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(Group Projects coordinated by Sophia Drossopoulou)

Class on 15 October 2010:

• Introduction to Course
• Team Building Exercise for Tutorial, How a Survival Instructor solved it
• Burt Doesn't Manage - how not to be a team leader

Class on 22 October 2010:

• Agile Development & Requirements Capture
• Report One, due at noon on 28 October 2010
• Report One worksheet for Tutorial
• David Parnas' article A Rational Design Process: How and Why to Fake It

Ancillary material:

• Dilbert on extreme and agile programming
• Scrum: Mountain Goat Software on Scrum, eWeek article on Microsoft using Scrum
• David Parnas' article A Rational Design Process: How and Why to Fake It
• XP: Home of XP, Martin Fowler on Continuous Integration, some refactoring patterns
• UP: Wikipedia's entry on RUP and the Enterprise Unified Process
• An article comparing XP with Microsoft-style iterative development

Class on 29 October 2010:

• Software Testing
• Task for this week's tutorial slot: Managing Collaboration on your Group Project
  • Establish that your version control tool is working for all group members and on all needed machines and platforms.
  • Do a sanity check that adds/commits source code to your repository, and that checks out/updates your local or remote working directory.
  • Think about what top-level structure of your data folders would best support collaboration, e.g.

    management
    testing
    codebase
    

  • Do you want to use shell scripts that do routine 'svn' processing at the beginning and end of each work session?
  • Do you want to do additional backups? E.g. a weekly backup onto a memory stick that is off-site?
  • Do you plan to set up a project Wiki or use a requirements or knowledge management tool?

Ancillary material:

• JUnit, unit testing for Java; NUnit, unit testing for C# and .NET
• James Bach's lecture on Becoming a Software Testing Expert
• Subversion at Tigris.org, at Wikipedia, and in an online book

Class on 5 November 2010:

• Team Work, Ethical Impact, Environmental Impact of IT Systems

Ancillary material:

• Case studies of socio-technical and ethical issues in IT systems
• Wiki's Green computing entry
• Energy Star is a leading standardization agency for green processes, your computing device may have its ceritifaction logo on it

Class on 12 November 2010:

• Testing: Part 2
• Oral feedback on your Report One will be given in the Tutorial Slot in H344.

Ancillary material:

• SQLite Testing Effort
• GCC Testing Effort
• Test-Driven Design
• A set of unit testing rules
• An interesting dissenting view on unit testing (courtesy of David Murray)

NO Class on 19 November 2010:

• Instead, you are asked to attend the seminar Online grocery delivery - come on, how hard can that be! on Thursday, 18 November, at noon in H308
• Tutorial Slot: please use that to meet with your project group in H344

NO Class on 26 November 2010:

• Instead you should attend Sunny Bains' lecture on Technical Writing (slides in PDF) on Tuesday, 23 November at noon in Huxley 344, note the change of room

NO Class on 3 December 2010:

• Instead you should attend Sunny Bains' lecture on Technical Speaking on Tuesday, 7 December 2010 at noon in Huxley 344, note the change of date

Reports Clinic on 10 December 2010:

• I will give Feedback on Report Two and Advice on Report Three
  • from 3-3:50pm in Huxley 308 and
  • from 4-4:50pm in Huxley 344