Software Engineering
Core Lecture · Summer 2009

Software Engineering Chair (Prof. Zeller)
Saarland University – Computer Science
Campus E1 3
66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
E-mail: zeller @ cs.uni-saarland.de
Phone: +49 681 302-70970

Table of Content

News
About the Course
Registration
Lectures and Slides
Exercises and Groups
Exams and Grades
Lecturers
Assistants
Reading List
FAQ
AspectJ

News

2009-10-13

The results of the after exams are now online. Please visit your personal details page.

2009-10-13

The after exam inspection will be on Monday 26th October 2009 in building E1.3, HS003

2009-08-07

The corrected points and grades after the exam inspection are now online. Please check.

2009-08-03

Exam inspection will be next week Thursday (06.08.2009) 14:00. Room: Building E 1.1, Room 407

2009-07-31

You can now register for the after-exam. Please visit your personal details page.

2009-07-30

The results of the first exams are now online. Please visit your personal details page.

2009-07-29

The course is over. Thanks for attending!

2009-07-15

We extended sample solution 8 the PERT chart by an explanation why some edges are not included in the chart but actually belong there. :-)

2009-07-07

Next week the Thursday lecture will contain a question and answer section for the exam.
Please prepare your questions beforehand.

2009-07-07

The schedule for the after-exam (Nachklausur) is fixed. Thursday 8th of October 14:00 - 17:00.

2009-06-22

Todays office hour is canceled. Please send an email to kim (at) cs.uni-saarland.de to clarify any open issues and questions
or come to office 302 in building E1.3 tomorrow (23.06.2009) between 13:00 and 15:00 for personal support.

2009-06-04 (for participants of exercise groups 6 and 7 only)

Due to next weeks holiday, we have to distribute participants of exercise group 6 and 7 to alternative slots.
For that reason, we created a doodle poll.
Please vote for a group that you will attend instead of your usual Thursday group until Monday 08.06.2009 16:00.
Please user your matriculation number as participant user name.
(We also sent out emails to students that are registered for those groups).

2009-06-03

Corrected and clarified version of assignment 6 is online: see here

2009-05-20

There is a small howto about the usage of AspectJ on the CIPs available: see here

2009-05-14

While Kim Herzig is away (till 03.06) Andrzej Wasylkowski (Room 327) will coordinate assignment sheets and tutorial groups.

2009-05-14

Assignment 4 is extended until end of next week. That means also there are no tutorial groups and quizzes next week.
More on that in next week's lecture on Tuesday.

2009-05-14

The schedule for the first exam is fixed now: see here

2009-04-29

The exam regulations are fixed now: All students can participate in both exams. The better grade counts. (Exceptions can be found here)

2009-04-28

The room for Group 4 has changed to SR016 in Building E1.3

2009-04-28

Due to the high number of participants, we had to make a number of changes:

We have changed the exam date to July 25th.
Quizzes now take place in the exercise groups, starting this week; this week's quiz is a dry run.
Quiz points no longer account for the final grade, but are still required for the exam.

For details, see Exams below.

2009-04-27

The office hours are scheduled on Monday from 15:00 till 17:00. You can find Kim Herzig in Room 302.
The office hours will start NEXT WEEK (04.05.2009). All questions regarding the first exercise sheet will be answered in the exercise groups.
The first quiz will be ungraded.

2009-04-25

We sent out the emails with the passwords for the personal info page (see below).

2009-04-25

You can see your exercise group and quiz points here: http://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/se/2009/info.

2009-04-24

The first assignment sheet is online. Download it from here.

2009-04-23

We offer two new exercise groups (Wednesday12-14 and Tuesday 14-16) parallel to already existing ones.

2009-04-21

The "Telecommunications II" Tuesday lecture has been moved to 12:00-13:30, such that it no longer conflicts with the Software Engineering lecture.

2009-04-16

The Monday exercise groups are shifted to Wednesday and have new time slots (12-14, 14-16).

2009-04-06

The exam and grading regulations have now been finalized. There will be one end-term exam. See at the end of this page.

2009-04-06

The scheduled lecture times (in the morning from 8:30 till 10:00) will stay unchanged, as all considered alternatives are in conflict with other courses.

2009-03-01

The registration is now open!

