GS04 - 4024: Tools and Environments 2007/2008

This page contains references to course materials, hand-outs of slides that I am going to use during lectures, lab worksheets and model solutions for the tools and environments lab (GS04/4024).

Both lectures and lab sessions will be held in room MPEB 1.21

Lecture Notes

Date	Time	Type	Topic	Materials
07-Jan	11-12	Lecture	Introduction	Handouts
07-Jan	11-12	Lecture	Principles of IDEs	Handouts
07-Jan	12-13	Lecture	Program Editors	Handouts
10-Jan	10-11	Lab	Program Editors	Worksheet
10-Jan	11-12	Lecture	The Eclipse Platform	Handouts
10-Jan	12-13	Lecture	Context-free Grammars	Handouts
11-Jan	10-11	Lecture	Developing Eclipse Plug-ins	Handouts
14-Jan	11-12	Lecture	Object and Model Management in IDEs	Handouts
14-Jan	12-13	Lab	Using the Java DOM in Eclipse JDT	Worksheet Sample Plug-in Test Data Model Solution
17-Jan	10-11	Lecture	Static Analyzers	Handouts
17-Jan	11-12	Lecture	Software Configuration Management Tools	Handouts
17-Jan	12-13	Lecture	Debuggers	Handouts
18-Jan	10-11	Lab	Using the Java DOM in Eclipse JDT	cont'd
21-Jan	11-13	Lecture	Building a static Analyzer	Worksheet Test Data Model Solution
24-Jan	10-11	Lab	Finding defects with a debugger	Worksheet
24-Jan	11-12	Lab	Using Subversion	Worksheet
24-Jan	12-13	Lecture	Build Management	Handouts
25-Jan	10-11	Lab	Build Management with ant	Worksheet
28-Jan	11-12	Lecture	Unit Testing tools	Handouts
28-Jan	12-13	Lab	JUnit and Emma coverage analysis	Worksheet
31-Jan	10-11	Lab	Testing Web applications with httpunit	Worksheet
31-Jan	11-12	Lab	Mocking Objects with jMock	Worksheet
31-Jan	12-13	Lecture	Acceptance Testing Tools	Handouts
01-Feb	10-11	Lab	FIT and Fitnesse	Worksheet
04-Feb	11-12	Lecture	Tools for testing software architectures	Handouts
04-Feb	11-12	Lab	Performance testing web apps with JMeter	Worksheet
07-Feb	10-13		Lecturer unavailable - Personal revision
08-Feb	10-11	Lecture	Guest Lecture: the JetPac IDE of UBS	Handouts

Reading List

M. Nagl (ed): Building Tightly integrated development environments. LNCS 1170. Springer Verlag. pp 32-44. 1996
Reference Model for Frameworks of Software Engineering Environments. Edition 3 of ECMA TR/55.
E. Gamma and K. Beck. Contributing to Eclipse. Pearson. 2004 pp.1-7.
D. Carlson. Eclipse Distilled. Pearson. 2005
S. Dart et al. Software Development Environments. IEEE Computer 20(11):18-28. 1987
N. Habermann and D. Notkin. Gandalf: Software Developement Environments. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. SE-12(12):1117-1127. 1986
D. Knuth. Literate Programming. The Computer Journal 27(2):97-111. 1984
E. Clayberg and D. Rubel. Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins. Pearson. 2006
IBM Corp. Eclipse Platform Technical Overview. 2006
M. Pawlowski et al: Fundamentals of Eclipse Plug-in and RCP Development. EclipseCon 2007.
A. Aho, R. Sethi and J. Ullman: Compilers. Addison Wesley. 1977
M. Nagl (ed): Building Tightly integrated development environments. LNCS 1170. Springer Verlag. pp 32-44. 1996
V. Apparao et al. Document Object Model. W3C Recommendation. 1998
D. Knuth. Semantics of context-free languages. Theory of Computer Systems 2(2):127-145. 1968.
K. Slonneger and B. Kurtz. Formal syntax and semantics of programming languages. Addison Wesley. 1995.
U. Kastens. Ordered Attributed Grammars. Acta Informatica 13:229-256. 1980.
E. Gamma et al. Design Patterns. Addison Wesley. 1995
J. Estublier et al.: Impact of software engineering research on the practice of software configuration management. ACM ToSEM 14(4):383-430.2005.
R. Conradi and B. Westfechtel. Version Models for Software Configuration Management. ACM Computing Surveys 30(2):232-282. 1998.
B. Collins-Sussman et al. Version control with subversion. O'Reilly Media. 2002.
S. Feldman. Make - a program for maintaining computer programs. Software Practice & Experience 9(4):255-265. 1979
J. Tilly and E. Burke. Ant: The definitive guide. O'Reilly Media. 2002
M. Fowler. Continuous Integration. Thoughtworks. 2006.
B. Boehm: Software Engineering Economics. Prentice Hall. 1981
K. Beck. JUnit Pocket Guide. O'Reilly, 2004. ISBN 0-596-00743-4.
A. Watson and T. McCabe: Structured Testing: A Testing Methodology Using the Cyclomatic Complexity Metric. NIST Special Publication 500-235.
S. Freeman et al.: Mock Roles, not Objects. Proc. OOPSLA 2004.
Emma
EclEmma

Jmeter
Eclipse Test and Performance Tool Platform

Coursework

I have set the following Coursework. Hand-in deadline is Monday 18th February 2008 at noon.

Mock Examination Paper

I have provided a mock exam paper and we have discussed the model solutions in the revision lecture.

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