Introduction

This is the home page for CS682/3, a part of the graduate capstone sequence in software engineering. CS682 and CS683 are for year long team projects. Each team of 4 or 5 students will work on a project for a customer. Students will apply what they learned in CS680, CS681 and other courses to the production of a real software (product). Each project team will present its software product at the annual CS deaprtment party and annual alumni party in May 2007.

Course goals

• Work in a software development team for a full year
• Obtain a working knowledge of object-oriented analysis, design, implementation and testing
• Master presentation and documentation skills
• Effectively communicate with a customer
• Develop a professional quality of software product for a customer

Course Work

• Presentations by prospective customers
• Requirement gathering through discussions with a customer
• Software development for customers
• Testing and validation of developed software product
• Documentation and presentations on project progress

Projects

1. Academic Department Automation Management System (ADAMS) (Catalin Zara)
2. Voice Recognition System (Joan and Ethan Bolker)
3. A System for Psychophysical Experiments on Multiple-Object Tracking (Marc Pomplun) [slides]
4. Biologically-inspired Networking (Jun Suzuki) [slides]

Student Roster and Project Assignments

Here is a list of students.

Project Deliverables

Each project team will deliver the following artifacts to the instructor over the year:

• Project summary document
• Project requirements specification
• Project plan
• Progress reports
• Minutes of the meetings with a customer
• Installation and maintenance document
• Source/binary code and supporting resources
• Project wrap-up document
• Project web site contianing the above all resources

Homeworks

HW1 and HW2

Office Hours

S-3-168
M W 4:00pm-5:30pm

Grading

The grades for CS682 and CS683 will be based on a combination of the project team work and individual contribution to that effort.

Accommodations

Section 504 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 offers guidelines for curriculum modifications and adaptations for students with documented disabilities. If applicable, students may obtain adaptation recommendations from the Ross Center for Disability Services, M-1-401, (617-287-7430). The student must present these recommendations and discuss them with each professor within a reasonable period, preferably by the end of Drop/Add period.

Student Conduct

Students are required to adhere to the University Policy on Academic Standards and Cheating, to the University Statement on Plagiarism and the Documentation of Written Work, and to the Code of Student Conduct as delineated in the catalog of Undergraduate Programs, pp. 44-45, and 48-52. The Code is available online at http://www.umb.edu/student_services/student_rights/code_conduct.html.

See also http://www.cs.umb.edu/~eb/honesty.html.