About the Course

Software engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software. In this core lecture (Stammvorlesung, 9 CP), we build on earlier exposure to software engineering (e.g. the software lab (Software Praktikum) in Saarland's Bachelor's program) and explore in-depth software engineering topics such as

Requirements Engineering
Software Specification
Software Design and Architecture
Advanced Programming Techniques
Software Quality Assurance
Software Maintenance and Evolution
Software Project Management

Registration

Course Registration

The registration for the software engineering course starts on 03.03.2009 (00:00:01) and ends on 24.04.2009 (23:59:59).

HISPOS

Please remember that you also have to register in the HISPOS system. Deadlines for that will be posted in the HISPOS portal and announced by email.

Lectures and Slides

Lectures will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30-10:00 in HS 002, E1.3, starting Tuesday, April 21, 2009.

Current Lectures

Introduction

21.04.2009: Overview · The Software Life Cycle

Design

23.04.2009: Object-Oriented Design · Handout
28.04.2009: Software Architecture
30.04.2009: Service-Oriented Architectures
05.05.2009: Service-Oriented Architectures (cont.)
07.05.2009: Web Engineering
12.05.2009: Aspect-Oriented Programming · Handout
14.05.2009: User Interface Design

Requirements

19.05.2009: Requirements Engineering 1

Lecture slides (3 slides per page / 6 slides per page)
Simplified Volere process
Sample work context diagram

26.05.2009: Requirements Engineering 2

28.05.2009: Requirements Engineering 3

Exercises and Groups

Exercise Sheets

Office Hours

The office hours are scheduled Monday's from 15:00 till 17:00. You can find Kim Herzig in Room 302 (Build. E13).
The office hours will start on the 04.05.2009.

Groups

Once the registrations for the course are over, a list with groups assigments will be made public. Exercises will be held on:

Group 1: Tuesday, 14:00 - 16:00, SR014, E1.3 (Salim Doost)
Group 8: Tuesday, 14:00 - 16:00, SR015, E1.3 (Jochen Krämer)
Group 2: Tuesday, 16:00 - 18:00, SR014, E1.3 (Luis de la Garza)
Group 3: Wednesday, 12:00 - 14:00, SR014, E1.3 (David Nemer)
Group 4: Wednesday, 12:00 - 14:00, SR016, E1.3 (Munara Tolubaeva)
Group 5: Wednesday, 14:00 - 16:00, SR014, E1.3 (Justin Parcks)
Group 6: Thursday, 14:00 - 16:00, SR014, E1.3 (Nadja Altabari)
Group 7: Thursday, 16:00 - 18:00, SR014, E1.3 (Yulya Patenko)

The quiz results will be shown here: http://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/se/2009/info

(To login you need your 'matrikelnumber' and your password. The password has been sent to you via email on: 25.04.2009 13:47.)

Exams and Grades

Regulations

There will be one written exam which counts 100% towards your final grade.

Note that you need to achieve at least 50% of all points (combined) in the quizzes to qualify for the written exam.

To pass the course, you need an overall average of 4.0 or better. An additional written exam (Nachklausur) will be offered in October.
All students can participate in the main exam as well as in the re-exam. The better grade of the two written exams counts.

Under important circumstances, the written exam can be replaced by an oral exam. Two oral exams are impossible.

Exam Schedule

Saturday, July 25th, 2009 (13:00 - 16:00): Info-Building: HS001, HS002, HS003; Math-Building: HS I, HS II, HS III
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 (14:00 - 17:00): Info-Building: HS001, HS002; Math-Building: HS I, HS II (registration required)

Lecturers

Assistants

The assistants take care of the exercises.

Kim Herzig (co-ordinator, kim (at) cs.uni-saarland.de)
Yulya Patenko (Group 7)
David Nemer (Group 3)
Munara Tolubaeva (Group 4)
Salim Doost (Group 1)
Jochen Krämer (hearing tutor) (Group 8)
Justin Parcks (hearing tutor) (Group 5)
Luis de la Garza (hearing tutor) (Group 2)
Nadja Altabari (hearing tutor) (Group 6)

Reading list

R. Pressman, Software Engineering - A Practitioner's Approach, 6th ed., 2005
C. Ghezzi, M. Jazayeri, and D. Mandriolo, Fundamentals of Software Engineering. Prentice Hall, second ed., 2002
A. Endres and D. Rombach, A Handbook of Software and Systems Engineering. The Fraunhofer IESE Series on Software Engineering, Pearson Education Ltd., 2003.
The Z Notation
S. Robertson and J. C. Robertson, Mastering the Requirements Process. Addison-Wesley Professional, second ed., 2006.
I. Jacobson, G. Booch, and J. Rumbaugh, The Unified Software Development Process. Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999.
K. Beck and C. Andres, Extreme Programming Explained. Addison-Wesley, 2004.

