- Bertrand Meyer: Object-Oriented Software Construction, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 1997.
- Barry W. Boehm: Software Engineering Economics, Prentice Hall, 1981.
- Fred Brooks: No Silver Bullet - Essence and Accident in Software Engineering, in Computer (IEEE), vol. 20, no. 4, pages 10-19, April 1987.
- John B. Goodenough and Susan Gerhart: Towards a Theory of Test: Data Selection Criteria, in Current Trends in Programming Methodology, ed. Raymond T. Yeh, pages 44-79, Prentice Hall, 1977.
- Peter Naur: Programming with Action Clusters, in BIT, vol. 3, no. 9, pages 250-258, 1969.
- Shari Lawrence Pfleeger and Joanne M Atlee: Software Engineering, 3rd edition, Prentice Hall, 2005.
- SEI (Software Engineering Institute): CMMISM for Software Engineering, Version 1.1, Staged Representation (CMMI-SW, V1.1, Staged), 2005.
- Bertrand Meyer: On Formalism in Specifications, in Software (IEEE), pages 6-26, January 1985.
- Jeannette M. Wing: A Study of 12 Specifications of the Library Problem, in Software (IEEE), vol. 5, no. 4, pages 66-76, July 1988.
- Ralph Young: Recommended Requirements Gathering Practices, in CrossTalk, the Journal of Defense Software Engineering, April 2002.
- Southwell et al., cited in Michael G. Christel and Kyo C. Kang, Issues in Requirements Elicitation, Software Engineering Institute, CMU/SEI-92-TR-012 and ESC-TR-92-012, September 1992.
- Becky Winant: Requirement #1: Ask Honest Questions.
- Gerald Kotonya and Ian Sommerville: Requirements Engineering: Processes and Techniques, Wiley, 1998.
- IEEE: IEEE Recommended Practice for Software Requirements Specifiations, IEEE Std 830-1998 (revision of IEEE Std 830-1988).
- Michael Jackson: Software Requirements and Specifications, Addison-Wesley, 1996.
- Mike Mannion and Barry Keepence: SMART Requirements, in ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, vol. 20, no. 2, pages 42-47, April 1995.
- Esther Derby: Building a Requirements Foundation through Customer Interviews.
- Eric Dubois, J. Hagelstein and A. Rifaut: Formal Requirements Engineering with ERAE, in Philips Journal of Research, vol. 43, pages 393-414,1988.
- Ellen Gottesdiener: Requirements Workshops: Collaborating to Explore User Requirements, in Software Management 2002.
- Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides: Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN 0201634988
Schedule
| Day | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday (exercise) (starts 22.09.2015) | 09:00-10:00 (self-study) and 12:00-13:00 (exercise with TA) | RZ F 21 |
| Tuesday (lecture) | 10:00-12:00 | RZ F 21 |
Project
The project will be managed using Github.
All content is located at https://github.com/DOSE-ETH/dose2015. It is a private repository that you can only access once we have added you as a member.
Project Deadlines
The project deadlines are available in the Github wiki.Slides
In the 2010 iteration of the course we made recordings of all lectures.
| Date | Lecture | Title | Slides | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.09.2015 | 1 | Introduction | The Unspoken Revolution in Software Engineering / Design and code reviews in the age of the internet | |
| 22.09.2015 | 2 | Introduction to Distributed and Outsourced Software Engineering | no slides | |
| 29.09.2015 | 3 | Preparation for Outsourcing | ||
| 06.10.2015 | 4 | Requirements Engineering | ||
| 13.10.2015 | 5 | Requirements exercise | no slides | |
| 20.10.2015 | 6 | Preparation for Outsourcing | same as week 3 | |
| 27.10.2015 | 7 | Requirements Engineering II | ||
| 03.11.2015 | 8 | Preparation for Outsourcing II | same as week 3 | |
| 10.11.2015 | 9 | Introduction to CMMI |
Exercise Material
| Date | Title | Slides |
|---|---|---|
| 29.09.2015 | Introduction to Eiffel - Part 1 | |
| 06.10.2015 | Introduction to Eiffel - Part 2 | |
| 13.10.2015 | Introduction to Eiffel - Part 2 (continue) | |
| 20.10.2015 | Introduction to Eiffel - Part 3 | |
| 27.10.2015 | Discussion | |
| 03.11.2015 | Discussion | |
| 10.11.2015 | Introduction to Eiffel Vision |
Assistant
| Assistant | Office | Phone | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Estler | RZ J5 | 044 632 76 84 | German / English |
Assignments
| Title | Deadline |
|---|---|
| Assignment 1: Setup | 29.09.2015 |
| Assignment 2: Implementation and AI Library | 10.11.2015 |
| Assignment 3: Implementing a game | 29.11.2015 |
| Assignment 4: Bug finding competition | 15.12.2015 |