CSE 6431 Software Re-Engineering

Fall Term 2011-12

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

Location

All lectures will take place in the Software Engineering lab (CSEB 2056)

Evaluation

	Percent of final grade
Design Pattern Presentation	10%
Fact Extraction Assignment	10%
Design Pattern Assignment	30%
Software Clustering Assignemnt	30%
Research paper presentation	20%

Lecture schedule

September 7 - Administrivia
- Slides: One per page Six per page
September 12 - Static fact extraction
- Instructions
- TA documentation
- Javex manual (contains a list of all edge types with mnemonics)
September 14 - 21 - Fact manipulation
- Instructions
- Exercise answers:
September 26 - Program Analysis
- Slides: One per page Six per page
September 28 - Introduction to Design Patterns
- Slides: One per page Six per page
October 3 & 5 - Design pattern presentations
Reading Week
October 17 & 19 - Design pattern detection lab (Shouzheng)
October 24 & 26 - Design Pattern Detection
October 31 & November 2 - 7 - Software Clustering
- Slides: One per page Six per page
- Instructions
November 9 - 16 - Clustering evaluation
- Slides: One per page Six per page
- Instructions
- The course evaluation will take place at 11:30 on Monday, Nov 14.
November 21 - 28 - Program Transformation
- Slides: One per page Six per page
- Instructions
November 30 & December 5 - Research paper presentations