CPSC 480-010 Software Engineering (SE) Fall 2026

Week 8 Class 15 Tue Oct 13 Posted: Oct 13

After Class

• Project 2 Feedback in GitHub, scores in Brightspace. If your iteration capacity was not correct, I strongly suggest that you figure out what is wrong before the Midterm Exam. Also, You are not allowed to exceed the iteration capacity.

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• Midterm Exam

• Exercise 34: Team Text Match II

  Some observations regarding team collaboration and outcomes:

  • All team members should have a basic understanding of the technology used. In this case, for building programs: compiling, linking, options, etc. For Make, how to write rules. Some research might be needed, and while some team members may know more about particular points than others, everyone must have a fundamental understanding.
  • All changes must be verified by any means necessary. Many commits included modifications that would cause an error when make is run. Not every team member did this.
  • It was necessary to coordinate who was doing what. The team was in person at the same time, so this should have been straightforward. Consider what would happen if the team were distributed across different work schedules.
  • Allowing the team to only work on the program sequentially wastes ^(n-1)/_n of the potential. There was no reason why the two executables, textmatch and regexCountTest, couldn't be worked on in parallel. Declarative languages are easier to work on independently than other types of languages due to simpler structures. E.g., make is easier to work on independently than C++.
  • The team cannot afford even one member who makes unverified commits, submits changes that aren't aligned with other work, or has limited foundational knowledge.
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Class

• Notes: Build Files

• Guide: Build Configurations

  • How many GCC optimization levels are there?
  • MSVC optimizations /O options (Optimize code)

• Exercise 35: Build Configurations

  Fill out the Build Configurations table so that it reaches 82,944 different configurations.

  Upload to Brightspace.

• HFSD Chapter 7

• Exercise 36: Team Text Match III

  • build-files-f26-010
  • GNU Make
  • Make Rule Introduction What a rule looks like
  • Automatic Variables including $@, $<, and $^