INF2-SEPP: Weekly reading

Recommended:

• The Standish Group International, Inc: Standish CHAOS Report 2015
• The Standish Group International, Inc: ENDLESS MODERNIZATION: How Infinite Flow Keeps Software Fresh

Essential:

• On software engineering activities: Sommerville SE* Chapter 2 section 2.2.
• On software projects and software products and their engineering: Sommerville ESP* Chapter 1 up to 1.1.
• On software development processes (overview): Sommerville SE Chapter 2 until 2.2
• On intro to agile software development processes (and comparison with plan-driven): Sommerville ESP Chapter 2 up to 2.2.
• An excellent overview of processes by Ian Sommerville

Recommended:               

• Stevens Chapter 1
• The Agile Manifesto

• Professional issues in information technology by Frank Bott  
  • Preface,
  • Chapter 1: Law and Government,
  • Chapter 2: The Computing Profession 

Recommended:

• A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston -  Chapter 1: Short Arguments: Some General Rules
• ACM Code of Ethics -  Principles 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

Essential:

• SWEBOK V4, Chapter 1, Software Requirements.
• Sommerville SE*, Part 1 chapter on Requirements Engineering.
• Browse for definitions of different non-functional requirements. You may want to start from Wikipedia.

Essential:

• Sommerville SE*. Use Cases discussed are both in Requirements and System Modeling chapters. Look up Use Cases in index to find the relevant sections.
• Stevens, Chapter 7.

Essential:

• On RE in agile vs. plan-driven: Sommerville SE* Chapter 3 up until 3.1
• On scaling up agile (i.e. using it for large systems): Sommerville SE* Chapter 3 Section 3.4 until 3.4.3
• On RE in software product engineering: Sommerville ESP* Chapter 3

Recommended:

• The rest of Sommerville SE* Chapter 3 Section 3.

 Essential:

• Professional issues in information technology by Frank Bott
  • Chapter 3: What is an Organisation?,
  • Chapter 4: Structure and Management

Recommended:

• A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston, Chapter 5: Arguments about Causes
• ACM Code of Ethics, Principles 2.4 - 2.7

1) For Part 1:

Essential: Stevens Chapter 1 section 1.3

Recommended: return to any mentions of cohesion, coupling, abstraction, encapsulation, separation of interface and implementation, decomposition from your Inf1B course.

Suggested: SWEBOK V4 Ch3 for an overview of the field of software design

2) For Part 2: All from Stevens:

Recommended: Ch 2: Object concepts

Essential:

• Ch 3: Introductory case study 3, until section 3.5
• Ch 5: Essentials of class models, until section 5.6
• Ch 6: More on class models sections 6.1.2, 6.1.3, 6.2, 6.6

Essential:

• Stevens Ch 9: Essentials of sequence diagrams
• Stevens Ch 10: section 10.1, for conditional and iterative behaviour

Recommended:    
At least one of:

• The original paper on CRC cards, a technique for designing interactions: A laboratory for teaching object oriented thinking, by Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham.
• Stevens Chapter 5 section 5.6 on CRC cards 

Recommended:   
Read about design patterns in general, e.g.

• Stevens: Ch18.2
• Sommerville: Look up design patterns in index
• The Wikipedia entry on design patterns

Essential:    
Read more on this lecture's design patterns until they are completely clear:

• On the MVC architectural pattern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvZtjoRq1I
• On the Observer pattern: https://sourcemaking.com/design_patterns/observer ,     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_pattern

Read more on this lecture's design patterns until they are completely clear:

• If you can get a copy of Gamma, E., 1995. Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software.

  Pearson Education India: p. 326-337 "Observer", p. 144-146 ”Singleton”

• On the Singleton pattern: https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns/singleton , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_pattern
• If you can get a copy of Gamma, E., 1995. Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software. Pearson Education India: p. 263-268 "Command"
• On the Command pattern: https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns/command, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qA5kw8dcSU

Read on design in different software development processes:

• ’Big Design Up Front Versus Emergent Design’, Anthony Langsworth: https://randomactsofarchitecture.com/2013/07/08/big-design-up-front-versus-emergent-design/
• First part (until separating line) of c2 wiki ’Do the Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work’: http://wiki.c2.com/?DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork
• c2 wiki ’You Arent Gonna Need It’ until ’humor’ http://wiki.c2.com/?YouArentGonnaNeedIt
• ’Is design dead?’ by Martin Fowler, until ’Patterns and XP’: https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/designDead.html

Recommended:

• Simon Brown on 'Just Enough' Up Front Design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtVI7PvgVsQ
• ’Adaptable Design Up Front’, Hayim Makabee: https: //effectivesoftwaredesign.com/adaptable-design-up-front/

ProP - Essential:

Professional issues in information technology by Frank Bott, Chapter 11: Intellectual Property Rights, Chapter 12: Software Contracts and Licences
A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston, Chapter 3: Arguments by Analogy 

Essential: 

Search on Google and read/watch some introductory Javadoc tutorials. For a complete reference of the notation, see https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/javadoc-tool.html, and for using JavaDoc in IntelliJ see https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/javadocs.html.

