San José State University
Department of Computer Science
CS-160: Software Engineering

Instructor

Robert Bruce

Prerequisites

CS-146 and CS-151 (with a grade of "C-" or better in each); CS-100W (with a grade of "C" or better) or instructor consent.

Course Description

Software engineering principles, software process and process models, requirements elicitation and analysis, design, configuration management, quality control, project planning, social and ethical issues. Required team-based software development, including written requirements specification and design documentation, oral presentation, and tool use.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Design a scalable, relational database schema to support a computer vision face detection pipeline.
• Apply the Postgres application programming interface in software applications.
• Use the Active Appearance Modelling (AAM) algorithm from OpenFace to locate facial features.
• Use Delaunay triangulation from the OpenCV library to create a face mesh.
• Use the FFMPEG library to convert video into a series of still images.
• Use the FFMPEG library to extract video metadata information (frames per second, number of frames, etc.).
• Use named pipes, fork(), and exec() to implement inter-process communication in the face detection pipeline.
• Create dynamically-driven web page content using Apache.
• Apply software engineering principles through the entire development lifecycle from design, implementation, testing, release, and maintenance.

Required Texts/Readings

Beginning Software Engineering by Rod Stephens. ISBN-13: 978-1118969144.

Other Readings

PostgreSQL: Up and Running by Regina Obe and Leo Hsu.

Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library by Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler.

Grading

There are six programming assignments in this course. The programming assignments are designed as building blocks which lead to a culminating final project: a web-based, computer vision face detection system.

Each team will give four presentations to the class. These presentations are mandatory and graded. The first three presentations represent progress reports: Conceptual design reviews and prototype demos; Application design reviews; and Code reviews. In the fourth presentation (Application demonstration and contribution), each member of the team is expected to discuss their contributions on the project to the class as well as provide an application demonstration.

Each student is also expected to write a final project report. In this report, students will reflect on their own contributions as well as discuss the contributions of their team-mates.

Participation and strong communication are critical components for successfully completing this course. Each student is expected to contribute on their team’s project. If there are problems on a team (i.e. communication or participation), team members (both individually or as a group) are strongly encouraged to discuss the matter privately with the instructor as soon as possible. Students who do not contribute towards their team-project risk failing this class.

Assignment	Points
Biographical writeup†	2
Programming Assignment 1: Database schema‡	4
Programming Assignment 2: Web-based user login‡	6
Programming Assignment 3: Extract still images from video‡	8
Programming Assignment 4: Determine facial landmarks‡	8
Programming Assignment 5: Track eye pupils‡	8
Programming Assignment 6: Web-based display results‡	8
Presentation: Conceptual design reviews and prototype demos†	2
Presentation: Application design reviews†	2
Presentation: Code reviews†	2
Presentation: Application demonstration and contribution†	10
Final Project Report†	10
Midterm Exam	15
Final Exam	15
TOTAL POINTS	100

† Graded as an individual
‡ Graded as a group (each member of the group gets the same grade)

Grading Scale

Percent range	Grade
97% to 100% inclusive	A+
93% to 96% inclusive	A
90% to 92% inclusive	A-
87% to 89% inclusive	B+
83% to 86% inclusive	B
80% to 82% inclusive	B-
77% to 79% inclusive	C+
73% to 76% inclusive	C
70% to 72% inclusive	C-
67% to 69% inclusive	D+
63% to 66% inclusive	D
60% to 62% inclusive	D-
Below 60%	F

Course Schedule

Week	Topics, Readings, Assignments, Deadlines
1	What is software engineering? In-class assignment: Your programming experience and biographical information. Read: Chapter 1 of Beginning Software Engineering.
2	Postgres RDBMS (Relational Database Management System). Document management. Read: Chapter 2 of Beginning Software Engineering.
3	FFMPEG library and systems programming tools. Project management. Read: Chapter 3 of Beginning Software Engineering.
4	Processing FORM data from an HTTP POST. Requirement gathering. Read: Chapter 4 of Beginning Software Engineering.
5	Team presentations: Conceptual design reviews and prototype demos
6	High and low-level design. Secure session management with HTTP. Read: Chapters 5 and 6 of Beginning Software Engineering.
7	Programming the Postgres C API (Application Programmer Interface). Development. Read: Chapter 7 of Beginning Software Engineering.
8	Team presentations: Application design reviews
9	MIDTERM EXAM
10	Active Shape Modelling (ASM) and Active Appearance Modelling (AAM).
11	Testing. Eye pupil tracking. Read: Chapter 8 of Beginning Software Engineering.
12	Deployment, Metrics, and Maintenance. Drawing with OpenCV.
13	Delaunay triangles. Predictive models. Read: Chapter 12 of Beginning Software Engineering.
14	Team presentations: Code reviews
15	Iterative models. Rapid Application Development (RAD). Read: Chapter 14 of Beginning Software Engineering.
16	Team presentations: Application demonstration DUE: Programming Assignment 1. DUE: Programming Assignment 2. DUE: Programming Assignment 3. DUE: Programming Assignment 4. DUE: Programming Assignment 5. DUE: Programming Assignment 6. DUE: Final Project report.