Software Process ICS 225 Spring 2002

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Software Process ICS 225Spring 2002

• Walt Scacchi, Ph.D.
• Institute for Software Research
• wscacchi_at_ics.uci.edu

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Overview

• Introductions
• Course audience and demographics
• Administrative matters
• Foundational concepts
• Course topics
• Questions
• Topic 1 Process Life Cycle

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Introductions

• Instructor Dr. Walt Scacchi
• Teaching assistant(s)
• none
• Administrative support
• none

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Course audience and demographics what are your
career interests?

• Executive (Corporate Officer, Vice President,
  Division Director, etc.)?
• IT Consultant?
• Entrepreneur?
• Academic Scholar?
• Other?

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Administrative matters

• Office, office hours and contact
• ICS2-242
• Tuesday 100-230pm, and by appointment
• Office 949-824-4130
• Email Wscacchi_at_uci.edu
• Web http//www.ics.uci.edu/wscacchi

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Administrative matters

• Projects and Assignments
• Team project, final presentation, deliverables
• In-class discussion
• Assigned articles and case studies
• Web-based case studies
• Web-based information gathering

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Administrative matters

• Attendance and Participation
• Both count!

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Administrative matters

• Grading policy
• Final project 70
• Assignments and discussion 20
• Attendance 10
• Project team formation
• Team size 3-5 people
• Start building your team today!

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Administrative matters

• Communicating course material
• Am I explaining course materials so that you
  understand? If not, you must let me know.
• Course preparation
• All course materials (e.g., lecture notes,
  readings, assignments) will be posted on the Web
• Discussion
• Assignments or team project work each week

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Administrative matters

• Access
• See my Office hours and TBD hours contact me!
• Progress (Grades)
• Scheduled assignments and team project work
• Emphasis of conceptual understanding
• 50 lecture and course work on concepts for
  systems analysis and design
• 50 work on putting these concepts into practice,
  via the team project.

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Administrative matters

• Rigor iterative presentation and exploration
• Formal vs. informal
• Three iteration cycles
• Overall value of course to you
• You will learn fundamental concepts of systems
  analysis and design
• You define your team project to best address your
  professional goals
• You should ask questions about topical issues

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Course matters -- Reading Materials

• Required To be posted at
• http//www.ics.uci.edu/wscacchi/Software-Process
  /

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Foundational concepts

• Software Life Cycle and Process Models
• Upstream Process Engineering
• Midstream Process Engineering
• Downstream Process Engineering
• Conventional Software Engineering vs. Open Source
  Software Development Processes

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Course topics

• Software Life Cycle and Process Models
• Meta-Models and Meta-Modeling
• Modeling
• Analysis
• Simulation
• Redesign

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Course topics

• Visualization
• Prototyping
• Administering and Scheduling
• Integration
• Environment Generation

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Course topics

• Instantiation and Enactment
• Monitoring and Measuring
• Enactment History Capture and Replay
• Articulation
• Evolution and Repository Management
• Open Source Software Development Processes

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Questions?

• What do you want to learn or take away from this
  course?
• What are your criteria of success?
• What do you want me to do to help you achieve
  your success?
• What about the team project?
• Others?