ST: Week 1: Introduction

This week covers an introduction to the course.  This includes brief descriptions of the course and coursework and an introduction to the topic.  All slidesets will be accompanied by a video presentation.

• Reading: Read Young & Pezze (hereafter referred to as Y&P) Chapter 1.  Also please look at/skim ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-1-2022 (see the resource list with details of how to download this - you need to have a personal watermarked copy because of the conditions on making such copies available to others).
• Slides:
  • First Lecture (16 Sept 2025)
    • Course Structure:
      • Course Structure.pptx
      • Course Structure.pdf
    • Coursework overview:
      • Coursework.pptx
      • Coursework.pdf
    • Introduction:
      • PezzeYoung-Updated Ch1.pptx
      • PezzeYoung-Updated Ch1.pdf
    • IEEE 29119-1 Summary - this is a summary consisting of the main tables in the standard introduction.  I'll use this to structure a quick overview of the standard.
      • IEEE 29119-1 Overview.pptx
      • IEEE 29119-1 Overview.pdf
  • Second Lecture (18 Sept 2025): There is a specimen project that c an be used by those who hve no piece of software they want to develop.  This was developed by Nick Louloudakis who will present the speciment project in this lecture
  • The videos will appear Media Hopper Replay.
• Tutorial sheet for the LO1 tutorial in week commencing 29 September:
  • Tutorial LO1 docx
  • Tutorial LO1 pdf