CS-340 Lectures – Kevin Angstadt :: Teaching

Date	Lecture	Topic(s)	Homework (for next class)
2026-03-18	19	Fuzzing Defect Reports and Triage Bug Life Cycle Bug Life Cycle (alternative)	Project 3 due Friday, April 3 11:59 PM Eastern Readings: None BONUS: Attend π-athlon on Wednesday, March 18 from 4:30–5:15pm in PQRC Lounge and take selfie
2026-03-16	18	Fuzzing Defect Reports and Triage Bug Life Cycle Bug Life Cycle (alternative)	Project 3 due Friday, April 3 11:59 PM Eastern Readings: Bug Tracking System on Wikipedia What Makes a Good Bug Report? by Bettenburg et al. Reading Quiz (Gradescope) BONUS: Attend π-athlon on Wednesday, March 18 from 4:30–5:15pm in PQRC Lounge and take selfie
2026-03-11	17	CI/CD Test Input Generation	Project 2 Final submission due Wednesday, March 11 11:59 PM Eastern (Gradescope) Project 3 due Friday, April 3 11:59 PM Eastern Readings: Fuzzing: Breaking Things with Random Inputs by Andreas Zeller (up to Program-Specific Checkers) Reading Quiz (Gradescope)
2026-03-09	16	CI/CD Java HTML Parser	Project 2 Final submission due Wednesday, March 11 11:59 PM Eastern (Gradescope) Readings: Continuous Integration on Wikipedia Continuous Testing on Wikipedia Continuous Delivery on Wikipedia Optional: Continuous Delivery in the Wild by Pete Hodgson No Reading Quiz
2026-03-04	15	Testing as Sampling (continued) Mutation Testing CI/CD	Project 2 Checkpoint 2 due Friday, March 6 11:59 PM Eastern (GitHub) UPDATED Final submission due Wednesday, March 11 11:59 PM Eastern (Gradescope) Readings: Mutation testing on Wikipedia Optional: State of Mutation Testing at Google by Petrovic and Ivankovic No Reading Quiz
2026-03-02	14	Test Suite Quality Metrics Testing as Sampling	Project 2 Checkpoint 1 due Friday, February 27 11:59 PM Eastern (GitHub) Checkpoint 2 due Friday, March 6 11:59 PM Eastern (GitHub) UPDATED Final submission due Wednesday, March 11 11:59 PM Eastern (Gradescope) Readings: An Empirical Evaluation of the MC/DC Coverage Criterion on the HETE-2 Satellite Software by Dupuy and Leveson Reading Quiz (Gradescope)
2026-02-25	13	Exam 1	Project 2 Checkpoint 1 due Friday, February 27 11:59 PM Eastern (GitHub) Checkpoint 2 due Friday, March 6 11:59 PM Eastern (GitHub) UPDATED Final submission due Wednesday, March 11 11:59 PM Eastern (Gradescope) Readings: Code Coverage on Wikipedia Reading Quiz (Gradescope) due next Monday
2026-02-23	12	Test Suite Quality Exam Preparation	Study for Exam 1 Prepare 1-page reference sheet for exam Project 2 Checkpoint 1 due Friday, February 27 11:59 PM Eastern (GitHub) Checkpoint 2 due Wednesday, March 4 11:59 PM Eastern (GitHub) Final submission due Wednesday, March 11 11:59 PM Eastern (Gradescope) Readings: Code Coverage on Wikipedia Reading Quiz (Gradescope) due next Monday
2026-02-18	11	Unit Testing CPython Implementation	Project 2 Checkpoint 1 due Friday, February 27 11:59 PM Eastern (GitHub) Checkpoint 2 due Wednesday, March 4 11:59 PM Eastern (GitHub) Final submission due Wednesday, March 11 11:59 PM Eastern (Gradescope) Readings: Software Testing on Wikipedia Reading Quiz (Gradescope)
2026-02-16	10	Quality Assurance and Testing	Project 2 Checkpoint 1 due Friday, February 27 11:59 PM Eastern (GitHub) Checkpoint 2 due Wednesday, March 4 11:59 PM Eastern (GitHub) Final submission due Wednesday, March 11 11:59 PM Eastern (Gradescope) BONUS: Complete the remaining Learn Git Branching levels for bonus points (one point per level — row of challenges). You can earn up to four bonus points. Readings: Sections 2.0-2.5 of Software Engineering at Google by Henderson Reading Quiz (Gradescope)
2026-02-11	9	Remote Repositories Pull Requests Practice CS340-S26-Repo on Github	Project 1 due Wednesday, February 11 11:59 PM Eastern (Gradescope) Complete Level 1, Challenges 5-8 of the `Remote` tab (Push & Pull -- Git Remotes!) on Learn Git Branching There are four challenges to complete; a check mark will appear over each once you finish Upload a selfie showing your completed challenges to Gradescope Note that you can open the levels window by typing `levels` in the prompt Readings: "Distributed Git" up to "Private Small Team" and "Interactive Staging" from Pro Git by Chacon and Strub (Pages 126–131, 226-230) Reading Quiz (Gradescope)
