Software engineering at the ENS

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Course summary

• 1. Introduction to Software Engineering + Distributed Computing
• 2. Antipatterns
• 3. Worlds in Software Engineering + Licensing models
• 4. The econony of software + Design to deliver
• 5. Software 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 the grid computing framework named NGrid.
See ngrid.sourceforge.net

Development tools

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
• TortoiseSVN (see TortoiseSVN): Client for SubVersion.
• NUnit (see nunit.org): unit testing framework for .Net.
• NUnit addin (named TestDriven, see TestDriven.Net): unit testing addin for Visual Studio.
• 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.

References

• 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).
• Microsoft ASP.Net Ajax Framework (software, ajax.asp.net).

Last updated: 2007-05-08