Project Advisor, 2016-2021 Course Info ====== This course is about implementing a software engineering project, using SE methodologies and principles taught in other courses, and using modern software technologies. The course functions as an SE-lab, where the students cope with a demanding SE task in a guided manner. The lab mimics a natural SE-development task, where usage of SE procedures is valuable and productive. It embodies the following features: * Adopt an agile development approach. * Maintenance challenges: Create a natural environment of successive changes due to complex evolution. * Enable a thoughtful non-naïve customer (course staff), that plan intentionally complex requirements. * Insist on product validation. * Enforce SE-systematic development, including models, validation, testing, requirements analysis and reliability. * Cope with technology challenges. * Structured teamwork. The goal of the lab is to acquire experience in using SE methodologies, methods and technologies. management, bug tracking, unit testing, and version control. The students in the course are organized in small student groups. All groups implement the software project which is the course theme. Within a group, the members take alternating roles as version leader, developer, and tester. The course staff takes the role of the customers, providing an initial requirement document. Each group has a staff member that functions as its advisor. The group meets its advisor once in two weeks, for a 2 hour long meeting. In that meeting the group presents its development for the current version, and one group member presents a topic that is relevant for the next version. 