Software engineering at the ENS

Course summary

• 1. Introduction to Software Engineering + Cloud computing project
• 2. Antipatterns
• 3. Worlds in Software Engineering + Licensing models
• 4. The econony of software + Design to deliver
• 5. Software development scheduling
• 6. Development guidelines
• 7. Design patterns
• 8. Extreme Programming
• 9. The Art of Communication
• 10. Computing Performance

Course project

The project involves open source developments on cloud computing. The platform used will be Windows Azure. Project will be hosted on CodePlex.

Project 2009: Cloudster.

Development tools

Recommended tools (please install them before the session):

• Microsoft Vista or above (XP won't work for Azure development).
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
• Windows Azure Tools v1.1 - February 2010.
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 - framework for web apps
• TortoiseSVN (see TortoiseSVN): Client for SubVersion.
• AnkhSVN (see AnkhSVN): Visual Studio add-in for SubVersion.
• NUnit (see nunit.org): unit testing framework for .NET.
• NUnit addin (named TestDriven, see TestDriven.Net): unit testing addin for Visual Studio.

Getting started with .NET: La Saga .NET par Pascal Belaud (in French)

More tools (suggested, but not required):

• CruiseControl.NET (see ccnet.thoughtworks.com): continuous integration for .NET.
• MS Build Community Tasks (see msbuildtasks.tigris.org): automated tasks for custom builds.
• Microsoft Sandcastle (see sandcastledocs.com): documentation compiler for .NET.
• Autofac: inversion of control.
• Rhino.Mock: dynamic mock objects
• PowerShell: object oriented command line.
• NHibernate: O/R mapper (for general culture only, not be used in project).

References

• Apprentissage du language C# 2008 et du Framework 3.5 (ebook by Serge Tahé).
• AntiPatterns, Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis (book, antipatterns.com).
• Design Patterns in software engineering (article, wikipedia.org).
• Joel on Software, (blog, book, joelonsoftware.com).
• Expert .NET Delivery Using NAnt and CruiseControl.NET (book, apress.com).
• Microsoft Design Guidelines for Class Library Developers (online doc, msdn.microsoft.com)
• Jakob Nielsen on Usuability and Web Design (blog, online doc, useit.com).
• An introduction to programming with C# threads (PDF paper)

Last updated: 2010-02-12