CSE 8317: Software Reliability and Safety

CSE 8317 (Fall, 2007): Software Reliability and Safety

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Prof. Jeff Tian
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
Southern Methodist University,
3145 Dyer Street, Dallas, TX 75275-0122
Caruth Hall Rm.317
(214)768-2861
(214)768-3085
tian@engr.smu.edu (preferred means of communication)
www.engr.smu.edu/~tian/class/8317.07f
8am-5pm 8/11, 8/25, 9/8, 9/22, 10/20 @LMRA
WTh 2-3:30pm
Contact Debra McDowell at (214)768-3080 or debra@engr.smu.edu

Announcement:

Your official 8317 grades were posted on access.smu on 11/5/07 (grade sheet were available prior to that date).
Reason: I'm waiting for the administration to generate the grade sheet, and will post the your grades as soon as it is available (hopefully in a day or two).

Course syllabus (a tentative schedule is embedded in the syllabus).
Reading material and slides (last update: 8/9/07) from our classes/textbooks, and also
- additional papers (some available online; last update: 8/9/07),
- online version of Michael Lyu's Handbook of SRE
- list of software engineering/quality literature
- relevant papers presented and/or suggested by your fellow classmates.
No hardcopy of the online homework assignment and other course information will be sent to you unless specifically requested (by contacting Debra).
Electronic submission of homework/project-related material by remote students are accepted in the following forms:
- Plain text files.
- Microsoft Word documents.
- Postscript files.
- HTML or other web documents.
Be sure put your name, preferably on every page, on the submitted work.
These submissions will not be individually acknowledged. But you can check with me if you suspect delivery problems.

Prepared by Jeff Tian (tian@engr.smu.edu).
Posted: Aug. 1, 2007. Last update: Nov. 5, 2007.