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COMP241-07A: Software Engineering Development

What's New

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Test 2 will be held in class on Thursday 31st May. See notes for lecture 22 for an overview of what is covered by the test.

TEST 1 was held in class on Thursday 5th April. The tests are now marked and can be collected from the school office on ground floor G-block. Here are the RESULTS

NEW! Here are a few of my example test cases for assignment 1

IMPORTANT info relating to ANT and assignment 2. There appears to be a problem with the Sun Java installation in the labs and ANT (an exception gets thrown when running ant). You can fix this by using an alternative installation of Java. Type the following at the command line (or put into your .profile):

export PATH=/home/ml/jdk/jdk1.5.0_11/bin:$PATH

Lecturers

Timetable

Assignments

• Assignment 1: Unit testing (Was due Wednesday 28th March, 5pm). RESULTS
  • Task description
  • Javadocs for the ImageOrganizer library online
  • Archive containing the ImageOrganizer library and associated files NOTE: 23/3/2007 now contains new version of AbstractFixture (see below)
  • A new version of AbstractFixture.java Place this in the testcases directory and compile it (or grab the new downloadable archive). The original version had a constructor that prevented it from being subclassed - doh!!!
  • Some notes for assignment 1
  • Handy information from IBM on jar files (including how to make an executable jar file)
  • Here is a page describing the use of the unix tar command
• Assignment 2: OO Programming (Was due Friday 4th May, 5pm). RESULTS
  • Task description
• Assignment 3: GUI Programming with Swing (DUE Friday 8th June, 5pm).
  • Task description

Lecture Notes

Below are the slides that are presented in class. These are as accurate as possible at the time of publishing.

• Lecture 1: Introduction
  • Course outline [HTML]
• Lecture 2: Introduction to Java
• Lecture 3: Comparing Java and C#
  • Nice overview comparison of Java & C#
  • More in depth but slightly out of date comparison of Java & C#
• Lecture 4: Testing & JUnit
• Lecture 5: Designing Classes 1
• Lecture 6: Designing Classes 2
• Lecture 7: Inheritance and Polymorphism
• Lecture 8: More on Polymorphism
• Lecture 9: Container Classes 1
  • Source code: CompType.java, CompTypeComparator.java, ComparatorTest.java, Reverse.java, AlphabeticSearch.java
  • Design patterns: Strategy
• Lecture 10: Java I/O (binary I/O) 1
  • Source code:
    Encryptor.java
    Crypt.java (a command line driver for Encryptor (type "java Crypt" to get the usage. The "-d" flag tells the program to decrypt rather than encrypt).
  • Design patterns: Decorator
• Lecture 11: Container classes 2
  • Source code: Statistics.java
  • Design patterns: Adapter
• Lecture 12: Tools 1 - Packages, Jar and Ant
• Lecture 13: GUIs & Event Handling
  • Source code: SimpleGui1.java, SimpleGui3C.java, MyDrawPanel.java
• Lecture 14: GUIs & Event Handling 2
  • Source code: TwoButtons.java, TextInputExample.java
• Lecture 15: GUIs & Event Handling 3
  • Source code: RectanglePanel.java, RectangleController.java RectangleApplication.java RectangleController2.java RectangleApplication2.java
  • Design patterns: Composite, Model-view-controller, Observer
• Lecture 16: Swing Widgets and Tools 2 (CVS)
  • Source code: TextAreaExample.java
• Lecture 17: Usability and Tools 3 (Javadoc)
• Lecture 18: Java I/O (text I/O) 2
• Source code: ScannerTest.java, LZ77T.java
• Lecture 19: Networking and Threads
• Source code: DailyAdviceClient.java, DailyAdviceServer.java
• Lecture 20: Networking and Threads 2
• Source code: MyRunnable.java, RyanAndMonicaJob.java
• Lecture 21: Distributed Computing
• Lecture 22: Distributed Computing 2 (plus overview of Test 2)

Resources

Java Installation

• Java 1.6 and Java 1.5 are installed for the assignments on the Linux Machines in our labs Lab 6-7 (R-block).
• To configure your environment, type the following commands:

  java-setup

  javac-setup

  and follow the directions for each.
• Alternatively, you can download a Java system to run on your home computer from SUN's Java Download Site.

Java Online Resources

• SUN's Java Site
• Java Tutorial (same at java.sun.com)
• Java Development Kit Documentation JDK 1.5.0 (same at java.sun.com)
• JavaTM Platform 1.5.0 API Specification (same at java.sun.com)
• Java Programming Style Guidelines, by Geotechnical Software Services
• JAR tutorial (same at java.sun.com)
• Javadoc Documentation
• ANT Homepage
• Sun's tutorial "trail" on Swing programming

Java Books

• Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates. Head First Java. O'Really, 2003.
• Bruce Eckel. Thinking in Java, Prentice-Hall, 2002. [Online]
• Cay S. Horstmann. Computing Concepts with Java Essentials. 3rd Edition, Wiley, 2002. [Homepage]
• Roger Duke, Eric Salzmann. Java Genesis, Addison-Wesley SprintPrint, 2000.
• Timothy Budd. Understanding object-oriented programming with Java, Updated Edition. Addison-Wesley Longman, 1999.

JUnit

• The JUnit home page has a lot of links to articles on test-driven development, read for instance JUnit Test Infected: Programmers Love Writing Tests.
• A wiki on Test First Design
• JUnit best practises
• JUnit 3.8 API

Concurrent Versions System (CVS)

• Karl Fogel and Moshe Bar. Open Source Development with CVS. 3rd Edition. [Online]
• The CVS web site provides an introductory tutorial that outlines basic CVS commands and there use.
• CVS manual.

Mark Hall, Department of Computer Science, The University of Waikato; Last modified: 21 June 2006