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CA421 Software Patterns & Metrics

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Renaat Verbruggen

School of Computing Room L2.43 (01)700.5257 renaat@computing.dcu.ie Moodle: CA421 Q&A etc.

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Assessment

Patterns Project, individual, 25% Final Exam, 2 hours, 75%

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Presentation

Lectures Readings available through Moodle Get the full readings completed early, use the

summaries to revise.

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Topics

1. Object-oriented Design Patterns

2. Architectural Patterns

3. Software Metrics

4. Software Cost Estimation

5. Software Test

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Book:

If you are to buy one book for the course then I recommend:

Object-Oriented Software Engineering: Practical Software Development using UML and Java Second EditionTimothy C. Lethbridge and Robert LaganièreMcGraw Hill, 2005ISBN 0-07-710908-2

The first edition is still worth picking up 2nd hand: ISBN 0-07-709761-0

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Book…

Website associated with book, including lectures by authors etc. at:

http://www.site.uottawa.ca/school/research/lloseng/supportMaterial/slides/

However I will link locally to the notes that we will be covering in lectures.

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Electronic Books in DCU library

DCU Library currently subscribes to a number of e-books which can be accessed via the Safari Books Online database. You can search the entire set of 40 e-books by keyword, author, subject, title, etc..

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Electronic Journals in DCU library

ACM Digital Library  Fulltext access to approximately 95% of all ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) articles and transactions. Abstracts of Proceedings are also available. Coverage: 1991 - to date   

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Electronic Journals …

IEL - IEEE/IEE Electronic Library Represents 30% of electrical engineering and computer science literature. IEL provides access to all IEEE journals, transactions, magazines and conference proceedings; IEE journals and conference proceedings; and current IEEE standards. Full-text is available from 1988 and selected content available from 1950.

E-tutorials User Guides (pdf): basic | advanced Search IEEE Help FAQ Coverage: 1988-

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Any Questions ?