Resources

• This is now a subset of John Bell's Resources for Students, customized for CS 442 Spring 2019. Last updated Spring 2019, originated 2017.
• ( The top part of this page is in the process of compiling results from surveys conducted by the Spring 2017 class on available Software Engineering tools, and topics of interest for possible further study. This part of the page is currently under development, and may change rapidly. )

Table of Contents

• Required Reading
• Extreme Programming
• Requested Topics
• Unsorted Survey Results
• Agile/XP Planners / Groupware
• Code Repositories / Version Control
• Test Driven Development
• AntiPatterns - Patterns of common pitfalls to avoid
• Testing Frameworks / Test Automation
• Test Case Generation Tools
• Requirements Analysis
• Design Strategies
• Reverse Engineering Tools
• Build Tools / Code Generation Tools
• Code Refactoring Tools
• Continuous Build and Integration
• Automated Code Review
• Virtual Machines, VM / Cloud Computing ( See CS 441 )

Spring 2020 Research Results

Three or More References

• Disciplined Agile Delivery ( DAD )
  • From DisiplinedAgileDelivery.com
  • From wikipedia ( 3 )
• Reverse Engineering
  • From wikipedia
  • From geeksforgeeks.org
  • Boomerang - From "Resources" page for "Reverse Engineering"

Two or More References

• Cleanroom Software Engineering
  • CMU Technical Report
  • From wikipedia
• DevOps Guide
  • From IBM.com
  • From wikipedia
• Dynamic Systems Development Method ( 2 )
• Personal Software Process ( PSP ) ( 2 )
• Stand Up Meetings ( 2 )
• Test Driven Development ( TDD )
  • From guru99.com
  • From wikipedia

Single References

• Ant
• Anti Patterns
• Automated Code Review
• Behavior Driven Development
• Build Automation
• Collective Code Ownership
• Continuous Delivery ( related to continuous deployment and continuous integration. )
• Continuous Integration
• Critical Path Method
• Crystal Methods
• Generic Programming
• Gradle
• Leankit.com, "Top 6 Software Development Methodologies"
• Lightweight Methodology
• Maven
• Model-Driven Engineering
• Release Engineering
• Scrumban
• Search-Based Software Engineering
• Software Craftsmanship
• Software Design
• Software Maintenance
• Specification by Example
• Systems Engineering, from Britannica.com
• Usersnap article on three software development methodologies

Scrum

• Wikipedia on Scrum( software development )
• Ken Schwaber & Jeff Sutherland, "The Scrum Guide", from scrum.org

Required Reading - For CS 442 Spring 2019 ( This list will be updated throughout the term. )

• Wikipedia on Scrum( software development )
• Ken Schwaber & Jeff Sutherland, "The Scrum Guide", from scrum.org
• Wikipedia on Extreme Programming
• Wikipedia on Extreme Programming Practices
• Excerpt of "Planning Extreme Programming" by Beck & Foweler, posted to Blackboard. ( Front & back covers, title & copyright pages, preface, table of contents, Bills of Rights from chapter 2, index. )
• Class Handout from Kent Beck and Martin Fowler, "Planning Extreme Programming", Addison-Wesley, 2001, ISBN 0-201-71091-9, posted to Blackboard.

Required Reading - For CS 442 Spring 2018

• Class Handout from Martin Fowler, "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code", Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN 978-0-201-48567-7.
• Mauro Pezze & Michal Young, "Software Testing and Analysis: Process, Principles, and Techniques", Wiley, 2008, ISBN 978-0-471-45593-6, Chapters 9 to 13, 14.2, 15, 17, 18, 23
• See also the Course Notes page.
Books Online via the UIC Library.
• Start by reading sections 1.4 and 1.5. Other material TBD.
• "Version Control with Git" by Loeliger & McCullough - Excerpt on hooks for automating tests.
• Wikipedia on Scrum( software development )
• Ken Schwaber & Jeff Sutherland, "The Scrum Guide", from scrum.org
• Wikipedia on Extreme Programming
• Wikipedia on Extreme Programming Practices
• Excerpt of "Planning Extreme Programming" by Beck & Foweler. ( Front & back covers, title & copyright pages, preface, table of contents, Bills of Rights from chapter 2, index. )
• Wikipedia on Test Driven Development
• Class Handout from Kent Beck, "Test-Driven Development By Example", Addison-Wesley, 2003, ISBN 978-0-321-14653-3.
  • Patterns for Test-Driven Development, from the same source, with JTB Notes
• Paul Hamill, "Unit Test Frameworks", O'Reilly, ISBN 978-0-596-00689-1, Available from Safari Books Online via the UIC Library.
  • Read chapters 1 to 4, and the chapter corresponding to your language of development. ( You may also find the appendices useful. )
• See also copies of slides on the Notes page.

