Tarkvaratehnika 2025/26 sügis

Lectures

Lectures will be conducted online. The link to join the online lectures will be available in Moodle from September 2025.

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

The handouts and materials are partly from last year's lecture (2024). Notice: Updated slides, videos, and materials will be posted on Moodle.

• Lecture 1 (05-Sep-2025) - Introduction to Software Engineering
  • Course Organization
  • Overview of Software Engineering
  • Background / Motivation of Homework Assignment 1
• Lecture 2 (12-Sep-2025) - Requirements Engineering I
  • Additional Study Materials:
    • Lean requirements (by Atlasssian)
    • 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 (19-Sep-2025) - Requirements Engineering II
  • Additional Study Materials:
    • Balsamiq - A tool for developing wireframes (Mockups)
• Lecture 4 (26-Sep-2025) - 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 (3-Oct-2025) - 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 (10-Oct-2025) - Continuous Development & Integration - by Kristiina Rahkema
• Lecture 7 (17-Oct-2025) - Project Estimation / Architecture and Design I
• Lecture 8 (24-Oct-2025) - 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 (31-Oct-2025) - Verification and Validation (Testing) I - by Dietmar Pfahl
  • Additional Materials:
    • 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 (07-Nov-2025) - Verification and Validation (Testing) II - by Dietmar Pfahl
  • Additional Materials:
    • Link to TDD/BDD Tool Cucumber Tutorial: https://toolsqa.com/cucumber-tutorial
    • The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) - Top 10 Security Risks: https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/
• Lecture 11 (14-Nov-2025) - Refactoring (and TDD)
  • 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
  • List of Refactorings for Code Smells: (link)
• Lecture 12 (21-Nov-2025) - Agile/Lean Methods I
  • https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.htmlwithm Guide
  • Agile life-cycle models
  • 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 (28-Nov-2025): Guest Lecture by Luis Cruz (Assistant Professor at TU Delft), Topic Sustainable/Green Software Engineering
• Lecture 14 (05-Dec-2025): Course wrap-up, review and exam preparation (with training quiz)