COSC 6431 Software Re-Engineering

Winter Term 2009-10

WWW-page: http://www.cse.yorku.ca/course/6431

General Information

Industrial software systems are usually large and complex, while knowledge of their structure is either lost or inadequately documented. This course presents techniques that aid the comprehension and design recovery of large software systems.

Instructor

Bil Tzerpos

Evaluation

	Percent of final grade
Class participation	10%
Assignment	20%
Research paper presentation	30%
Project report	40%

Lecture schedule

January 4 - Administrivia
- Slides: One per page Six per page
January 6 & 11 - Introduction to Software Re-Engineering
- Slides: One per page Six per page
- Papers to discuss on Monday: Chikofsky, Parnas.
January 13 & 18 - Program Analysis
- Slides: One per page Six per page
- Papers to discuss on Monday: Holt, Stroulia.
January 20 & 25 - Software clustering
- Slides: One per page Six per page
- Papers to discuss on Monday: Lung, Wu.
January 27 & February 1 - Evaluation of clustering techniques
- Slides: One per page Six per page
- Papers to discuss on Monday: CRAFT, Eisenbarth
February 22 - Intro to Design Patterns
- Slides: One per page Six per page
February 24 & March 1 - Design Pattern Detection
- Slides: One per page Six per page
- Papers to discuss on Monday: Seemann, PINOT
March 3 & 8 - Refactoring
- Slides: One per page Six per page
- Papers to discuss on Monday: Ducasse, Godfrey
March 10 & 15 - Program Transformation
- Slides: One per page Six per page
- Papers to discuss on Monday: TXL, Dahn.
March 17 & 22 - Mining Software Repositories
- Papers to discuss on Monday: Hassan, Murphy.
March 24 - 31 - Research paper presentations
- Slides: PPT PDF