Recommended:

• Code Complete 2nd Ed. Steve McConnell (one electronic copy available under Resource List).
• Something that makes you confident you understand Java packages (e.g., https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/package/packages.html and sublinks from Oracle).

• For revision on Java, see https://opencourse.inf.ed.ac.uk/inf2-sepp/other-resources/java-programming.

On version control:

Essential: 

• Ch 1- Version Control Basics section of the SVN book (search for 'Version Control Basics' in table of contents):  https://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn-book.pdf
• The Git & GitHubTutorial by Christos Vasiladiotis provided here.
• This article written by a former SEPP student: https://jadens.medium.com/a-beginners-guide-to-git-and-version-control-software-9f22da5dd4c7

On build tools:

• Essential: An introduction to build tools: https://medium.com/xebia-engineering/a-general-introduction-to-build-tools-9070a47ed405
• Recommended: Gradle tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrVURuzcFhY&t=15s,
• Recommended: Gradle Building Java Applications Sample https://docs.gradle.org/current/samples/sample_building_java_applications.html

• Recommended: Maven tutorial https://maven.apache.org/users/index.html

   

Essential:

• Browse Fowler's page at http://refactoring.com/. Some of his book Refactoring is available on Google Books e.g., details of some of the refactorings in the catalogue.
• Search code smells. One catalogue can be found at https://refactoring.guru/refactoring/smells
   

Recommended:

• Browse through the Code Refactoring page and subpages of IntelliJ IDEA for full information on IntelliJ's current capabilities: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/refactoring-source-code.html
• If you are using Eclipse: Browse through the Eclipse Java development user guide for full information on Eclipse's current capabilities: https://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/eclipse_documentation/eclipse_java_development_guide/topic/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/concepts/eclipse_java_concept-refactoring.htm

Essential:

• SWEBOK V4 Ch 5, on Software Testing

• Sommerville SE Ch 8

   

Recommended: Stevens Ch 19

Essential:

• Prepare to be able to write tests in JUnit 5:
  • http://www.junit.org
  • JUnit Tutorial http://www.vogella.com/articles/JUnit/article.html
  • JUnit 5 Tutorial: Writing Assertions With JUnit 5 Assertion API https://www.petrikainulainen.net/programming/testing/junit-5-tutorial-writing-assertions-with-junit-5-api/
  • Writing tests in JUnit 5: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/09/writing-tests-with-junit-5/
  • Testing in IntelliJ IDEA and sublinks: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/tests-in-ide.html
• On inline assertions in Java (focus on the Preconditions, Postconditions, and Class Invariants): https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/language/assert.html
• On statement and branch coverage: https://www.guru99.com/code-coverage.html

Recommended:

• On unit testing and coverage in IntelliJ IDEA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDFI19lj4OM
• JIRA bug tracking: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/bug-tracking
• SpotBugs: https://spotbugs.github.io/
• Infer: https://fbinfer.com/

For part 1: 

Essential:

• This article by Martin Fowler: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/CodeAsDocumentation.html
• Sommervile ESP Chapter 10 apart from 10.1.1

Recommended if you can get a copy of the book: Lisa Crispin: "Agile Testing: A Practical Guide For Testers And Agile Teams" Chapter 1.

For part 2:

Essential:

• Sommerville SE Chapter 2 only introduction and section 2.1

Recommended: Browse the web to learn more about the: 

• Waterfall Model

• Spiral Model ((e.g. browse its phases and invariants from
  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/59, 

  https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/documents/5439/2000_003_001_13655.pdf)

On XP:

Essential : Browse through this useful tutorial on Extreme Programming: http://www.extremeprogramming.org/
Recommended : Sommerville ESP Chapter 2 Section 2.2

On Scrum:

Essential : The Scrum Guide: download from https://scrumguides.org/index.html
Recommended : Sommerville ESP Chapter 2 Section 2.3

On Kanban:

Essential: This YouTube video and related videos are a great introduction to Kanban: https://youtu.be/iVaFVa7HYj4
Essential: The Kanban Guide: download from https://kanbanguides.org/
Essential: "Revisiting the Principles and General Practices of the Kanban Method" by David J Anderson: https://djaa.com/revisiting-the-principles-and-general-practices-of-the-kanban-method/
Recommended: Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams: download from https://www.scrum.org/resources/kanban-guide-scrum-teams
Recommended: This YouTube JIRA tutorial for Kanban boards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT9wIFztYeA
Recommended: This YouTube Trello tutorial for Kanban boards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_73PkR3XlI

Essential: 

• Sommerville SE Chapter 29 on Interaction Design (available at https://software-engineering-book.com/downloads/)
• Article on UK law about website accessibility from the Scottish Government: https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/helping-people-to-use-yourservice/making-your-service-accessible-an-introduction

Recommended:

• Most popular articles at https://www.nngroup.com/articles/
• The W3C Accessibility guidelines: https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/

• Usability Body of Knowledge on usability evaluation methods: https://www.usabilitybok.org/usability-evaluation-methods

Essential:

• Sommerville ESP Chapter 7 on Security and Privacy
• Sommerville SE Chapter 13 on Security Engineering introduction and sections 13.1 and 13.4

Recommended: the rest of the Sommerville SE Chapter 13 on Security Engineering