Software Development, WNE, Jackson

0. Overview

Course Name	Software Development
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.
Instructor Contact Info	Stoney Jackson - http://homepage.wne.edu/~hjackson
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
Offerings	In planning

3. 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

5. Moving Forward

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