Supporting Material

Lecture Notes and Slides

Here is a chronological list of the available lecture notes and handouts from ECEN5543. They are in PowerPoint unless otherwise noted. Note that in the PowerPoint files, the View called Notes Page has additional information in the notes section below each slide. You can access each document by clicking on its title. If you right click and "Open in new window", it may be easier when you download.

Files below the horizontal line may not be current for this semester. Wait until a file is above the horizontal line before downloading it for class.

Wk1 Introduction to Requirements
Copies of the Chaos and Unfinished Voyages papers are available on this web site under "Assignments"
Wk1 David Lamb's diagram on "What Is A Requirement"
Week 2 Vision Document Template (Microsoft Word file)
Week 2 IEEE Recommended Practice for Software Requirements Specifications (pdf file, requires Acrobat Reader to view)
Week 2 Requirements Elicitation Interview Suggestions (Microsoft Word file)
Wk2 Requirements Elicitation (Powerpoint slides)
Wk2 Requirements Elicitation - Part 2 (Powerpoint slides)
Wk2 Chapter 7 from Managing Requirements by Leffingwell and Widrig (plus Table of Contents)
Wk2 Chapter 10 from Managing Requirements by Leffingwell and Widrig (plus Table of Contents)
Wk2 Chapter 14 from Managing Requirements by Leffingwell and Widrig (plus Table of Contents)
Wk2 Requirements Elicitation Checklist
Wk3 Requirements Analysis -- if you printed the Vision Document template and IEEE 830, it may be helpful to have them in class with you for making annotations; or you can save paper and just take notes about them.
Wk4 Requirements Verification & Management (lecture slides in PowerPoint)
Wk4 Excel Data (Excel file)
Wk4 Sample Requirements Management Plan (.rtf format)
Useful techniques for Wk4 Requirements Verification and Wk 5 System Test Planning (PDF file that is about 0.7Mb but poorer quality)
Useful techniques for Wk4 Requirements Verification and Wk 5 System Test Planning (PDF file that is about 1.2Mb but much better quality)
Wk5 System Test Planning -- A
Wk5 Sample State Transition Table - ATM Machine
Wk5 Targeting Safety-Related Errors During Software Requirements Analysis This is a smaller pdf file than the two below. The tradeoff is that the quality is poorer. One of the students found the paper online at better quality (and therefore a larger file) at
Targeting Safety-Related Errors (pdf, finer resolution)
The student also found a copy of the paper online in PS format at
Targeting Safety-Related Errors (PS format) On October 3, we will continue with the slides in Wk5 System Test Planning.
Lecture 11 System Test Planning, continued, including HAZOP
Wk6 System Test Planning Part 2
Wk6 HAZOP Intro
Wk6 Excerpts from System Safety: HAZOP and Software HAZOP (PDF format)
Wk6 Operational Profiles Intro
Wk7 Domain Modeling Background Info
Excerpts from Fairley on Design Notations and Techniques
Missing Pages belonging to the Excerpt from Fairley on Design Notations and Techniques, pp. 161-165
Lecture 15 Software Architecture(Powerpoint)
Lecture 16 Software Architecture -- Layers Pattern(Powerpoint)
Lecture 17 Software Architecture -- Layers Pattern and Architecture Reviews(Powerpoint)
October 26, 2006, Lecture 18 Architecture Business Cycle and Design for Maintainability
October 31, 2006, Lecture 19 Design for Maintainability (continued and updated)
Lecture 20 - November 2, 2006, Guest speaker Dan Willis from Qualcomm.
L21 Introduction to Glass Box Testing
L21 Glass Box Testing Day Two
Wk12 Testing OO Software, Part One, Principles (Powerpoint) This is more detailed in a few areas.
Testing OO Software, Part One, Principles Summary (Powerpoint) This is presentation is for class 11/14/06
Wk12 Testing OO Software, Part Two, Testing Models (Powerpoint)
Wk12 IEEE Test Plan Standard Outline (Word)
NOTE: November 20-22 is Fall Break at the University. No classes are held but the university is open. However, I do not plan on being in my office for office hours. If you want to meet with me on one of those days, email me to set up an appointment. November 23-24 is Thanksgiving holiday. The university is closed on those days. I will DEFINITELY not be in my office for office hours on Thursday! I hope you have much to be thankful for.
Wk13 Testing OO Software, Class Testing (Powerpoint) This file contains the original lecture notes for this 2-week unit. I have been modifying it this semester. The modifications are the source of the notes below.
Testing OO Software, Class Testing 1st lecture(Powerpoint)
Testing OO Software, Class Testing Example for 2nd lecture (Word doc)
Testing OO Software, Class Testing 2nd & 3rd lecture slides (PPT file)
Testing OO Software, Interaction Testing -- Sampling (PPT file) 12/05/2006 lecture on OO Testing -- how to sample fairly when there are too many combinations of interactions CopelandOnOATS.pdf
Excerpt on OATS (big pdf file) basis for 12/05/2006 lecture on OATS; taken from A Practitioner's Guide to Software Test Design, Lee Copeland, Artech House Publishers, ISBN 1-58053-791-X. This is an excellent book -- funny, direct, practical; covers every testing subject I have covered and a lot more. Less than 300 pages.
Below are sample class diagrams and sequence diagrams.
Class Diagram (pdf) Banking application -- at subsystem level of abstraction. Each box is a subsystem so there are no named methods or attributes.
Class Diagram (pdf) Factory Class Diagram at a subsystem level of abstraction. Each box is a subsystem so there are no named methods or attributes.
Class Diagram (pdf) for a library
Class Diagram (pdf) Royal Service Station (missing labels on the associations)
Sequence Diagram (pdf) Royal Service Station
Place Order Class Diagram (doc)
Place Order Sequence Diagram (doc)
Testing OO Software, 12/7/2006 (PPT file)
In the last week of class, we will look at how to weave it all together.

Ruth Dameron

Revision Date: 2005/08/23 09:00 a.m.