SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Instructor: Dr. Betty H.C. Cheng, chengb at msu dot edu

Office hours: M, W: 4:20 - 5:00 (immediately following class), or by appointments

Teaching Assistants:

Kira Chan, (chanken1 at msu dot edu);

Sol Zilberman, (zilberm4 at msu dot edu)

Office hours via Zoom (See D2L message for link and passcode):

Tues : 5-6 pm; Thurs : 5-6 pm; or by appointment

• Syllabus (updated Aug 2025)
• Optional E-Textbook: Software Engineering (Pressman and Maxim, 9E, 2020)
• Lecture Notes (Updated October 2025)

• Introduction

  • Class Overview and SE Introduction (updated Aug. 25, 2025)

  Process Models and Software Quality

  • Process Models
  • Requirements Engineering
  • Risk Management (updated October 2025)

  UML Modelling

  • UML overview
  • Use case requirements
  • OOM Class Diagrams (updated October 2025)
  • Object Oriented Modelling (includes sequence and state diagrams; HHS example modeling) (updated Oct. 25)

  Automotive Cybersecurity

  • Automotive Cybersecurity (updated October 2025)
  • Security for Software Engineers (Guest Lecture) (updated Oct. 25)

  Machine learning in software engineering

  • Introduction to Deep Learning (Guest Lecture) (updated Oct. 25)

  Evolutionary Computation for Software Engineers

  • Search-Based Software Engineering (Guest Lecture) (updated Nov. 25)

  System Design

  • System Design
• Homework (updated September 2025)
• TBD

  Assignment 1 (due Wednesdayy, Sept. 3, 2025)

  • Homework 1: Need for Software Engineering
  • CSE435 Writing Tips (from CSE435 Instructors)
  http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf

  Assignment 2 (due Monday, Sept. 22, 2025)

  • Homework 2: AI Guardrails and Process Models
• Handouts

• AI-related Articles/Resources

  • ChatGPT Overview (Dr. Arun Ross, Nov. 7, 2023)
  • SB1047, California AI Legislation

  Industry-based Career Events via College of Engineering

  • Upcoming MSU Industry Events
  • MSU Career Information for STEM fields (Quite extensive resources)
  • Handshake Resources
  • Handshake's Guide to Attending a Virtual Fair Resources

  Writing Resources

  • CSE435 Writing Tips (from CSE435 Instructors)
  • IEEE Citation Reference Format Guide
  • Elements of Style (Strunk and White)

  Website Resources

  • Website Creation Guide (updated Nov. 25)

  Security for Automotive, On-Board Systems

  • Communication Technologies for Vehicles (Collection of several articles), Eds. A. Vinel, R. Mehmood, M. Berineau, C. Rico Garcia, C.M. Huang, N. Chilamkurti, Proceedings of 4th International Workshop, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains 2012, April 2012, Springer, LNCS7266.
  • Security threats to automotive networks CANPractical examples and selected short-term countermeasures T. Hoppe, S. Kiltz, J. Dittmann, in Journal of Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2011, pp. 11-25.
  • Security Requirements for Automotive On-Board Networks, O. Henniger, L. Apvrille, A. Fuchs, Y. Roudier, A. Ruddle, B. Wey, in Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Telecommunications (ITST),, 2009, October 2009, pp. 641-646.

  Automotive Electronics References

  Electronic Steering

  • Electronic Power Steering

  Cruise Control

  • Continental Automotive Systems - ADAS

  CAN & Diagnostics

  • Diagnostics on CAN
  • Vehicle Bus

  Requirements Engineering

  • Prospects for an Engineering Discipline of Software, Mary Shaw, IEEE Computer, November 1990.
  • Requirements Engineering, Chapter excerpt, by J. Atlee, 2007.
  • On formalism in specifications, B. Meyer, IEEE Software, 1985.

  Software Product Line Modeling with UML Extensions

  • Use case modeling with variation and variants stereotyped
  • UML Profile for Software Product lines
  • Product Line Derivation Example (short version)
  • Product Line Derivation Example (extended version with multiple examples)

  Software Requirements Specification

  • IEEE Standard for Specification Requirements

  IEEE Standards

  • IEEE 24765 - Systems and software engineering, Vocabulary

  Relevant articles for AI in safety-critical systems

  • CNBC: Biden issues U.S.' first AI executive order, requiring safety assessments, civil rights guidance, research on labor market impact
• Exam Information:
• Exam1: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
• Exam2: Monday, November 24, 2025
• Final Exam Slot (Customer presentations): Monday, December 8, 2025 (3-5 pm)

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  Visual Paradigm

  Installation path for Apple Silicon

  Installation path for Intel

  Academic Partner Program has made possible the use of VP-UML at Michigan State University for educational purpose (see email regarding MSU academic licenses).
  

The instructing team and class of CSE435 gratefully thank our industrial collaborators for their contributions and time.

Presentation Schedule

• Dec. 1, 3, 2025 (during class slot); Dec. 8, 2025 (3-5 pm, during final exam slot)

Project Descriptions (Free of proprietary information)

• TBD

Templates

• Template for Summaries of Group Meetings
• Template for Use Case Description
• Data Dictionary Template
• SRS Requirements Document Template (doc) (pdf)
• SRS Inspection Guidelines
• Presentation Guidelines and Tips
• Presentation Template

Rubrics

• SRS v1
• SRS v2
• Website Grading Rubric

Project Teams

• TBD

Website Resources

• Website Creation Guide (updated Nov. 25)
• Unity Build Information

Sample SRS Documents

• Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control++ (Erich Hairston, Dean Dawson, Gabrie Italia, Evan Shoup, Kaela Burger)
• Backup Collison Avoidance System (Camille Lewis, Kira Chan, Brenden Hein, Cameron White)
• Pedestrian Backup Assist System (Madison Bowden, Austin Evans, Jacob Loukota, Sai Priya Vaddineni)

Tips and comments for SRS

• Tips and comments for SRS from the instruction team

Project Websites

List of Project Websites (will be updated regularly)

• TBD