CISC 498 Information Technology Project
School of Computing		2009-2010

Document Templates

• The project acceptance form is here
• Rough templates for
  • project plan (Due: Sept 29, 2009)
  • requirements document (Due: Oct 13, 2009)
  • external design document (Due: Nov 10, 2009)
  • internal design document (Due: Nov 24, 2009)
  • software quality assurance plan (Due: Dec 3, 2009)
  • deployment plan (Due: Feb 23, 2010)
  • final project document (Due: April 9, 2010)

Presentation Resources

• Open WetWare - How to present your research well
• Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft - How to give a good research talk
• Research Channel - How to give a great research talk

Software Process Resources

• Agile Software Development
• IronSpeed - Practical Guidelines in Agile Software Development
• Extreme Programming
• Extreme Programming: A gentle introduction
• Yahoo Group: Extreme Programming
• U. Glamorgan - Software Project Management Links
• Tigris.org - Collaborative Software Development

Software Requirements Resources

• Software Requirements Specification
• TechWRL - Writing Software Requirements
• Berkeley - Writing a Software Requirements Document
• Steve Easterbrook, U. Toronto - Requirements Engineering Course Lectures
• CISC / SOFT 423 Software Requirements Course Lectures

Software Design Resources

• Design Documents
• Joel on Software - Painless Functional Specifications
• NASA - Cost Estimation Tools
• List of UML Modelling Tools
• Mike Godfrey, U. Waterloo - Little UML Tools Page
• CISC 322 Software Architecture Course Notes

Software Quality Assurance Resources

• What is Software QA?
• SQA.net - Software Quality Assurance Definition
• Software QA and Test Resource Center
• Freshmeat - Review of Open Source Java and Web Testing Tools
• Open Source Software Testing Tools
• Open Source Testing Tools in Java
• Open Source Testing Tools in C#
• Open Source Web Testing Tools
• CISC 327 Software Quality Assurance Course Lectures

More Software Engineering Resources

• Software Engineering Institute
• Software Productivity Center - Resource Links
• Tantara Software Engineering Resources
• Warner/Orr Diagram Software
• Rational

Engineering Ethics

• Engineering Ethics
• Ethics Center for Enginering and Science
• SEERL - Software Engineering Ethics

Fun Stuff

• Dilbert Zone
• AI+CI Software Engineering Jokes