Date	Topic and Notes	Assignments	Reading For This Class
Jan 10 Wed	What is Software Engineering? [overview] (no attendance check)	Some homeworks are posted. Start early!	Read the HW6 Specification so you can think about it early!
Jan 15 Mon	— (No Class: MLK)	—	—
Jan 17 Wed	Process, Risk and Scheduling [overview] (no attendance check)	Quiz 0 Due (future reading quizzes may not be posted on this page) HW 0 (Dev Setup) Due	S. Keshav's How to Read a Paper (many students may not be familiar with how to efficiently and effectively read technical papers, and outlines one skill for how to do so) Wikipedia's Software Development Process (Introduction and Section 3, Methodologies) Buse and Zimmermann's Information Needs for Software Development Analytics (if you are low on time, read only Sections I-V) [Microsoft] Note: some students report that Safari may display paper PDFs incorrectly. 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]
Jan 22 Mon	Measurement [overview] (no attendance check)		Begel and Zimmermann's Analyze This! 145 Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering [Microsoft] HW1 Specification Optional: "How does measurement bias relate to software?" Find out in: Mytkowicz et al.'s Producing Wrong Data Without Doing Anything Obviously Wrong!" [IBM] Alternative: Don't want to read the Mytkowicz paper? Watch the video instead!
Jan 24 Wed	Quality Assurance and Testing [qa]	HW 1a (Test Coverage) Due	Sections 2.0 to 2.5 of Henderson's Software Engineering at Google [Google] Wikipedia's Quality Assurance (Introduction, Approaches and In Practice sections) Wikipedia's Software Testing (Introduction, Overview, Testing Approach, Testing Levels, Testing Types, Testing Processes, and Automated 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]
Jan 29 Mon	Test Suite Quality Metrics [qa]		Wikipedia's Code Coverage Wikipedia's Mutation Testing (Introduction, Overview, Goals, Mutation Testing Overview, Mutation Operators) 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]
Jan 31 Wed	Test Inputs, Oracles and Generation [qa]	HW 1b, 1c and 1d (Test Coverage) Due	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 (this project became IntelliTest in Visual Studio) [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]
Feb 5 Mon	Dynamic Analysis Tools [qa]		Wikipedia's Dynamic Program Analysis Musuvathi et al.'s Finding and Reproducing Heisenbugs in Concurrent Programs (Abstract, Sections 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7) [Microsoft] HW2 Specification Optional: "How can we detect locking bugs?" Find out in: Savage et al.'s Eraser: A Dynamic Data Race Detector for Multithreaded Programs [Digital]
Feb 7 Wed	Static & Dataflow Analysis (1/2) [qa]		Wikipedia's Static Program Analysis Ayewah et al.'s Experiences Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs [Google] 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]
Feb 12 Mon	Static & Dataflow Analysis (2/2) [qa]		Schwartz-Narbonne's How to integrate formal proofs into software development [Amazon] Wikipedia's Data-flow Analysis (Introduction, Basic Principles, Iterative Algorithm and Examples) Optional: Wikipedia's Basic Block (Introduction and Definition)
Feb 14 Wed	Code Inspection and Review [qa]	HW 2 (Test Automation) Due reminder: assignments are due at this time even if there are temporary power or networking issues	Wikipedia's Code Review Bacchelli and Bird's Expectations, outcomes, and challenges of modern code review [Microsoft] HW3 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: "How can we automatically resolve merge conflicts?" Find out in MergeResolver — Automatic Merge Conflict Resolution [GrammaTech] Optional: "Where do invariants come from?" Find out in: Ernst et al.'s The Daikon system for dynamic detection of likely invariants
Feb 19 Mon	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 Say About 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 Optional: "How do Agile and Waterfall compare?" Find out in: Hosking's Agile Projects Have Become Waterfall Projects With Sprints
