Software Engineering:Analysis and Design

This page contains links to a number of useful documents and resources for students in the unit.

Documents

• Unit Outline (doc)      Unit Outline (PDF)
• Key to Documents (doc)    Key to Documents (PDF)
• C++ LOC Standard (doc)    C++ LOC Standard (PDF)
• McCall's Software Quality Checklist (doc)    McCall's Software Quality Checklist (PDF)
• Compilation of Past Exams (1998-2001) (doc)    Compilation of Past Exams (1998-2001) (PDF)
• Suggested answers for 2000 exam (doc)    Suggested answers for 2000 exam (PDF)
        - these are suggested answers only; other solutions are possible.
• Suggested answers for 2001 exam (doc)    Suggested answers for 2001 exam (PDF)
        - these are suggested answers only; other solutions are possible.

Interesting Articles

• The Lost Arts of Programming, Gene Callahan, Dr. Dobb's Journal, January 1999. "A couple of months ago, as I reached for a book I needed from a large pile of others, a second book accidentally tumbled to the floor. Picking it up, I found that it was Meilir Page-Jones' 1980 classic, The Practical Guide to Structured Systems Design ... Reading the book, I was amazed at how much knowledge has been lost in a rush to embrace OOP, RAD, visual programming, and other modern technologies."
• Cohesion, Meilir Page-Jones, Ch. 6 of The Practical Guide to Structured Systems Design, © 1998
• Organizational Structures (Accountability), Martin Fowler, new version of Ch.2 of Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models, © 1996

CASE and drawing tools

• Student Edition of Rational Rose CASE Tool (9.2Mb ZIP file), Rational Software is the home of the developers of UML.
• SmartDraw drawing tool for PCs. Very useful for structured analysis and design.
• Personal Assistant for Software Engineers (PASE)

OO and UML Resources

• Object Management Group UML specification
• v.1.3, June 1999. (pdf 3.5Mb) (ps.gz 1.5Mb) (the one your texts are most likely to have used)
• v.1.4, September 3001. (pdf 4.7Mb) (ps.gz 1.6Mb)
• Rational Rose UML Quick Reference
• Robert Martin's C++ Report articles on principles of good OO design, from articles available at Object Mentor.
• 1. The Open-Closed Principle
• 2. The Liskov Substitution Principle
• 3. The Dependency Inversion Principle
• 4. The Interface Segregation Principle
• 5. Granularity (Reuse/Release Equivalency Principle, The Common Closure Principle, The Common Reuse Principle, Acylclic Dependencies Principle)
• 6. Stability (Stable Dependencies Principle, Stable Abstractions Principle)

Resources and links for assignment 1

Windows demonstration version of Lemmings:

• wlemm-m.zip (demos for many other platoforms are available from the sites below)
• Wing10.exe (WinG libraries required for above). Microsoft link

Lemmings fan sites with many resources:

• The Lemmings Compendium
• LEM.NET
• Oh No! It's the Lemmings Games Web Page