• Items beyond this point are future plans, and may change:
• Gamma et. al., "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software", Addison-Wesley, ISBN 978-0-201-63361-0, Available from Safari

Required Reading - For CS 442 Spring 2017

• Wikipedia on Extreme Programming
• Wikipedia on Extreme Programming Practices
• Wikipedia on Test Driven Development
• Class Handout from Kent Beck and Martin Fowler, "Planning Extreme Programming", Addison-Wesley, 2001, ISBN 0-201-71091-9.
• Class Handout from Kent Beck, "Test-Driven Development By Example", Addison-Wesley, 2003, ISBN 978-0-321-14653-3.
  • Patterns for Test-Driven Development, from the same source, with JTB Notes
• Class Handout from Martin Fowler, "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code", Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN 978-0-201-48567-7.
• Mauro Pezze & Michal Young, "Software Testing and Analysis: Process, Principles, and Techniques", Wiley, 2008, ISBN 978-0-471-45593-6, Chapters 9 to 13, 14.2, 15, 17, 18, 23
• See also the Course Notes page.
• ( After first Midterm ) Wikipedia on Version Control Systems
  • Comparison of version control software
• Paul Hamill, "Unit Test Frameworks", O'Reilly, ISBN 978-0-596-00689-1, Available from Safari Books Online via the UIC Library.
  • Read chapters 1 to 4, and the chapter corresponding to your language of development. ( You may also find the appendices useful. )
• Gamma et. al., "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software", Addison-Wesley, ISBN 978-0-201-63361-0, Available from Safari Books Online via the UIC Library.
  • Start by reading sections 1.4 and 1.5. Other material TBD.

Extreme Programming

• Wikipedia page on Extreme Programming, last accessed 19 Jan 2017.
• Wikipedia page on Extreme Programming Practices, last accessed 19 Jan 2017.
• Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres, "Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change", Second Edition. ( Link is to Amazon. I use the Kindle edition of this one. )
  • Powerpoint handout
• Kent Beck and Martin Fowler, "Planning Extreme Programming", Addison-Wesley, 2001, ISBN 0-201-71091-9. ( Link to Amazon search results. )
  • Excerpt distributed in class. ( Front & back covers, title & copyright pages, preface, table of contents, Bills of Rights from chapter 2, index. )

Test Driven Development

• Originated by Kent Beck, the originator of Extreme Programming
• Wikipedia on Test Driven Development ( includes Anti-Patterns. )
• Kent Beck, "Test Driven Development by Example", Addison Wesley, 2003. Available from Amazon.

Code Repositories / Version Control

• Wikipedia on Version Control Systems
  • Comparison of version control software
  • Comparison of source code hosting facilities
  • List of version control software
• Bazaar
• Bitbucket (4)
• Bitkeeper
• CloudForge (2)
• Git (*)
  • Pro Git - THE Authoritative Reference Book
  • https://www.g2crowd.com/products/git/competitors/alternatives
  • See also section on Git below
• Github (5)
  • Quick Look plugin - Preview files in jpg, pdf, doc, etc. formats.
  • ShareX plugin - Record / capture screen area and share it.
• Gitlab
• Google Docs / Google Code
• Mercurial (3)
• MS Team Foundation Server
• Office 365
• Perforce: Helix Versioning Engine
• ProjectLocker (2)
• SourceTree - Supports both git and Mercurial
• Subversion, SVN

Requested Topics, other than specific tools

• Case Studies
• Data Modelling
• Design Patterns (2)
  • Wikipedia on Design Patterns
  • Gamma et. al. "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software", available from Amazon or Safari via the UIC Library
• Economics
• Flexible Data Schemas
• Generic Programming
• List of software development philosophies, from Wikipedia
• Maintenance
• Mind Mapping
• Open Source Development
• Project Management
• Reverse Engineering
• Security
  • OAuth security framework
• Software Licenses
• UI Design(2) - See CS 422
• Usability Testing

