CS 477 Resources

This page links you to informational and other resources.

MBASE "Templates"

These Word 97 documents are not "templates" (*.dot files) in the sense that Microsoft uses. They are documents (*.doc files) that you open and then modify to suit your team's needs. You will need to use these in the order given as deliverable at the various class presentation milestones.

Operational Concept Description: OCD (due at 1st, 2nd, and 3rd presentation (only if your team is using MBASE))
System and Software Requirements Definition: SSRD (due at 2nd and 3rd presentation (only if your team is using MBASE))
System and Software Architecture Description: SSAD (due at 2nd and 3rd presentation (only if your team is using MBASE))
Life Cycle Plan: LCP (due at 2nd and 3rd presentation (only if your team is using MBASE))
Feasibility Rationale Description: FRD (due at 2nd and 3rd presentation (only if your team is using MBASE))

MBASE Deliverables Guidelines

This is a fairly large document (107 pages) that describes in detail the creation and use of the MBASE deliverable documents for the LCO and LCA milestones.

Lecture Slides

Some of the lecture slides are available in Microsoft PowerPoint form. These slides are copyrighted by the Center for Software Engineering and provided for your personal use as a registered student in this course only. No other use is allowed without written permission.

HTML

Learn hypertext markup language (HTML) at NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML.

Microsoft Laboratory in Salvatori 200C

The Microsoft Laboratory has 12 NT machines from which you can run network services for system development. These machines also have some CASE tools and there is a SQL database server available. The CS department system administrator, Luigi Manna (csreq@pollux.usc.edu), has created eight accounts for the use of the project teams.

Email: Richard dot J dot Wagner at gmail dot com