Dr Vladimir Sazonov: Teaching at Computer Science Department of the University of Liverpool

COMP320: Software Development Tools

Students having questions on COMP320 can approach me immediately after lecture or visit my Office 1.13 at any Tuesday 14:00-16:00 or any other day and time, if I am not busy. You are welcome!

Timetable

Syllabus

Course Textbooks

Labs

Lecture Materials 2010

Below you can find lecture transparencies (in PowerPoint) which you can download and print.

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Week 1, Lect. 1-3

1. Introduction to the module (10 slides)

2. eXtreme Programming Methodology (21 slides)

3. Automated Testing and Continuous Integration (22 slides)

4. Introducing Ant (20 slides)

Week 2, Lect. 4-6

5. Ant and XML: Getting Started (20 slides)

6. Ant: Structured Build (45 slides)

Week 3-4, Lect. 7-12

7. Ant: Datatypes and Properties (41 slides)

8. Ant: Datatypes and Properties (71 slides) ADD CORRECTIONS: Slides 45-47, 58 are optional, for self-study.

Week 5-7, Lect. 13-21

9. Ant, Testing and JUnit (1) (31 slides)

10. Ant, Testing and JUnit (2) (34 slides)

11. Ant, Testing and JUnit - Capturing test results (32 slides)

Week 8-10, Lect. 22-30

12. Eclipse and Java (46 slides)

13. Eclipse and JUnit: Creating and running a JUnit test case (42 slides)

14. Eclipse and Ant. (49 slides)

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Additional Materials to the Module:

You can download here zip file containing the directory ch04 all the necessary subdirectories and files. This will give you the possibility to finish your lab work in time or continue to work yourself later.

Please unzip this file into your H:\Antbook directory.

Here you will also find MYBUILD-08.xml needed for [9-11] above and for the labs. When working in the lab, please amend this file as required (comment/uncomment some fragments, etc.).

Some useful links:

Paper by Fowler and Foemmel on Continuous Itegration in http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html

Annotated XML Specification (Bray 1998) in http://www.xml.com/axml/axml.html

or a simple tutorial on XML, etc. in http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

For the book "Java Development with Ant" by Erik Hatcher and Steve Loughran see http://www.manning.com/hatcher/

Ant task reference from this book (Appendix E) is also available via http://www.manning.com/hatcher/,

as well as Chapter 4 on Testing with JUnit http://www.manning.com/hatcher/

See also Apache Ant 1.7.1 Manual in C:\JAVA\ANT\docs\manual\index.html in your computers in University labs.

or the same: http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html

For a list of system properties see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#getProperties()

Using JAR Files: The Basics: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/deployment/jar/basicsindex.html

Viewing the Contents of a JAR File: http://java.sun.com/developer/Books/javaprogramming/JAR/basics/view.html

JUnit Web site: http://www.junit.org/home