CS 427

CS 427 - Software Engineering I

Fall 2025

TitleRubricSectionCRNTypeHoursTimesDaysLocationInstructor
Software Engineering ICS427DS350494ONL3 -    Lingming Zhang
Software Engineering ICS427DS470960ONL4 -    Lingming Zhang
Software Engineering ICS427S336107ONL3 -    Lingming Zhang
Software Engineering ICS427SG41594ONL4 -    Lingming Zhang
Software Engineering ICS427SU36104ONL3 -    Lingming Zhang
Software Engineering ICSE426DS360402ONL3 -    Lingming Zhang
Software Engineering ICSE426DS481169ONL4 -    Lingming Zhang
Software Engineering ICSE426S336112ONL3 -    Lingming Zhang
Software Engineering ICSE426SG76711ONL4 -    Lingming Zhang
Software Engineering ICSE426SU36110ONL3 -    Lingming Zhang

Official Description

Software process, analysis and design. Software development paradigms, system engineering, function-based analysis and design, and object-oriented analysis and design. Course will use team-projects for hands-on exercises. Course Information: Same as CSE 426. 3 undergraduate hours. 3 or 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One of CS 222, CS 240, CS 241, CS 340, CS 341 or ECE 391.

Course Director

Text(s)

Varies by semester, using course notes available for free and linked from the course Wiki

Learning Goals

Compare & Contrast different software engineering and development processes. (1), (2), (4), (6)
Learn a particular process (XP: user stories, test-driven development, refactoring, pair programming). (1), (2), (4), (6)
Improve activities that are common to most processes (configuration management, testing, metrics, documentation, reverse engineering, refactoring). (1), (2), (4), (6)
Contribute effectively to a team in maintaining existing large code (CS427) ot developing new code (CS428/9). (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with peers and software customers (TAs), and describe your process (the latter for CS429). (3), (5)
Manage/organize software projects (requirements, architecture, design, documentation, management, planning). (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
Use a set of modern software development services (e,g., GitHub, Travis) (2), (3), (5), (6)

Topic List

(CS 427) Software development processes
(CS 427) Software configuration management
(CS 427) Testing
(CS 427) Debugging
(CS 427) Component-based software engineering
(CS 427) Refactorings
(CS 427) Code smells
(CS 427) Reverse Engineering
(CS 427) Metrics
(CS 427) Design Patterns
(CS 427) Software Documentation
(CS 427) Large code
(CS 428/9) Managing Software Projects
(CS 428/9) Requirements
(CS 428/9) UML
(CS 428/9) Design
(CS 428/9) Quality Assurance
(CS 428/9) Non-XP development processes
(CS 428/9) User Interface Design
(CS 428/9) Performance/Security/Web Engineering

Last updated

2/15/2019