CSE590N: Software Engineering

Winter 2001

David Notkin

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Room change: We're now in MGH 085: Tuesdays, 1:30-2:20PM.

This quarter we will start by looking at open source: what is it and what software engineering benefits does it (or does it not) provide?  For example, there are many anecdotal claims that open source inherently leads to better quality software.  Is this accurate?  If so, why?

There's a lot of material on the web including:

Here's the plan for the beginning of the quarter, as always subject to change.

I've also identified a couple of recent papers that we can read later in the quarter: