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Full Year Software Engineering Laboratory (FYSEL)

This FYSEL is patterned after the full-year capstone project or studio
project that is found in many top-flight software engineering degree
programs around the world.

It will be an attempt to do a full development lifecycle on an
enhancement of a legacy program, for maximum realism. That is, it is
known that 90% of software development these days and in the future is
enhancement of previously written software. The students will be asked
to build an enhancement to a program given at the beginning of the year
by the instructor. A full lifecycle will be followed starting with
requirements elicitation, analysis, and specification, continuing with
design, planning tests, implementing, testing, and deploying, and
possibly even some additional enhancement.

The first semester is devoted to the requirements, designing and
planning activities, and  the second semester will be devoted to the
implementation, testing, and deployment activities.

The associated lectures will describe techniques for the processes
needed in the current stage of development.

The initial meetings will be devoted to dividing into teams of not more
than 5 and not less than 3. Each team will set up its own process,
database, and management and will be expected to conduct itself with as
much software maturity (as in CMM) as possible.

For the 1997-1998 FYSEL, the program to be enhanced is an already
written WYSIWYG drawing program that is in need of improved
functionality and user interface. Because of the nature of the problem,
it is suggested that JAVA be used to carry out the programming. The
original program is written in C and teams will be encourage to reuse
as much of the legacy code as desired.  Certainly most of the
functionality can be taken intact from the legacy program, but probably
the entire user interface will need to be redone, most likely in JAVA.

The instructor for the first semester is Daniel Berry and the
instructor for the second semester is Eliezer Kantorowitz. Their
expertises are suited for the processes to be carried out in their
semesters.