Unsorted Survey Results

• Wikipedia on CASE, Computer Aided Software Engineering - Provides a good general overview of the subject, and a nice organization and classification scheme. Ironically does not have much information on or links to specific tools.
• Ajax (2)
• Akka
• AppFollow
• Card View
• CASPER
• Category: Agile softwae development from Wikipedia
• Category: Software comparisons from Wikipedia
  • Comparison of Scrum software
  • Comparison of project management software
  • Comparison of Kanban software
• Design Tools - Balsamiq Mockups, Unity 2D/3D, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, & Illustrator.
• JSON / XML (2)
• Lean Startup
• Martin Fowler - Leading proponent of UML, refactoring, continuous integration, and other agile topics.
  • MartinFowler.com
  • Amazon page
• Meteor.js - JavaScript web-development framework
• Methodologies
  • Wikipedia on Software development process
  • Wikipedia List of software development philosophies
  • Kanban - Methodology where current active task is only task. Competitor to scrum and XP. (3)
  • Adaptive Software Development, ASD - Agile methodology, competitor to XP & Scrum
  • Feature-Driven Development, FDD - Agile methodology, competitor to XP & Scrum
• Microservices - Independently deployable web services
  • Article by Martin Fowler
  • Developers Blog
• NoSQL DB (2)
  • MongoDB and Document DB
• Patchwork
• PHP
• Puppet - Configuration Management
• Realm - DB platform for mobile devices

Agile/XP Planners / Groupware

• Wikipedia on Collaborative software
• AceProject
• Agile Manager by HP
• Asana (4) - Alternative to iceScrum
• Apache Kafka - distributed messaging system
• Axosoft OnTime Scrum
• Basecamp (3)
• CA Agile Central
• Craft
• CodeBunk - Collaborative ( code ) editor, with integrated audio and video calling built in.
• Dapulse
• Gerrit( )
• iceScrum (*) - See Below
• Intraboom
• Jama
• Jira - Agile alternative to iceScrum (9)
  • https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/agile
  • https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-reasons-choose-atlassian-jira-agile-projects-piotr-pracuch
  • Atlassian related products: HipChat & Confluence
• Jive
• Leankit - Sticky note on whiteboard paradigm
• MS Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
• Pivotal Tracker
• Planbox
• Slack - A communication tool for teams.(3)
• Smartsheet
• Taiga - competitor to iceScrum
• Trello - A scrum-style site for project management. (2)
• Twilio - Communication Tool
• Twproject

AntiPatterns - Patterns of common pitfalls to avoid

• E.g. Code smell, Blind faith, Cargo cult programming, Magic Numbers
• W.J. Brown, H.W. McCormick, et al. "Anitpatterns in Project Management". Wiley,
  2000.
• J. Kerievski. "Refactoring to Patterns". Addison Wesley, 2004.
• C.J. Neill, and P.A. Laplante. "Antipatterns: identification, refactoring, and
  management". CRC Press, 2005.

Testing Frameworks / Test Automation

• Wikipedia Software Testing Portal
• Wikipedia list of unit testing frameworks
• https://techbeacon.com/6-top-open-source-testing-automation-frameworks-how-choose
• C++ - Boost, QA Systems Cantata, CppTest
• Jasmine(2) - JavaScript
• Java - JSST, JUnit (5)
• JBehave
• Jubula
• Mockito - create mock objects for testing. (2)
• .Net, C# - csUnit, Moq, Typemock Isolator
• Quality Assurance ( Subject, not a specific tool )
• Ranorex
• RedwoodHQ - Web interface testing
• Robolectric - Android
• Selenium - Automated testing for web apps. (2)
  • http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/test-automation-frameworks-selenium-tutorial-20/
• Serenity
• Sikuli Script - GUI testing
• SoapUI
• Squish GUI Tester
• TAP - Test Anything Protocol ( language independent )
• Tellurium
• Webload by RadView - Tests pages using WebSocket, PUSH, AJAX, SOAP, HTML5, WebDAV, etc.
• xUnit

Test Case Generation Tools

• Databene Benerator
• DataFactory
• DataGenerator
• Spawner

Requirements Analysis

• ArgoUMLO
• LucidChart - free online diagramming tool
  • Examples
• Rational Rhapsody ( Rational Rose )
• Robertson and Robertson, "Mastering the Requirements Process: Getting Requirements Right", Third edition available from Safari via the UIC Library.
• StarUML (2)

Design Strategies

• Component-Based DEsign (CBD)
• Data Structure-Centered Design
• Function Oriented ( Structured )
• OO

Reverse Engineering Tools

• Apache Commons BCEL, Byte Code Engineering Library
• Boomerang
• Reverse Engineering Compiler
• Sandmark

Build Tools / Code Generation Tools

• Atomweaver
• Bugsnag
• Celerio
• CodeClimate - Analysis for refactoring and optimization
• Coding Environments
  • Cloud 9 (3) - Online IDE
  • Kobra - Online IDE, with integrated audio / video calling features.
  • Koding
• CPlusPlus.com
• Eclipse
• GeneXus
• gdb
• Gradle
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradle
  • https://gradle.org/getting-started-gradle/
• Maven (4) - Eclipse build in for Jar files
  • Maven website
  • Wikipedia article
  • Sonatype, "Maven: The Definitive Guide", O'Reilly, available from Safari via UIC Library
• MS Visual Studio LightSwitch
• Stack Overflow
• Valgrind - profile

