Exam 2 (prep)

Due Oct 22, 2021 by 11am
Points 0

This is just a placeholder for Exam 2. Please bring your laptops on Friday; I'll give the exam over Canvas (but in person!).

The exam will cover the following topics:

design
- types of digrams (e.g., sequence, component, architectural)
- software for making diagrams
implementation
- picking stories
- time estimation
  - points, tshirt sizing, pizza sizing
  - why it's useful
- software for Kanban, Scrum
- comments
- style guidelines
- source code management (SCM)
  - version controls systems (VCS)
    - git, subversion (SVN), mecurial (hg), CVS, a couple others
    - distributed VCSs vs. centralized ones
    - Github/Bitbucket/GitLab, etc. vs. git
    - regularly updated binary files shouldn't be tracked
  - structure of a VCS directory
  - pull requests
    - writing good change lists (CLs)
    - making a pull request on GitHub
  - code reviews
    - writing good review comments
    - doing a code review on GitHub (on a pull request)
  - branching
    - how to branch
    - git-flow vs. github-flow (for organizing and naming branches)
  - git
    - basics (clone, add, commit, push)
    - branch / checkout
    - .gitignore
- dependency management & build systems
  - maven, ant, etc. etc. (focus on maven)
- Maven
  - build JavaDocs
  - run tests with JUnit 5 (see below)
testing
- unit tests, integration tests, API tests, GUI tests
  - JUnit 5 for unit and integration tests
  - postman (and similar) for API tests
  - Selenium, TestFX (and similar) for GUI tests
- Test Driving Development (TDD)
- continuous integration
  - setting up on GitHub
deployment
- configuration settings & sensitive data (keeping them out of the repository)
- version conventions
- deploying a software system
  - front end & self-contained software
    - self-hosted (desktop, web, some browser extensions)
    - store-hosted (most browser extensions, mobile apps)
  - server side
    - SaaS
    - physical server / virtual private server (VPS)
    - containers (e.g., Docker)
      - on physical server/VPS or through a SaaS
    - serverless (e.g., using AWS Lambda functions)