LibGuides: CSC449: Module 1

Module 1 Required Resources

Textbook

Engineering Software Products by Ian Sommerville
ISBN: 9780135210642
Publication Date: 2019-05-09
This book focuses on software engineering techniques that are relevant for software product engineering. Topics covered include personas and scenarios, cloud-based software, microservices, security and privacy and DevOps.

Sommerville, I. (2020). Engineering software products: an introduction to modern software engineering. Pearson.

Chapter 1: Software Products
Chapter 2: Agile Software Engineering
Chapter 3: Features, Scenarios, and Stories

Access these chapter reading links within your classroom. Your course textbook can be accessed via the DART eBook link in the Getting Started Module.

Articles, Books, and Links

Agile Manifesto
Agile Manifesto. (2001). Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Agilemanifesto.org. https://agilemanifesto.org/
Please review the manifesto for Agile software development's original source and the principles behind it (https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html). This is the original source and is still available online.
Managing the development of large software systems
Royce, W. W. (1987, March). Managing the development of large software systems: concepts and techniques. In Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Software Engineering (pp. 328-338).
Please review the original paper that presents the waterfall software development model, by Dr. Winston Royce in 1970. This was the first introduction of the waterfall software development methodology that revolutionized the industry 50 years ago. By reading about these two great influencers, you can better understand significant ideas that shaped the software engineering field.
Head first software development
Pilone, D., & Miles, R. (2008). Head first software development. O’reilly.
The Head first series presents introductory instructional books that are visually intensive, reader-involving, and conversational style to immerse readers in a given topic. This book is an excellent guide that provides best practices for software development. Recommend reading Chapters: 1, 2, 3, and 4.
The advantages and disadvantages of agile scrum software development
de Sousa, S. (2009). The advantages and disadvantages of agile scrum software development from www.my-project-management-expert.com. Project.
An article by a project management expert presents a balanced picture of the advantages and disadvantages of Scrum.
Head First Agile
Stellman, A., & Greene, J. (2017). Head First Agile: a brain-friendly guide to Agile and the PMI-ACP certification. Beijing; Boston Farnham; Sebastopol; Tokyo O’reilly September.
This book is a complete guide to learning real-world agile ideas, practices, and principles.
Head First Git
Head First Git. (2022). O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Git as part of Head First Series by O’Reilly.
User stories with examples and a template
RehkopfF, M. (2019). User Stories | Atlassian. Atlassian. https://www.atlassian.com/agile/project-management/user-stories
A great tutorial by Atlassian (the software company that produces Jira) on how to write user stories.
GitHub documentation online on how to set up project boards.
GitHub documentation online on how to set up a new repository.
GitHub documentation online on how to link a repository to a board.

Videos

Agile At Work: Planning with Agile User Stories
Making agile predictable - Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories Video Tutorial | LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com. (n.d.). LinkedIn. Retrieved January 4, 2023, from https://www.linkedin.com/learning/agile-at-work-planning-with-agile-user-stories/making-agile-predictable-2
Online video through Linked Learning, which focuses on how to write user stories and prioritize them in the product backlog. It continues to show how to avoid the most common pitfalls with agile project planning.

Module 1 Optional Resources

Factors Affecting On-Time Delivery in Large-Scale Agile Software Development
Kula, E., Greuter, E., Van Deursen, A., & Gousios, G. (2021). Factors affecting on-time delivery in large-scale agile software development. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 48(9), 3573-3592.
Late delivery of software projects and cost overruns have been common problems in the software industry for decades. Both problems are manifestations of deficiencies in effort estimation during project planning. With software projects being complex socio-technical systems, a large pool of factors can affect effort estimation and on-time delivery.
Git Tutorial
As a developer, you want to get familiarized with Git functions. Here you will perform various activities to get familiar with Git operations.
Papers with Code
Review several research papers in computer science submitted to Papers with Code. Note that the code repository is typically done using GitHub. This is a way to provide reproducibility for the research conducted, boosting the credibility of the research.