Frequently Asked Questions

Overview

I did not registered for the exercise courses so far. How can I register?
My timetable changed. Can I switch exercise groups?
I missed one of the quizzes. Can I rewrite the quiz?
The lecture and exam will be in English. Can I answer in German?
Do we have to hand in the exercise sheets?
How do I prepare for the quizzes?
I lost my password for the personal page. How do I get a new one?

Answers

I did not register for the exercise courses so far. How can I register?

Send an email to kim(at)cs.uni-saarland.de and state all exercise groups that you possibly can attend as well as your matriculation number.

My timetable changed. Can I switch exercise groups?

Yes, if both of your tutors will agree on it. The exercise groups should have approximate the same number of students. If a group has already 20 members or more, you cannot switch into this group.

I missed one of the quizzes. Can I rewrite the quiz?

No, except that you were sick and provide a appropriate doctor certificate. If you have the certificate and you want to rewrite the quiz, please send an email to se09@st.cs.uni-saarland.de.

The lecture and exam will be in English. Can I answer in German?

Ja, Sie können auch in Deutsch antworten.

Do we have to hand in the exercise sheets?

No. The exercise sheets are free will. They will not be graded and not be reviewed by the tutors. The exercises are discussed during the exercise groups. If you have any questions, your group is the right place to ask.

How do I prepare for the quizzes?

The exercise sheets will prepare you for the quizzes.

I lost my password for the personal page. How do I get a new one?

Send an email to kim@cs.uni-saarland.de including your request, name and matriculation number.

Using AspectJ on the CIPs

If you work on the CIPs please login to the compute servers appsrv or appsrv2 using ssh (e.g. ssh appsrv2 on the command line).

Before working with AspectJ on the command line, you first have to set some environment variables. You can copy and paste these lines to your terminal to setup your environment for the use of AspectJ:

If you don't know which shell you are using you can type

finger
$USER

or echo $0 on the command line.


# bash users

export ajrt="/installer/import/linux/compilers/aspectj/lib/aspectjrt.jar" 

export CLASSPATH="$ajrt:$CLASSPATH"

export PATH="/installer/import/linux/compilers/aspectj/bin:$PATH"



# tcsh users

setenv ajrt "/installer/import/linux/compilers/aspectj/lib/aspectjrt.jar" 

setenv CLASSPATH "${ajrt}:$CLASSPATH"    # alternatively 'setenv CLASSPATH "$ajrt"' if CLASSPATH is not set

setenv PATH "/installer/import/linux/compilers/aspectj/bin:$PATH"

Hello world example:


# copy the hello world example to an temp directory:

mkdir -p /tmp/$USER/se09 && cp -r /installer/import/linux/compilers/aspectj/doc/examples/ltw/ /tmp/$USER/se09/hello

# change to the directory

cd /tmp/$USER/se09/hello

# compile the HelloWorld program

ajc -outjar hello.jar HelloWorld.java

# compile the Tracing aspect

ajc -outjar tracing.jar -outxml Tracing.aj

# to run the example set CLASSPATH to include hello.jar

# again: bash users use export, tcsh users use setenv

export CLASSPATH="hello.jar:$CLASSPATH"

# run the example

aj HelloWorld

# run the example with tracing

export CLASSPATH="tracing.jar:$CLASSPATH"

aj HelloWorld

# run the example with tracing using ASPECTPATH

export ASPECTPATH=tracing.jar

aj HelloWorld

Software EngineeringCore Lecture · Summer 2009

Table of Content

News

About the Course

Registration

Course Registration

HISPOS

Lectures and Slides

Current Lectures

Introduction

Design

Requirements

Formal Methods

Management

Quality Assurance

Exercises and Groups

Exercise Sheets

Office Hours

Groups

Exams and Grades

Regulations

Exam Schedule

Lecturers

Assistants

Reading list

Frequently Asked Questions

Overview

Answers

I did not register for the exercise courses so far. How can I register?

My timetable changed. Can I switch exercise groups?

I missed one of the quizzes. Can I rewrite the quiz?

The lecture and exam will be in English. Can I answer in German?

Do we have to hand in the exercise sheets?

How do I prepare for the quizzes?

I lost my password for the personal page. How do I get a new one?

Using AspectJ on the CIPs

Hello world example:

Software Engineering
Core Lecture · Summer 2009