The University of Western Australia
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
 
 

School of Computer Science and Software Engineering

CITS5502 Software Processes

Schedule

Lecture handouts and workshop sheets will be available from the Resources page. (For assignment specifications, see the Assessment page.) The order or delivery date of lectures on this page may change during the semester.

Lecture recordings will be available through LMS although personal attendance at lectures is recommended. Please note that recordings sometimes fail. All material for this unit (except the lecture recordings) will be available only from this web site. Some portions of workshops may be recorded, but the workshops are highly interactive, and personal attendance is expected.

Week Lectures Workshop Assessment
1
Jul 29
Software processes, measurement and models No workshop
2
Aug 5
Meta-processes; measurement theory Processes and notation
3
Aug 12
Process risk management; implementation review Process notation exercises
4
Aug 19
Process simulation Model fitting
5
Aug 26
Requirements analysis and deployment Assignment 1 discussion
6
Sep 2
Inspection, testing and diagnostics Non-standard model fitting Assignment 1 due
7
Sep 9
Measuring capability maturity Seminar discussion
8
Sep 16
The personal software process Assignment 2 discussion
9
Sep 23
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9
Sep 30
non-teaching week
10
Oct 7
ISO and European initiatives ISO and European initiatives Assignment 2 due
11
Oct 14
Agile processes Agile processes
12
Oct 21
Exam revision Open forum