Tarkvaratehnika 2024/25 sügis

Lectures

Lectures will be conducted online. The link to join the online lectures will be available in Moodle from September 2024.

• Lectures: Fridays 10:15-12:00, Online (via Moodle)

The handouts and materials are partly from last year's lecture (2023). Notice: Updated slides, videos, and materials will be posted on Moodle.

• Lecture 1 (06-Sep-2024) - Introduction to Software Engineering
  • Course Organization
  • Overview of Software Engineering
  • Background / Motivation of Homework Assignment 1
• Lecture 2 (13-Sep-2024) - Requirements Engineering I
  • Additional Study Materials:
    • Lean requirements (by Atlasssian)
    • INVEST in good Stories, and SMART Tasks (by Bill Wake)
    • Hints on how to write testable requirements
  • A series of You Tube videos by Lars Bilde explaining the steps from first interviews with stakeholders to user stories, tasks, and sprint planning (note: these videos promote the use of the commercial tool ScrumWise - any other backlog management and sprint planning tool may be used instead):
    • Initial user stories extracted from interview
    • First backlog items (user stories)
    • Finding more User Stories from existing User Stories (e.g., by splitting up)
    • Splitting User Stories into Tasks?
    • General remarks about the right level of backlog planning detail
    • Planning the first (or next) sprint
    • Time tracking with the Task Board
    • Sprint Burndown Chart
• Lecture 3 (20-Sep-2024) - Requirements Engineering II
  • Additional Study Materials:
    • Balsamiq - A tool for developing wireframes (Mockups)
• Lecture 4 (27-Sep-2024) - Analysis
  • Additional Study Materials:
    • Old but still very informative summary on how to come up with a domain model: http://csis.pace.edu/~marchese/CS616/Lec5/se_l5a.htm
    • UML notation: (wikipedia-link)
    • Domain modelling rules - with examples: (link)
    • Agile domain modelling - with example: (link)
    • Seven information 'smells' of domain modelling - with example: (link)
• Lecture 5 (4-Oct-2024) - Development Infrastructure - Development/Build/Collaboration Tools
  • Topics:
    • Basics of IDE (focus on IntelliJ IDEA) -- short recap
    • Build scripts (focus on Gradle) -- short recap
    • Version control (focus on Git)
    • Build scripts (focus on Gradle)
    • Issue tracker (focus on Bitbucket)
    • Communication tools (focus on Bitbucket wiki)
  • Links to descriptions/tutorials on how branching works in Git and what types of workflows are useful:
    • Git branching
    • Git branching from Bitbucket
    • Atlassian Git Tutorial - Branches
    • Atlassian Git Tutorial - Comparing Workflows
    • Pull request tutorial
    • Git versus Mercurial (Mercurial Tutorial)
• Lecture 6 (11-Oct-2024) - Continuous Development & Integration - by Kristiina Rahkema
• Lecture 7 (18-Oct-2024) - Project Estimation / Architecture and Design I
• Lecture 8 (25-Oct-2024) - Architecture and Design II
  • Additional Materials:
    • Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Robson : Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide (2nd Edition) , 2021
    • Alexander Shvets: Dive Into Design Patterns , 2018
    • In the Object-Oriented Programming course you probably learned already about object-oriented design principles. Here is a summary: OO design principles revisited (apologies for the spamming with advertisements)
    • Two videos on the architectural pattern MVC:
      • Mini-tutorial (with code example) of MVC pattern by Derek Banas: (link) (13 min)
      • JavaFX Software Tutorial: Calculator (MVC): (link) (30 min)
    • Here is a link to a series of mini-tutorials (~15 min each) by Derek Banas about design patterns: (link)
    • Code examples:
      • Code example of a simple MVC implementation in Java: MVC example
      • Code example of Publisher/Subcriber pattern without Observer Pattern, with Observer Pattern, and with PropertyChangeListener (relevant since Java9): Publisher-Subscriber (Observer Pattern) example
      • Examples of Java implementations of design patterns: (link)
    • Attribute-Driven Design method by SEI: ADD and ADD Example
    • Software Architecture QuickGuide: Link to Guide
• Lecture 9 (1-Nov-2024) - Verification and Validation (Testing) I - by Dietmar Pfahl
  • Additional Materials:
    • JUnit4 tutorials with IntelliJ IDEA by Brian Fraser:
      • JUnit4 Tutorial 1 -- Basics
      • JUnit4 Tutorial 2 -- Testing Exceptions, Code Coverage, Test Fixtures
    • JUnit5 User Guide
    • Free Coursera Tutorial on Java Unit Testing using JUnit5: https://www.coursera.org/learn/unit-testing-in-java/ungradedLti/BDxG6/unit-testing-in-java
• Lecture 10 (08-Nov-2024) - Verification and Validation (Testing) II - by Dietmar Pfahl
  • Additional Materials:
    • Link to book on TDD and ATDD (=BDD): (TDD book) -- Note: you have to create an account to be able to read all chapters (it's free of charge)
    • Link to an explanation of TDD
    • Link to BDD Tool Cucumber Tutorial: (Cucumber)
    • The Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Risks: PDF
• Lecture 11 (15-Nov-2024) - Refactoring (and TDD)
  • Additional Materials:
  • List of Refactorings for Code Smells: (link)
• Lecture 12 (22-Nov-2024) - Agile/Lean Methods I
  • Scrum Guide
  • Agile life-cycle models
  • Link to PivotalTracker for backlog management: https://www.pivotaltracker.com
  • Blog entry on '7 Wastes' of Agile Software Development: (link)
  • Interesting videos about the agile/lean software development approach at Spotify (13 min each):
    • Spotify Software Engineering Culture (Part 1)
    • Spotify Software Engineering Culture (Part 2)
• Lecture 13 (29-Nov-2024): Course wrap-up, review and exam preparation (with training quiz)
• Week 14-15 (No lecture): Student competition (optional), More details on Moodle.