Software Development, WNE, Jackson

Course	Software Development
Institution	Western New England University
Instructor(s)	Stoney Jackson - http://homepage.wne.edu/~hjackson
Term	In planning
Course Overview	Participants will learn modern tools and practices to design and develop large systems in teams such as integrated development environments, build systems, testing, version control, and issue tracking.
Course Length	{{{courselength}}}
Student Characteristics	10-30 students. Computer science majors. Students have had data structures.
Prerequisites	Fundamentals of programming (imperative, procedural, and object-oriented constructs). Some additional experience writing programs beyond first programming class (e.g., a data structures course).
Infrastructure	A computer for each student, Internet access, presentation equipment

Course Outline

Topics:

• Pair Programming
• Version Control
  • Workflows
  • Release management
• Testing
  • Static Testing (e.g., code reviews)
  • Dynamic Testing
    • "xUnit" frameworks
    • Unit/Integration/Functional Testing
    • Test-driven development
  • Continuous integration/testing/deployment
• Build Systems (e.g., make, ant, maven)
• Program Organization
• Communication and Coordination Tools
  • IRC
  • Blogs
  • Issue Tracker
  • Road map
  • Mailing Lists
• Licensing

Moving Forward

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