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CSC449

Module 3 Required Resources

Textbook

Engineering Software Products by Ian Sommerville
ISBN: 9780135210642
Publication Date: 2019-05-09
This book focuses on software engineering techniques that are relevant for software product engineering. Topics covered include personas and scenarios, cloud-based software, microservices, security and privacy and DevOps.

Sommerville, I. (2020). Engineering software products: an introduction to modern software engineering. Pearson.

Chapter 8: Reliable Programming
Chapter 9: Testing

Access these chapter reading links within your classroom. Your course textbook can be accessed via the DART eBook link in the Getting Started Module.

Articles, Books, and Links

Head first software development
Pilone, D., & Miles, R. (2008). Head first software development. O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Head First series presents introductory instructional books that are visually intensive, reader-involving, and conversational style to immerse readers in a given topic. This book is an excellent guide that provides best practices for software development. Recommend reading chapters 7 and 8.
Java: Testing with JUnit. A tutorial of using JUnit to perform unit testing in Java.
Practical Test-Driven Development in Java. A tutorial of performing test-driven development in Java.
GitHub documentation online on GitHub Actions
GitHub blog on setting up GitHub Actions

Videos