If you are using some other online sources,
search with Google or other search engines,
or other data bases, such as Web of Science,
Google Scholar, etc.,
you should satisfy all the above requirements
except for the following:
A list of papers, with full reference/citation information,
classified according to the following topic areas:
- A: defect/risk Analysis
- R: software Reliability engineering
- S: software Safety engineering
Again, the list from online literature research should contain
at least 5 papers per category; while the one from browsing
3 printed issues must have at least 3 paper per category.
Assignment #2/A: Analysis Techniques
(Defect Analysis and Risk Identification)
Due date: 9/15/2018
Use Tian/SQE Part IV chapters
(or the ODC paper in Lyu/HSRE and the risk analysis paper on Canvas)
and related references as your guide,
find an article or a book (containing some relevant chapters)
to help you understand better some of the
following topics:
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Causal analysis for individual defects and groups of defects,
and related analysis techniques and processes.
A good example is Ishikawa's "fishbone" diagram.
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Overall statistical defect analysis,
including trend analysis (e.g., Lyu/HSRE Ch. 10),
distribution analysis (lots of papers on this),
general defect models.
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Defect classification and analysis
(e.g., read one of the original ODC papers referenced
in Tian/SQE Ch.20, Ma/Tian web-ODC paper, or Lyu/HSRE Ch.9,
or recent development/applications
of ODC such as Lutz/Mikulski paper in our
online list).
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Risk identification techniques,
particularly newer ones such as
PCA/DA, NN, OSR, TBM, DM/ML
(e.g., read one of the references cited in Tian/SQE Ch.21,
or Lyu/HSRE Ch.17),
and their application in software quality assessment/prediction.
Your source document
may be a research paper discussing some
new defect/risk analysis techniques and/or applications,
a survey or information/summary/comparison article covering
existing knowledge about the subject,
or a book chapter (I don't expect you to read an entire book
for this assignment) about the topic.
However, it should not be one of the chapters or papers we
have covered in class already.
After studying your source document above,
write a short summary of the paper/chapter,
AND discuss the following (your critique):
- relative strengths and weaknesses of the described analysis technique(s),
especially as compared to existing and/or standard techniques
- applicability in traditional and emerging domains
- relevance to our class, e.g., relation to the topics we plan
to study in CS 8317
- relevance to your work, if applicable, or to your future professional
career goals.
In addition, the summary should be your own summary,
based on your understanding of the paper,
not the authors' summary/abstract.
The total length should be about 3-5 pages,
with a proper balance between the summary and the critique parts.
If you find the paper/chapter interesting and useful,
you might want to prepare a presentation as your individual paper
presentation (IPP).
In that case, please let me know, via e-mail, when you'd like to do the
presentation (the earlier, the better),
and reserve your presentation slot
(see the available slots and corresponding topics in
individual paper presentation schedule).
Assignment #3/R: Paper Summary/Critique
Due date: 9/29/2020
Select one paper about SRE
(either from homework #1 or based on additional literature research)
and write a short summary, analysis, and critique.
You summary/analysis/critique should be 3-5 double-spaced
pages of text.
Pay special attention to its relevance to CS 8317 and
to your work/future-career.
Some specifics about this assignment are listed below:
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The selected paper should be a published one
(see hw#1/L literature research description above),
and NOT a general background or survey paper
(which might be appropriate for Hw#2/A, but not for this one!).
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Again, the summary should be your own summary,
based on your understanding of the paper,
not the authors' summary/abstract.
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The analysis and critique is an important part of your essay
(at least as important as your summary itself),
which may include, among other things,
an analysis based on what we covered in class on related topics,
your subjective assessment of the paper
(it's technical merit, primarily, but people often make
comments about the organization/presentation as well),
what you would do differently,
practical impact of the reported work,
possible followup research and/or applications of the reported work.
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Discuss its relevance to what you are doing at work, if applicable,
or to your future professional career.
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Give full citation details
(for example reference listing, see either of our textbooks),
and provide a copy of the original abstract in the appendix
(not counted towards your 3-5 page limit).
If the paper was not publicly available
(e.g., internal report) or hard to track down
(e.g., regional or industry specific conferences),
you need to include a copy of the paper(s) with your homework submission,
again, in the appendix.
Assignment #4/S: Paper Summary/Critique
Due date: 10/13/2020
Repeat assignment #3/R for a software safety related paper.
Individual Paper Presentation
Notice: You may choose one of the above papers
for your individual paper presentation.
Try to reserve your presentation slot ASAP via e-mail.
See the available slots and corresponding topics in
individual paper presentation schedule.
Prepared by Jeff Tian
(tian@engr.smu.edu).
Posted: Aug. 25, 2020.
Last update: Aug. 25, 2020.