Lecture #4 - XML

Web Resources:

Office Hours:   Instructor & TAs

Content:

Help session will be held at 6:30 pm this Friday, the 23rd, this week only.

1. The Syllabus describes topics to be covered, reading material for you to digest before coming to class, and due dates for the assigned projects.
2. Submissions naming convention: userid + project number + ".zip"
3. Project #2,  Project #3,  Project #4
4. Remote Testing Structure
   
5. Test Harness Structure
   
6. Test Harness Activities
   
7. Mono Project
   
8. dotGNU documentation
   A well designed alternative to the Microsoft .Net documentation. You can also find this link on the SWDev Page
9. XML Tutorials

   W3schools - basic
   University of Aarhus
   XMLFiles
   XML Tutorial
   XML Schemas
   

10. XSLT Tutorials

    htmlLite - basics
    zvon - complete tutorial
    W3C - thorough and formal
    XSL Tricks
    TopXML
    Michael Kay's overview
    Google XSL Links
    

11. Tagged Languages
    
12. XML Presentation
    
13. XML Demonstration Code
    
14. XML - additions, deletions, and modifications
    
15. XSLT Demonstration
    
16. XML Details Presentation
    
17. Uses for XML
    • Small databases - bug trackers, requirements models, project data
    • Representations for graphical data in Computer-Aided Design systems
    • Test data - acquiring structured data from a file, used to drive test procedures
    • Persistent data - save data generated by an analysis program for further analysis by other programs
    • Messaging - constructing structured messages for transmission over sockets or remoting channels
18. Plug-in Demo
    
19. Creating AppDomains Demo
    
20. Evaluating code projects - Cyclomatic Complexity, Size, Manual and Maintenance Pages, demonstration of requirements
21. Lecture #4 folder contains a page of links to presentations and code discussed in this class. The Lecture folders will occasionally hold physical files of interest as well. Usually, however, all the materials of interest to the class are in the presentations and code folders. The contents of these folders will grow as you progress through the course.