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Items of Importance

• Syllabus
• Schedule
• Projects
• Team Assignment
• Project Roles and Responsibilities
• Past Team Pages (for examples)

The debugging project

Readings

Required

• Building Better Systems Using Modern Methods (Custom book from CCSU bookstore)
• Inside Risks CACM
• Real Work, Necessary Friction, Option Chaos (Armour, CACM 6/04)
• Capability Maturing Model Paper (Adobe PDF file - 466k) - sections 1-3 (pages 1-42 as marked on the bottom of the page, or pages 18-59 as shown in Adobe Reader) are relevant
• Microsoft Solutions Framework Paper (PDF)

Supplemental

• Microsoft's Visual Source Safe Whitepaper (supplemental)
• The importance of testing
• Proper bug reporting
• Quality Assurance: Much More than Testing
• 10 Commandments of Project Management

Lecture Slides

• Models of Development (The Cathedral and the Bazaar)
• The Importance of Testing (Aw, Gee, Mom, Do I Have to Test?)
• Project Roles
• Planning
• Requirements
• Testing
• Capability Maturity Model
• Microsoft Solutions Framework

Templates

• Project Plan
• Test Plan

Legacy

• Summer 2005
• TQA Spring 2005
• Projects for Spring 2005
• Spring 2006
• Summer 2006

A funny link on IDEs and commenting.