Study programme 2015 - 2016
Activité d'apprentissage à la Faculty of Science
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  • MENS Tom
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      HT(*) HTPE(*) HTPS(*) HR(*) HD(*) Term
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      Contents

      The laws of software evolution
      Legacy systems, migration, reverse engineering and re-engineering
      Technical debt, software quality analysis and improvement
      Change progpagation and change impact analysis
      Software evolution process models
      Regression testing;
      Software repository mining: Visualisation and analysis of the software evolution history
      Software configuration management and version control
      Effort and cost prediction and estimation
      Software product line engineering
      Software ecosystems
      Tools for supporting the maintenance and evolution of software

      Required Learning Resources/Tools

      Not applicable

      Recommended Learning Resources/Tools

      Not applicable

      Other Recommended Reading

      Tom Mens, Alexander Serebrenik, Anthony Cleve (editors). Evolving Software Systems. Springer, 2014
      Tom Mens and Serge Demeyer (editors). Software Evolution, Springer, 2008
      Nazim H. Madhavji and Juan F. Ramil and Dewayne E. Perry (editors). Software Evolution and Feedback: Theory and Practice, Wiley, 2006. ISBN 0-470-87180-6 
      Penny A. Grubb and Armstrong A. Takang. Software Maintenance: Concepts and Practice (2nd edition), World Scientific Pub Co, 2003. ISBN 981-238425-1 
      Hongji Yang and Martin Ward. Succesful Evolution of Software Systems, Artech House, 2003. ISBN 158-053349-3 
      Thomas M. Pigoski. Practical Software Maintenance: Best Practices for Managing your Software Investment, John Wiley and Sons, 1997. ISBN 0-471-17001-1 
      Meir M. Lehman and L. A. Belady. Program Evolution: Processes of Software Change, Academic Press, 1985. ISBN 0-12-442441-4

      Mode of delivery

      • Mixed

      Term 1 Assessment - type

      • N/A

      Term 1 Assessment - comments

      Not applicable

      Term 2 Assessment - type

      • Presentation and works
      • Written examination

      Term 2 Assessment - comments

      Term 2 will be assessed on the basis of the following weighted evaluation:
      - Evaluation of a work assignment carried out by the students (in groups of 1 to 3 persons): 40% of the final note
      - Oral presentation (on the basis of slides produced by the student) of the summary of a scientific article or book chapter: 30% of the final note
      - Written examination : 30% of the final note

      Term 3 Assessment - type

      • Presentation and works
      • Written examination

      Term 3 Assessment - comments

      Term 3 will be assessed using the same weighted evaluation as Term 2,
      but there will only be a written examination and the evaluation of the work assignment carried out by the student.
      The note obtained during Term 2 for the oral presentation will be taken into account for the evaluation in Term 3.

      Resit Assessment - Term 1 (B1BA1) - Comments

      Not applicable

      Type of Teaching Activity/Activities

      • Cours (cours magistraux; conférences)
      • Travaux pratiques / travaux de laboratoire / exercices de création et recherche en atelier / projet sur ordinateur /études de cas
      • Préparations, travaux, recherches d'information
      UE : Programme component - AA : Teaching activity
      (*) HT : Hours of theory - HTPE : Hours of in-class exercices - HTPS : hours of practical work - HD : HMiscellaneous time - HR : Hours of remedial classes. - Per. (Period), Y=Year, Q1=1st term et Q2=2nd term