Schedule

Week at a Glance¶

Week 11: October 27th - October 31st¶

construction Industry Speaker - Arun Krishna Vajjala - Applied Scientist - Apple

calendar_month Tue October 28th

CS Graduate Research Symposium

calendar_month Thu October 30th

Assignment 4

calendar_month Released Thursday, September 25th

calendar_month Due Monday, November 3rd, 11:59pm

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SDE Project - Checkpoint 2

calendar_month Released Tuesday, September 16th

calendar_month Due Monday, November 3rd, 11:59pm

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Course Schedule¶

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This schedule is subject to change throughout the course of the semester. Any changes will be announced on Ed Discussions.

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Course ScheduleCourse Reading List

Week	Date	Topic	Materials	Assignment Deadlines	Project Deadlines
Week 1	Tue Aug 19	Introduction	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo	Assignment 1 Git, Github, and Typescript Due Tuesday August 26th @ 11:59pm InfoInformation
Week 1	Thu Aug 21	Software Archeology and Anthropology	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 2	Tue Aug 26	Metrics and Measurement	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 2	Thu Aug 28th	No Class - UCF Season Opener Football Game
Week 3	Tue Sept 2	Project Planning & Agile Development	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo	Assignment 2 Hello Webapp! Due Friday Sept 12th @ 11:59pm InfoInformation
Week 3	Thu Sept 4	Software Teams & Communication	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 4	Tue Sept 9	Software Testing	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 4	Thu Sept 11	Software Testing Part II	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 5	Tue Sept 16th	Software Architecture	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo		SDE Project Checkpoint 1 Due Tuesday Sept 23rd @ 11:59pm InfoInformation
Week 5	Thu Sept 18th	Static & Dynamic Analysis	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo	Assignment 3 - Deployment Due Tuesday Sept 23rd @ 11:59pm InfoInformation
Week 6	Tue Sept 23rd	A Software Engineer's Guide to LLMs Pt I	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 6	Thu Sept 25th	A Software Engineer's Guide to LLMs Pt II	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo	Assignment 4 - Static Analysis & CI Due Monday Nov 3rd @ 11:59pm InfoInformation	SDE Project Checkpoint 2 Due Monday Nov 3rd @ 11:59pm InfoInformation
Week 7	Tue Sept 30	Software Engineering Ethics + Open Source	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 7	Thu Aug 28th	No Class - Dr. Moran Sick
Week 8	Tue Oct 7	Security + Midterm Exam Review	picture_as_pdf Slides picture_as_pdf Review Slides slideshowVideo
Week 8	Thu Oct 9	Midterm Exam
Week 9	Tue Oct 14	No Class - Dr. Moran Sick
Week 9	Thu Oct 16	How to Read and Present a Research Paper	picture_as_pdf Slides
Week 10	Tue Oct 21	How to Read and Present a Research Paper	picture_as_pdf Slides
Week 10	Thu Oct 23	school Academic Speaker - Kaushle Kafle - Assistant Professor - University of South Florida
Week 11	Tue Oct 28	construction Industry Speaker - Arun Krishna Vajjala - Applied Scientist - Apple
Week 11	Thu Oct 30	CS Graduate Research Symposium
Week 12	Tue Nov 4	Mobile Application Development	Huq-ICSE'25 Akinotcho-ICSE'25	Critical Research Paper Reviews Due Tues Nov 25th @ 11:59pm	Research Project Checkpoint 1 Due Friday Nov 14th @ 11:59pm
Week 12	Thu Nov 6	User Interface Engineering and Testing	Huang-ASE'25 Alian-ICSE'25
Week 13	Tue Nov 11	No Class - Veteran's Day
Week 13	Thu Nov 13	On the Trustworthiness of LLMs for Code	Khati-TOSEM'25 Yan-ICSE'25 Spiess-ICSE'25
Week 14	Tue Nov 18	Editing and Explaining LLMs for Code	Jiang-NeurIPS'25 Mamede-ASE'25 Chen-ICSE'25		Research Project Checkpoint 2 Due Friday Nov 28th @ 11:59pm
Week 14	Thu Nov 20	Exploring Automated Program Repair	Bouzenia-ICSE'25 Yuan-ICSE'25
Week 15	Tue Nov 25th	How Useful is LLM-Powered Software Engineering?	Tufano-ICSE'25 Lyu-ICSE'25
Week 15	Thu Nov 28th	No Class - Thanksgiving Break

