Not assessed.
Accreditation of Qualifications:
- Washington Accord (WA): Professional Engineers
- Sydney Accord (SA): Engineering Technologists
- Not engineers, but may be delegated authority by professional engineers
- Requires a degree
- Dublin Accord (DA): Engineering Technicians
- Requires a certification
WA graduate attributes:
- Assessable outcomes
- Gives confidence that the educational TODO
- The same for each discipline
Lifelong learning:
- critically analyzing what you are doing
- learning about concepts, not specific tools
SENG401:
- Question: be skeptical
- ‘It depends’
- Arguing/debating
- With justification and examples
- Arguing for the other side to what you believe
- Code ownership
- Estimation
- Should we?
- If not, what do we replace it with? Does it require replacement?
- Technical debt
- Broken window, hole in the roof
- Interest, paying it off, when? = Visibility access Design by contract Design erosion Code smell, metric Solving problems, research, balanced viewpoints, communication todo
Standards
- Why do we have them?
- Pros/cons What can we learn from then? Thinking about society-wide level Verification & validation CMMI Putting ourselves in the customer’s shoes? Organization-wide standards What does ‘maturity’ mean? When might we want to be appraised Software: never finished; Other disciplines
Quality What Why do we care? Difference in context = difference in strategy Testing strategy Testing techniques Not just automated testing Audit Observing a real team Data, analysis, interpretation Processes, code metrics Objective/subjective analyses: hard/soft V&V Live review: beside manner todo
What was the purpose of the audit? Different, unknown technology used by the 2022 projects Seeing them make the same mistake we did: reflection Team issues Team cohesion: sub-groups or working alone Step 1: awareness of issues Ignoring the root issue Importance of setting and following rules How different personality types interact with each other Differing expectations/goals between team members Recency effect: looking back on start of SENG302
What was the purpose of assignment 2:
Exam
- Take-home exam
- PDF
- Learn: auto-save didn’t work in one exam
- Submit PDF on Learn dropbox
- Can look up anything; cannot communicate with others
- 4 essay-style questions
- Incomplete scenario: must make and state assumptions
- ‘I would ask this question of these people: if this response do that’
- Try keep the answers succinct - essays, not a thesis
- Answers may have headings
- Balanced answers: do not take a strong stance
- Diagnosis, recommendations, justifications, examples
- Put the recommendations within the context of the scenario
- Cite articles
- 24 hours available
- Gives you time to think
- Reduces time pressure and anxiety
- Sleep!
- Parkinson’s law: the work grows to fill up the time
- DM Moffat on SENG401 Slack if required; class updates on exam channel
- Before the exam, feel free to chat with Moffat; alone or groups
- After the exam, cannot talk until results are released
Quality without name? Objective or subjective quality?
Christopher Alexander: young professionals: acceptance of standards that are too low.