Course Resources -- Fall Semester 2009

References

• reports of the NATO Software Engineering Conferences
• local mirror of the 1968 report

Development Process

• So you've just been given your first programming assignment, now what?

Agile Software Development

• the idea
  • No Functional Spec, from 37signals
  • The New Methodology
• pair programming
  • For Writing Software, a Buddy System, at the web dev company Hashrocket
  • 10 Reasons Pair Programming Is Not For the Masses, from the co-founder of Hashrocket

Analysis

• structured analysis at wikipedia
• data flow diagrams
  • at wikipedia
  • at the Structured Analysis wiki
  • at Agile Modeling
  • at SmartDraw
  • at GetAhead
• use cases
  • at wikipedia
  • and functional requirements
  • use case diagrams at wikipedia
  • use case diagrams at Agile Modeling
• writing a functional spec
  • what is a spec?
  • why write a spec?

Design

• software architecture
  • An Introduction to Software Architecture [ local mirror ]
  • overview of software architecture at the Software Engineering Institute
  • Handbook of Software Architecture


• UML
  • gentle tutorial -- for people new to UML
  • summary tutorial -- concise description of elements


• design patterns
  • Celebrate 15 Years of Design Patterns -- background material, and free sample chapters of several design patterns books

Implementation

• version control
  • Source Control HOWTO
  • Feature Branch
• Subversion
  • Version Control with Subversion, "The SVN book""
  • articles on Subversion
  • StatsSVN, a tool that mines SVN commit logs and generates graphs about system development

Testing

• Using Markov chains to generate random test input