Week 12 - November 4th - Mobile Application Development

Huq-ICSE'25: Syed Fatiul Huq, Mahan Tafreshipour, Kate Kalcevich, and Sam Malek. 2024. Automated Generation of Accessibility Reports from Recorded User Transcripts. In Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025) (Group 3 | Squirte Squad)
Akinotcho-ICSE'25: Faridah Akinotcho, Lili Wei, And Julia Rubin. 2025 Mobile Application Coverage: the 30% Curse and Ways Forward. 2025. In Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025) (Group 9 | FixFlix)

Week 12 - November 6th - User Interface Engineering & Testing

Huang-ASE'25: Kai Huang, Jian Zhang, Xiaofei Xie, and Chunyang Chen. 2025. Seeing is Fixing: Cross-Modal Reasoning with Multimodal LLMs for Visual Software Issue Fixing. In Proceedings of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025) (Group 15 | The Three Musketeers)
Alian-ICSE'25: Parsa Alian, Noor Nashid, Mobina Shahbandeh, Taha Shabani, and Ali Mesbah. 2025. Feature-Driven End-to-End Test Generation. In Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025) (Group 2 | CodeMonkeys)

Week 13 - November 14th - On the Trustworthiness of LLMs for Code

Khati-TOSEM'25: Dipin Khati, Yijin Liu, David Nader Palacio, Yixuan Zhang, and Denys Poshyvanyk. 2025. Mapping the Trust Terrain: LLMs in Software Engineering - Insights and Perspectives. Proc. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM 2025) (Group 11 | CodeFlix)
Yan-ICSE'25: Yanfu Yan, Viet Duong, Huajie Shao, and Denys Poshyvanyk. 2025. Towards More Trustworthy Deep Code Models by Enabling Out-of-Distribution Detection. In Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025) (Group 13 | Repotrio)
Spiess'ICSE'25: Claudio Spiess, David Gros, Kunal Suresh Pai, Michael Pradel, Md Rafiqul Islam Rabin, Amin Alipour, Susmit Jha, Prem Devanbu, Toufique Ahmed. Calibration and Correctness of Large Language Models for Code. In Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025) (Group 8 | Flexineers)

Week 14 - November 18th - Editing and Explaining LLMs for Code

Jiang-NeurIPS'24: Nan Jiang, Xiaopeng Li, Shiqi Wang, Qiang Zhou, Soneya Binta Hossain, Baishakhi Ray, Varun Kumar, Xiaofei Ma, and Anoop Deoras. 2024. LexDex: Training LLMs to Better Self-Debug and Explain Code. Proceedings of the 2025 Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NeurIPS 2024) (Group 4 | KinghtSecs)
Mamede-ASE'25: Claudia Mamede, Jose Campos, Claire Le Gous, Rui Abreu. 2025. Interpretable Vulnerability Detection Reports. In Proceedings of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025) (Group 6 | The Infinite Loopers)
Chen-ICSE'25: Junkai Chen, Zhiyuan Pan, Xing Hu, Zhenhao Li, Ge Li, and Xin Xia. 2025. Reasoning Runtime Behavior of a Program with LLM: How Far Are We? In Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025) (Group 10 | JDF)

Week 14 - November 20th - Exploring Automated Program Repair

Bouzenia-ICSE'25: Islem Bouzenia, Premkumar Devanbu, Michael Pradel. RepairAgent: An Autonomous, LLM-Based Agent for Program Repair. 2025. In Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025) (Group 12 | Refactor and Chill)
Yuan-ICSE'25: Mingyue Yuan, Jieshan Chen, Zhenchang Xing, Aaron Quigley, Yuyu Luo, Tianqi Luo, Gelareh Mohammadi, Qinghua Lu, and Liming Zhu. 2025. DesignRepair: Dual-Stream Design Guideline-Aware Frontend Repair with Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025) (Group 14 | The Goats)

Week 15 - November 25th - How Useful is LLM-Powered Software Engineering?

Tufano-ICSE'25: Rosalia Tufano, Alberto Martin-Lopez, Ahmed Tayeb, Ozren Dabic, Sonia Haiduc, and Gabriele Bavota. Deep Learning-based Code Reviews: A Paradigm Shift or a Double Edged Sword?. 2025. In Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025) (Group 1 | FitFlix)
Lyu-ICSE'25: Yunbo Lyu, Zhou Yang, Jieke Shi, Jianming Chang, Yue Liu, and David Lo. 2025. "My productivity is boosted but..." Demystifying User's Perceptions on AI Coding Assistants. In Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025) (Group 5 | Segfault and Pepper)