Date	Topic and Notes	Assignments	Reading For This Class
W 01/20/21	What is Software Engineering? [overview]	Some homeworks are posted. Start early! HW0 Specification. HW0 is optional, but students have reported in previous semesters that they have to create a Virtual Machine anyway for HW1 through HW5. HW0 walks you through it. HW1 Specification. HW6 Specification is worth reading early.	(none; first day of class)
M 01/25/21	Process, Risk and Scheduling [overview]		Wikipedia's Software Development Process Buse and Zimmermann's Information Needs for Software Development Analytics (if you are low on time, read only Sections I-V) [Microsoft] HW1 Specification Optional: "How well do real companies plan and estimate effort?" Find out in: Anda et al.'s Variability and Reproducibility in Software Engineering: A Study of Four Companies that Developed the Same System [Simula]
W 01/27/21	Measurement [overview]	HW0 due	Begel and Zimmermann's Analyze This! 145 Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering [Microsoft] Optional: "How does measurement bias relate to software?" Find out in: Mytkowicz et al.'s Producing Wrong Data Without Doing Anything Obviously Wrong!" [IBM] Optional: Don't want to read the Mytkowicz paper? Watch the video instead!
M 02/01/21	Quality Assurance and Testing [qa]	HW1a due	Sections 2.0 to 2.5 of Henderson's Software Engineering at Google [Google] Wikipedia's Quality Assurance Wikipedia's Software Testing Optional: "How does Google test each change to all of its software?" Find out in: Memon et al.'s Taming Google-Scale Continuous Testing [Google]
W 02/03/21	Test Suite Quality Metrics [qa]		Wikipedia's Code Coverage Wikipedia's Mutation Testing Optional: "How did mutation testing improve code review feedback by over 60% for over 10,000 code authors at Google?" Find out in: Petrovic and Ivankovic's State of Mutation Testing at Google [Google] Optional: "Do coverage metrics really help with critical projects?" Find out in: Dupuy and Leveson's An Empirical Evaluation of the MC/DC Coverage Criterion on the HETE-2 Satellite Software [Alcatel]
M 02/08/21	Test Inputs, Oracles and Generation [qa]	HW1b,c,d due	Wikipedia's Test Data Generation Read up to, but not including, "Program Specific Checkers" in Zeller's Fuzzing: Breaking Things with Random Inputs Tillmann and de Halleux's Pex — White Box Test Generation for .NET [Microsoft] Optional: "What's the state of the art in test oracles?" Find out in: Barr et al.'s The Oracle Problem in Software Testing: A Survey Optional: "Can fuzz testing find security bugs?" Find out in: Godefroid et al.'s Automated Whitebox Fuzz Testing [Microsoft]
W 02/10/21	Code Inspection and Review [qa]		Wikipedia's Code Review Bacchelli and Bird's Expectations, outcomes, and challenges of modern code review [Microsoft] HW2 Specification Optional: "How does gender relate to GitHub pull requests?" Find out in: Terrell et al.'s Gender differences and bias in open source: pull request acceptance of women versus men Optional: "Where do invariants come from?" Find out in: Ernst et al.'s The Daikon system for dynamic detection of likely invariants
M 02/15/21	Dynamic Analysis Tools [qa]		Wikipedia's Dynamic Program Analysis Musuvathi et al.'s Finding and Reproducing Heisenbugs in Concurrent Programs [Microsoft] Optional: "How can we detect locking bugs?" Find out in: Savage et al.'s Eraser: A Dynamic Data Race Detector for Multithreaded Programs [Digital]
W 02/17/21	Pair Programming and Skill Interviews [coding]		Wikipedia's Pair Programming Cockburn and Williams' The Costs and Benefits of Pair Programming Dean Jackson's The Google Technical Interview [Google] Section 4.1 of Henderson's Software Engineering at Google [Google] Optional: "What did a survey of over 46,000 comments find out about modern technical interviews?" Find out in: Behroozi et al.'s Hiring is Broken: What Do Developers SayAbout Technical Interviews? [Microsoft] Optional: "What can go wrong in pair programming?" Find out in: Lewis and Shah's How Equity and Inequity Can Emerge in Pair Programming
02/21/21	(None; this is a sunday)	HW2 due
M 02/22/21	Bonus lecture (optional attendance) There is no discussion this week.
