Individual/Team Project Assignments
| Team |
Member(s) |
Project Name |
| 1 |
Loren Stroup
|
Estimate/measure defects |
| 2 |
James Doty
|
Cluster controller |
| 3 |
Lucas Schroeder
|
Agile software development methodologies |
| 4 |
Andrew Browne
|
Humane chess engine |
| 5 |
Brian Koksal
|
UML generating tool |
| 6 |
Valery Martinez
|
Software reliability engineering |
| 7 |
Adriana Ogasawara, Joshua Mahaz
|
Intruder detection system |
| 8 |
Jason Beck
|
Virtual Wiiality |
| 9 |
Mukundan Venkataraman, Mohamed Z. Ahmad
|
SenSim: a sensor network simulator in Java |
| 10 |
Volodymyr Pryyma, Mustafa I. Akbas
|
Autonomous rechargeable sensor network simulator |
| 11 |
Bennie Lewis
|
Software Testing |
| 12 |
Enrique Ortiz, O. Bilal Orhan
|
Where are my friends? |
| 13 |
Christopher Stricklan
|
Matrix LU solver in Java |
| 14 |
Vatana An
|
Software automation tools |
| 15 |
Gloria H. Law
|
Agile softare development with Scrum |
Guidelines for project reports
For the project report, please use the ``latex'' (version available
for Windows and Linux). See the definition of Latex from Wikipedia. You can
download the MikTEX. The The Not
So Short Introduction to LATEX is a good manual that I would recommend.
Please use Bibtex for the references.
Please use the templates from IEEE
publications site.
If you have any questions, please post it to the class emailing address which
would be useful for the other students since there are some students in the
class who have experience with latex. You do not need to copy the TA or I since
we are both in the emailing list.
Possible Software Engineering II Class Projects
Project 1: Equation Extraction
Scientific papers are typically filled with equations and analysis. To make use
of those relationships, it is typically necessary to manually wade through the
paper, searching for the equations that are useful.
Your job is build a piece of software that automatically extracts and stores
equations from PDF files. The equations should be stored in MathML so that they
can be searched for later on. Automatically extracting these equations will
enable a new kind of web search that will help scientists and engineers
everywhere.
Contact:Jimmy Secretan, School of Electical Engineering and
Computer Science, Email: secretj@cfl.rr.com University of Central Florida,
Orlando, 32816-2362. Cell: 408-325-3581.
Project 2: Cluster Controller
Today it is common to find large Linux cluster computers composed of hundreds of
nodes. They tend to be difficult to manage simply because of the number of nodes
to be managed. One possible way to simplifying their management is through
highly visual applications.
Your job is to build an application that will manage a large number of related
cluster nodes and represent them visually. Users should be able to quickly see
what nodes are up or down, and using the mouse, select groups of nodes to
control simultaneously. Users should then be able to issue commands to the
selected nodes over ssh
Contact:Jimmy Secretan, School of Electical Engineering and
Computer Science, Email: secretj@cfl.rr.com University of Central Florida,
Orlando, 32816-2362. Cell: 408-325-3581.
Project 3: Automated Intrusion Detection
Viruses and spyware are a huge problem with modern computing, costing billions
of dollars a year in productivity. These malware applications have become
increasingly sophisticated and continue to outsmart pattern matching approaches
used by modern spyware/virus scanners. As such, your task will be to design a
prototype system capable of automatically detecting system instrusion. Much
research has already been done on the algorithms capable of this, but no readily
available proof of concept exists. You will produce a simple system that can
scan the computer and recognize a potential threat based on previous data, not
tediously made template files.
Contact:Jimmy Secretan, School of Electical Engineering and
Computer Science, Email: secretj@cfl.rr.com University of Central Florida,
Orlando, 32816-2362. Cell: 408-325-3581.
Project 4: Software Process
Define a tailored software process specifically designed for Web-application
development,in particular, WebApps that use a database. Are there any
specialized effort and schedule models for such projects (e.g. Cocomo - like)?
Project 5: Estimate/Measure Defects
How do you measure/estimate number of defects remaining in code at time of
release? (Hint: related variables to this question include defect detection
rate, defect removal efficiency, defect density, and process maturity.)
Project 6: Software Quality
Review studies on the cost-of-quality in software engineering literature.
It is generally considered hard to apply the results to a specific project.
Provide suggestions on how to assess the cost-of-quality for three example
projects of your choosing.
Project 7: Software Product Quality
What is the impact of the organization's level (ISO certified or CMM assessed)
on the product quality?
Project 8: Software Testing
What would be different when a software tester performs test planning for
different systems and application domains? Consider mass-market software
products, COTS software, internal-use-only software tools, embedded software.
Project 9: Software Testing
There are open research problems and/or questions about statistical usage-based
web testing, especially with the missing information or information not recorded
in the server access logs. Research and suggest alternative ways to obtain such
a missing information or how to deal with other open problems and/or questions.
Project 10: Software Testing
Even though several emprical studies which compare inspection more favorably
than testing, it is still not as widely used as testing. Describe your
assessment behind this statement.
Project 11: Software Reliability Engineering
Software reliability engineering is both an active area of research and area
with great potential for practical applications. Describe its potential in the
web-based applications and software, or other emerging market.
Project 12: Software Automation Tools
Select three automated software estimation tools to use. You can find them on
the web with a demo version or short time period licences.
(a) Determine the types of algorithms each of them use
(b) Review the tools you selected and provide critique for each of them
(pros/cons, improvements if any) and order them according to your preference.