Resources

Lecture slides

Lecture slides will be published progressively here during the semester.

• Week 1
  • Unit introduction
  • Revision of a Software Process and Measurement
  • Revision of Models of a Software Process
• Week 2
  • Concept and Use of a Software Meta-Process
    
  • Revision of Measurement Theory
• Week 3
  • Risk Management
  • Post Implementation Review
• Week 4
  • Process simulation
• Week 5
  • The Requirements Engineering Process
• Week 6
  • Inspection and the Test Process
• Week 7
  • Maturity models
• Week 8
  • Personal software processes
• Week 10
  • ISO/SPICE; inspections

Workshop material

Practical work for this unit will be done during workshops, and workshop sheets will be published progressively here during the semester.

• Week 4 workshop: regression analysis

  Sample spreadsheet

  For students who are familiar with using Python: you may also want to look through the following slides from Felix Steffenhagen (Uni. of Freiburg) on “NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib” (PDF). The slides are on the website for the University of Michigan’s Statistics 607 course. The lecture slides on interpolation and curve fitting from CITS2401 may also be useful (PDF) (PowerPoint).

  Any book on statistics should have a section on regression analysis, but one book specifically dedicated to it is: S. Chatterjee and A.S. Hadi, Regression Analysis by Example (5th edn, 2015). Hard copies and an online version of this are available from the UWA Library.

• Week 10 workshop -- ISO standards and software inspections

• Week 11 workshop

Asssignments, seminar and exam

See the Assessment page.

Reading

Textbook: There is no one book which covers the full scope of this course. Students will be expected to seek out appropriate texts and research papers. However, the Software Engineering texts by Pressman or Sommerville are particularly useful. Although current editions of these books are expensive (over $300 for hardcover texts), any recent edition (i.e., one of the last 2–3 editions) is acceptable, and these can be got second-hand for under $50 (not including shipping) from Amazon or Abebooks.

Other useful resources which will be referred to from time to time are detailed below.

Underlying theory of UML

• Royce, Walker, Software Project Management - A Unified Framework, Addison-Wesley, 1998. (Science Library access no. 005.12 1998 SOF)
• Fowler, Martin, UML Distilled, Addison-Wesley, 2004. (Book website)

Process Improvement

• Florac, W and Anita Carleton, Measuring the Software Process, Addison-Wesley, 1999. (Science Library access no. 005.14 1999 MEA, Google book)

On Maturity Models:

• Capability Maturity Model for Software, Version 1.1
• Unofficial CMMI FAQ
• James Bach, “The Immaturity of CMM” (originally published 1994): https://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/6208

On models of Project Management

• Wysocki, Robert, Effective Software Project Management, Wiley  2006. (Reid Library access no. 005.3068 2006 EFF, EBook via UWA Library (2008), Google book)

On Software Process Dynamics

• Madachy, Raymond J., Software Process Dynamics, Wiley, 2007. (Wiley Online Library, IEEExplore)

Additional suggestions for this reading list are welcome. Post your suggestions to help5502.