W 02/24/21	No class (wellbeing day)	(no discussion this week)
M 03/01/21	Static & Dataflow Analysis (1/2) [qa]		Wikipedia's Static Program Analysis Ayewah et al.'s Experiences Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs [Google] HW3 Specification Optional: "How does Microsoft find bugs in critical device drivers?" Find out in: Ball et al.'s A Decade of Software Model Checking with SLAM [Microsoft] Optional: "What are deployment challenges for static analysis?" Find out in: Bessey et al.'s A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World [Coverity]
W 03/03/21	Static & Dataflow Analysis (2/2) [qa]		Wikipedia's Basic Block Wikipedia's Data-flow Analysis
03/07/21	(None; this is a Sunday)	HW3 due
M 03/08/21	Defect Reporting and Triage [bugs]		Wikipedia's Bug tracking system Bettenburg et al.'s What Makes a Good Bug Report? [Apache, Eclipse, Mozilla] Optional: "Are testers more neurotic than developers?" Find out in Smith et al.'s Beliefs, Practices, and Personalities of Software Engineers: A Survey in a Large Software Company [Microsoft]
W 03/10/21	Exam 1. You pick a 2 hour block during which to take the Exam.
M 03/15/21	Guest Lecture, Ms. Kristi Ramachandran Section Supervisor, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Note: This lecture will only take place during 3:00-4:30PM. The 4:30 lecture will not take place. Instead, students in the 4:30PM section are expected to watch the recording as soon as possible.	Lecture Slides: JHU APL
W 03/17/21	Fault Localization and Profiling [bugs]		Wikipedia's Profiling Parnin and Orso's Are Automated Debugging Techniques Actually Helping Programmers? Graham et al.'s gprof: a Call Graph Execution Profiler HW4 Specification Optional: "How can we collect per-path information?" Find out in: Ball and Larus's Efficient Path Profiling [Microsoft] Optional: "What other fault localization techniques exist?" Find out in: Wong and Debroy's A Survey of Software Fault Localization
03/21/21	(None; this is a Sunday)	HW4 due
M 03/22/21	TBA. Tuesday 3/23 is a wellbeing day. Lecture TBA
W 03/24/21	Debugging as Hypothesis Testing [bugs]		Sections 2.7 to 2.10 of Henderson's Software Engineering at Google [Google] Andreas Zeller's Automated Debugging: Are We Close? Optional: For more information on this project, visit: Zeller's Delta Debugging: from automated testing to automated debugging Optional: For an entire on-line course on this topic, visit: Udacity's Software Debugging: Automating the Boring Tasks
M 03/29/21	Requirements and Specifications [design]		Wikipedia's Requirements Elicitation Spolsky's How To Be A Program Manager [Stack Overflow] Zowghi and Coulin's Requirements Elicitation: A Survey of Techniques, Approaches and Tools HW5 Specification
W 03/31/21	Elicitation, Validation and Risk [design]	HW5 due	Abstract, Section 1 and Section 2 of Bjarnason et al.'s Challenges and practices in aligning requirements with verification and validation: a case study of six companies (first 5.5 pages only) Sinofsky's PM at Microsoft (cached copy) (original) [Microsoft] Wikipedia's Fault Tree Analysis
M 04/05/21	Designing for Maintainability [design]		Up to and including Section II-B of Liu et al.'s Automatic Generation of Pull Request Descriptions (the rest is optional) Malkwai's The art of software systems development: Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Performance (RAMP) Spolsky's Things You Should Never Do, Part 1 [Stack Overflow]
W 04/07/21	Patterns and Anti-Patterns [design] This lecture may be changed or removed. TBA	HW6a due	Wikipedia's Software Design Pattern HW6 Specification Optional: "How do design patterns work in industry?" Find out in: Beck et al.'s Industrial Experience with Design Patterns [AT&T, Motorola, Siemens, IBM]
M 04/12/21	Code Inspection and the Brain [coding, qa]		Floyd et al.'s Decoding the representation of code in the brain: An fMRI study of code review and expertise Krueger et al.'s Neurological divide: an fMRI study of prose and code writing.
W 04/14/21	Productivity [coding] (this lecture includes a participation component; you will need a coding laptop/environment)		See special reading instructions
M 04/19/21	Automatic Program Repair [overview]		Marginean et al.'s SapFix: Automated End-to-End Repair at Scale [Facebook] Monperrus et al.'s Repairnator patches programs automatically Optional: "Can smaller companies use automated repair?" Find out in: Haraldsson et al.'s Fixing Bugs in Your Sleep: How Genetic Improvement Became an Overnight Success [Janus] Optional: "How does mutation relate to automated repair?" Find out in: Le Goues et al.'s A Systematic Study of Automated Program Repair: Fixing 55 out of 105 Bugs for $8 Each
W 04/21/21	Career development and Failure You will benefit more from this lecture if you come prepared with questions. The slides will not be released; the recording will be available for a short time after the lecture.
M 04/26/21	Final Exam. You pick a 2 hour block during which to complete the Exam. It must be complete by 04/26/21 at 11:59PM Eastern time.	HW6b due — Note that there are absolutely no extensions on HW6b. It is already extended as long as possible. The late policy does not apply. Grades are due too soon after 4/26 to allow for any extensions. Please plan accordingly.