Feb 21 Wed	Defect Reporting and Triage [bugs]	Note that HW3 is due the Mon after Spring Break	Wikipedia's Bug tracking system Bettenburg et al.'s What Makes a Good Bug Report? (Abstract, Sections 1, 3, and 9) [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]
Feb 23 Fri	—	Exam #1 Due (you pick a 2-hour window within this 24-hour day)
Feb 26 Mon	— (No Class: Spring Break)	—	—
Feb 28 Wed	— (No Class: Spring Break)	—	—
Mar 4 Mon	Fault Localization and Profiling [bugs]	HW 3 (Mutation Testing) Due (Due date updated to 3/5/2024)	Wikipedia's Profiling Parnin and Orso's Are Automated Debugging Techniques Actually Helping Programmers? (if low on time, can skip Sections 2 and 4) Graham et al.'s gprof: a Call Graph Execution Profiler (Abstract, Sections 1, 2, 3 and 5) 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
Mar 6 Wed	Debugging as Hypothesis Testing [bugs]	(looking into HW 6a projects early on improves outcomes)	Sections 2.7 to 2.10 of Henderson's Software Engineering at Google [Google] Andreas Zeller's Automated Debugging: Are We Close? Alternative: George Necula's lecture on Delta Debugging at Berkeley may provide a nice alternative to the presentation in this class. 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
Mar 11 Mon	Requirements and Specifications [design]		Wikipedia's Requirements Elicitation Peter K. Shultz's Being a PM [Microsoft] Spolsky's How To Be A Program Manager [Stack Overflow] Zowghi and Coulin's Requirements Elicitation: A Survey of Techniques, Approaches and Tools (read up through 2.3, and then skip to and read 2.6) HW5 Specification
Mar 13 Wed	Elicitation, Validation and Risk [design]	HW 4 (Defect Detection) 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] Optional: "How do safety-critical industries formalize and mitigate such risks?" Find out in: Wikipedia's Fault Tree Analysis
Mar 18 Mon	Designing for Maintainability [design]	(we recommend overlapping HW 6a with HW 5)	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) (read up through the 4 "Cases" and then skip to and read the Discussion) Spolsky's Things You Should Never Do, Part 1 [Stack Overflow]
Mar 20 Wed	Patterns and Anti-Patterns [design]		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]
Mar 25 Mon	Productivity (bring a coding laptop!) [coding]	HW 5 (Debugging Automation) Due	See special reading instructions
Mar 27 Wed	Multi-Language Projects [coding]		Wikipedia's Java Native Interface Python's Extending Python with C or C++ (read up through 1.7)
Apr 1 Mon	Intro to Model Checking [overview]
Apr 3 Wed	Off-Topic: Software Engineering Practices in Scientific Computing (slides) [other]	HW 6a (Contribution) Due
Apr 8 Mon	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 Optional: "How can we repair 50% of standard compilation errors with neural machine translation?" Find out in: Mesbah et al.'s DeepDelta: Learning to Repair Compilation Errors [Google]
Apr 10 Wed	Program Synthesis (Part 1) [overview]		Interview with Sumit Gulwani [Microsoft] Sections 1 and 2 of Alur et al.'s Syntax-Guided Synthesis Chapter 1 of Gulwani's Program Synthesis [Microsoft]
Apr 15 Mon	Program Synthesis (Part 2) [overview]		Optional: Dong et al.'s WebRobot: Web Robotic Process Automation using Interactive Programming-by-Demonstration (all Sections except Section 8) Optional: Pu et al.'s SemanticOn: Specifying Content-Based Semantic Conditions for Web Automation Programs (Sections 1, 4 and 5) Optional: SemanticOn Demonstration Video [Microsoft]
Apr 17 Wed	Guest Lecture by Derek Gaston (Senior Technical Advisor, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy) (slides) [guest]
Apr 22 Mon	Guest Lecture by Natalia Sanchez (Darktrace, UM alumus!) (slides) [guest]
Apr 25 Thu	—	Exam #2 Due (you pick a 2-hour window within this 24-hour day)
Apr 26 Fri	—	HW 6b (Contribution) Due All Course Materials Due (cannot be accepted later than this, please plan accordingly)