Application Lifecycle Management

CS 453 zooms out from "how do I write code" to "how does a real engineering organization keep software alive over years, across teams, and through constant change", basically the Software Engineering at Google playbook, with guest speakers from industry walking through the ALM tools that hold it all together. You'll spend most of the term on a group project that touches the full pipeline (requirements, design, agile planning, source control, build, test, change management) plus homeworks and a couple of quizzes, ending in group presentations. It's the natural follow-up to CS 319's intro software engineering experience: where 319 teaches you to ship one project, this teaches you the processes, tooling, and tradeoffs that let hundreds of engineers ship the same product for a decade without it collapsing.