Editing Software Engineering (Fall 2025) (section)

=== September 25 (Thursday): Introduction to the Course, Software Engineering, and SDLC ===

'''Before Class'''
* Watch the 'Introduction to CSS 360' video.
* Read over the syllabus (this document!) and be ready to ask questions.

'''In-class Goals'''
* Review class structure and plan for the quarter
* Dive in on content: what is software engineering? What is the software development life cycle?
* Start the class checklist

'''Optional Materials'''
* ''Interested in how this broad idea of a Software Development Lifecycle then gets used to advance our thinking via research? Check out this poster example using a generic SDLC customized for research software as a way to organize our thinking about how to develop software for research:'' Yehudi Y, Cashman M, Felderer M, Goedicke M, Hasselbring W, Katz DS, et al. Towards Defining Lifecycles and Categories of Research Software. deRSE25 Conference Proceedings. 2025;doi:10.5281/zenodo.15002661. [https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/60845/| Poster Link]
* ''Interested in how security gets integrated with the Software Development Lifecycle?'' Read: A. Wee, A. Kudriavtseva and O. Gadyatskaya, "“Have Heard of it”: A Study with Practitioners on Adoption of Secure Software Development Frameworks," 2024 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), Vienna, Austria, 2024, pp. 626-633, doi: 10.1109/EuroSPW61312.2024.00076. [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10628637| Paper Link]