2026-02-09	8	Commit Messages Remote Repositories	Project 1 due Wednesday, February 11 11:59 PM Eastern (Gradescope) Complete Level 1, Challenges 1-4 of the `Remote` tab (Push & Pull -- Git Remotes!) on Learn Git Branching There are four challenges to complete; a check mark will appear over each once you finish Upload a selfie showing your completed challenges to Gradescope Note that you can open the levels window by typing `levels` in the prompt Readings: "Git Branching" from Pro Git by Chacon and Strub (Pages 63–104) Reading Quiz (Gradescope)
2026-02-04	7	Git: Branching Commit Messages Branching Exercise	Project 1 due Wednesday, February 11 11:59 PM Eastern (Gradescope) Complete Level 2 (Ramping up) on Learn Git Branching There are four challenges to complete; a check mark will appear over each once you finish Upload a selfie showing your completed challenges to Gradescope Note that you can open the levels window by typing `levels` in the prompt Readings: "Git Basics" from Pro Git by Chacon and Strub (Pages 26–62) BONUS: Attend Q-Club on Thursday, February 6 at 12pm in Bloomer Auditorium and upload a selfie to Gradescope
2026-02-02	6	Version Control Systems Git	Project 1 due Wednesday, February 11 11:59 PM Eastern (Gradescope) Complete Level 1 (Introduction Sequence) on Learn Git Branching There are four challenges to complete; a check mark will appear over each once you finish Upload a selfie showing your completed challenges to Gradescope Note that you can open the levels window by typing `levels` in the prompt Readings: "Getting Started" from Pro Git by Chacon and Strub (Pages 8–25) Note that you should already have git installed on your personal machine and the GCP server Reading Quiz (Gradescope) Make sure you have a GitHub account and have signed up for the Student Developer Pack. Submit a screenshot on Gradescope showing you have done so.
2026-01-28	5	Shell scripting Gapminder Population Data Hate Crimes by County and Bias Type: Beginning 2010	Project 1 due Wednesday, February 11 11:59 PM Eastern (Gradescope) Readings: None Make sure you have a GitHub account and have signed up for the Student Developer Pack. Submit a screenshot on Gradescope showing you have done so.
2026-01-26	4	Command Line Utilities Conclusion Terminal Multiplexers Editors Shell scripting Gapminder Population Data Hate Crimes by County and Bias Type: Beginning 2010	Day 3 Exercises due by class Wednesday (Gradescope) Make sure your computer is set up with Visual Studio Code and the SSH plugin Readings: Tmux Cheat Sheet One out of every 20,000 Stack Overflow visitors is just trying to exit Vim by Quincy Larson (Medium) Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim by David Robinson
2026-01-21	3	Command-Line Utilities Random File System	Day 3 Exercises due by class Wednesday (Gradescope) Watch AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System through minute 10:50. Readings: None Do something fun this weekend!
2026-01-19	2	What is Software Engineering? Google Cloud Platform ( Console) Linux Command-Line Utilities	Readings: 11 Reasons To Learn Bash (A.K.A. Command Line) by Bruno Cunha on Dataquest Reading Quiz (Gradescope)
2026-01-14	1	First Class What is software engineering? Software Engineering Disasters	Install Git for Windows (or have a Linux distribution configured under WSL) if you plan to use a Windows system for class. Install Homebrew if you plan to use a Mac system for class. Redeem your Google Cloud Platform coupon by following the instructions posted in an announcement on Canvas. Submit a screenshot on Gradescope. If you do not have Google Gemini Pro, sign up for the free pro plan for students here. Submit a screenshot on Gradescope showing you have the pro plan. Readings: Chapter 1: What is Software Engineering in "Software Engineering at Google" by Winters, Manshreck, and Wright Reading Quiz (Gradescope)