Lecture Notes

The lecture sequence follows the lifecycle of a software-intensive system while revisiting quality and change throughout the semester.

Unit	Topic	Central question
0	Introduction	What makes software development an engineering discipline?
1	Processes & Life Cycles	How should work be organized under uncertainty?
2	Agile & Scrum	How can teams learn and deliver incrementally?
3	Requirements Engineering	What should the system do, and why?
4	Modeling with UML	How can we communicate structure and behavior?
5	Architecture	Which high-impact structural decisions shape the system?
6	Design Principles & Patterns	How do we reduce coupling and localize change?
7	Clean Code & Refactoring	How do we improve internal structure safely?
8	Version Control & Collaboration	How do teams coordinate changes and preserve history?
9	Software Testing	What evidence supports behavioral confidence?
10	CI/CD & DevOps	How do we shorten feedback loops and automate delivery?
11	Quality & Technical Debt	How do we reason about non-functional quality over time?
12	Secure Software Engineering	How do we engineer for adversarial conditions?
13	Management & Estimation	How do we plan while acknowledging uncertainty?
14	Maintenance & Evolution	How do systems survive years of change?
15	AI-Assisted SE	What changes when foundation models participate in development?

Each note contains learning objectives, core concepts, and an activity or checklist suitable for class discussion.