Code Refactoring Tools

• Wikipedia on Code Refactoring - Includes list of automated code refactoring tools, with links: IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, Eclipse, NetBeans, JDeveloper, Embarcadero Delphi, Visual Studio, CodeRush, Visual Assist, DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit, Photran, Xcode, AppCode, PyCharm, Wing IDE, PyDev )
• AutoRefactor - Eclipse plug-in
• Eclipse
• Martin Fowler, "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code", available from Amazon.
• IntelliJ IDEA
• Klocwork - Code refactoring (2)
• ReSharper
• VersionOne
  • https://www.versionone.com/agile-101/agile-software-programming-best-practices/refactoring/
• Visustin

Continuous Build and Integration

• Wikipedia on Continuous Integration
• Wikipedia comparison of continuous integration software
• Martin Fowler, "Continuous Integration"

• Bamboo by Atlassian - extension to Bitbucket? (2)
• Buildbot - automates compile/test cycle
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buildbot
  • http://buildbot.net/#/basics
• Feature Toggles ( as opposed to feature branches. )
• Jenkins - Automated server for continuous delivery (7)
• Snap by ThoughtWorks
• TeamCity by Jetbrains

• Continuous Deployment / Deployment Pipeline ( Goes beyond in-house build and test )
  • https://continuousdelivery.com/
  • Docker - Compression and installation. ( Competitor to zip? ) ( VM Server ? ) (3)
  • https://opensource.com/business/15/7/six-continuous-integration-tools

Automated Code Review

• Code Analysis - Application Analytics by CAST
• Collaborator
• Crucible ( Atlassian ) (2)
• Gerrit ( on top of git. ) (3)
• lint

Virtual Machines, VM / Cloud Computing

• AWS / EC2 (4)
• Azure (2)
• Linode
• Microsoft Azure (2)
• Serverless Architecture - as-needed VM in the cloud
  • https://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html
• Virtual Box
• VMWare
• Vultr

Topics below this line were part of this resources file prior to Spring 2017

iceScrum

• Instructions specific for CS 440 at UIC
• Local server: marvin.cs.uic.edu:8080/icescrum
• Getting Started documentation: www.kagilum.com/documentation/getting-started-with-icescrum/
• Main site: icescrum.org
• Online documentaiton: kagilum.com/documentation/

git

• Version Control Slide Show
• http://progit.org/book/
• git-scm.com/downloads - Download a local git client for your personal machine.
• A nice git tutorial is available at https://git-scm.com/docs/gittutorial
• code.google.com/hosting
• Source Tree - A free git & Mercurial client for Windows or Mac
• Git Immersion - Online tutorials and access to git with a graphical interface for Mac and Windows

• Sample Persona - Michael Scott, owner-operator of Pet-A-Parrot, Inc.
• CS 442 File Naming and Formatting Guidelines
  • PDF
  • Word ( Formatted per progress report guidelines
• Volere Materials
  • The following were downloaded from the Volere Requirements Resources web site, http://www.volere.co.uk/
  • You may want to visit that site for more information, including possible updates.
    • Template Package Contents v16.pdf
    • Volere template 16.doc
    • Volere template 16.pdf
    • Requirements Knowledge V2.pdf
    • Library Case Spec V2.pdf
    • Controller Case Study V4.pdf
    • Volere Atomic Requirements example.xls
    • Volere Atomic REquirements Stationery copy.xs
    • Volere Snow Card.pdf
  • templateArchive.zip - All of the above
  • Stakeholder Analysis Spreadsheet from Appendix B - Not included in zip
• General
  • CS Department Tutoring Service Click here to view the schedule of available tutors.
  • ACM Web Site ( Tutoring )
  • Linux Users Group ( LUG ) Web Site

• Use Case Form

  • With instructions
    • Word
    • PDF
  • Blank
    • Word
    • PDF
• Microsoft Software Program:
  • Dale Reed's Microsoft Software Program page
  • MSDNAA Direct Web Site:
    1. Go to https://msdn01.e-academy.com/uic_cs
    2. Your login name is your CS e-mail address ( including the "@cs.uic.edu" ) This may be a temp account if you are enrolled in CS classes but are not a CS major.
    3. Your password should have been mailed to you at the beginning of the semester. ( To your CS account. ) If you need them to e-mail it again, there is a button on the page to do that.
• To run Linux on a Windows system using VMware, follow these steps:
  1. Download the free "VMware Player" tool from http://www.vmware.com/download/player and install it on your system
  2. Choose a Linux version from among hundreds of virtual machine images at http://www.vmware.com/appliances
  3. Boot the virtual machine within VMware Player.
• Ubuntu