Graduate Software Engineering Course Offering Spring 2006:  - RJL060111
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http://www.cs.uml.edu/~lechner/06s524/06s524CourseAnnouncement060111.htm
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Software Engineering II, 91.524.291 (06s524) will be offered
this semester (Spring 2006) (instead of .91.523 SWEng I).
If over-enrolled it will be held at MCC/Lowell
(tentative location: LF Bldg Room LF214).

If under-enrolled, you will be able to drop/add 91.592.711 
Directed Study, with bi-weekly class meetings in OS209.
(By graduate petition 91.592 is usually acceptable
in a Software Engineering area course pair.)


Content:
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The focus of SEII (06s524) this year will be Microsoft's
Domain-Specific Language approach to Model-Driven Development
(DSL/MDD) which is explained in this 06s524 text:

"SOFTWARE FACTORIES: Assembling Applications with Patterns,
Models, Frameworks and Tools", Wiley 2004, by Microsoft authors
Greenfield and Short (with Steve Cook and Stuart Kent):

Our goal will be to apply their lessons learned to our own MDD framework  
inspired by OMG/UML/MDA (Model-Driven Architecture:
	http://www.cs.uml.edu/~lechner/COOL-FAQ


Pre-requisites:
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Do NOT try to take course 91.524 unless you have taken
its firm pre-requisite 91.522 OOAD OR 91.523 SWEng I.
Too much background is assumed on the content of
http://www.cs.uml.edu/~lechner/COOL-FAQ.
	
The latest 05f523 pre-req course Home Page is located at
    http://www.cs.uml.edu/~lechner/05f523/
Its text was: Breugge and Dutoit:
O-O Software Engineering (2ed., P-H 2004)

I anticipate the next 522/523/524 sequence will be repeated in 06f, 07s, and 07f.