CPSC 480-020 Software Engineering (SE) Fall 2023

Week 3 Class 5 Tue Sep 19 Posted: Sep 19

Announcements:

• Resume

  If you bring a printed copy of your resume to me during my Office Hours or Advising Hours on Tuesday, September 19, or Thursday, September 21, I will be happy to review it and provide suggestions for improvement. I am also available for one-on-one remote Teams meetings during these hours, although in-person students will be given priority.

• GitHub (Repost) We use GitHub and GitHub Classroom in the class to manage source code for projects, exercises, and examples. You are required to have a GitHub account.

  Optionally, you can apply to the GitHub Global Campus and get a free GitHub Pro account.

  To apply, your account email can be a school account, or a personal account if you upload documents to prove your current enrollment status.

• Estimates

  • Estimation in software development is not about gauging the minimum time it would take you to complete a user story. It's about understanding and predicting the genuine effort required in the context of your regular 5-day workweek and 50 weeks of work in a year. Remember, an estimate is not a speed challenge but rather a measure of how long it will realistically take to thoroughly implement a user story.
  • Avoid the trap of only considering the quickest or simplest implementation. Proper estimation requires thoughtful consideration of all possible complexities. Moreover, completing a user story quickly doesn't mean the rest of the day is free; there's always another user story waiting. This is not a class assignment or a lab exercise where once you are finished you are done for the day.
  • Refrain from using phrases like "All we have to do…” when discussing software tasks. Such assumptions often oversimplify the complexities inherent in coding.

Class

• Project 1: Requirements Report

• Exercise 12: Project 1 Setup

  Sign into your GitHub account.

  Then, use the GitHub Classroom invitation link in Brightspace for Project 1 to create your repository.

• HFSD Chapter 3
• Exercise 13: HFSD Chapter 3 Crossword
• HFSD Chapter 4
• Exercise 14: Team User Story Estimates II

Unless stated otherwise, all exercises are due by 3:30 pm on Wed Sep 20