Principles of Software Construction
Principles of Software Construction
About the Book
About the Author
Table of Contents
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Introduction to Java
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An Introduction to Java
- Objectives of CPEN 221
- Objectives for this Reading
- What is Java?
- Java Programs and the JVM
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Hello World!in Java - Of Classes and Objects
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An Introduction to Java
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Static Checking, Testing and Code Reviews
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Static Checking
- Objectives for This Reading
- Hailstone Sequence
- Types
- Static Typing
- Static Checking, Dynamic Checking, No Checking
- The Goal of CPEN 221
- Why we use Java in this course
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Testing and Code Review
- Validation
- Putting on Your Testing Hat
- Test-first Programming
- Why Software Testing is Hard
- Choosing Test Cases by Partitioning
- Blackbox and Whitebox Testing
- Automated Testing and Regression Testing
- Code Review
- Smelly Example #1
- Smelly Example #2
- Smelly Example #3
- Summary
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Static Checking
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Specifications
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Need for Specifications
- Why Specifications?
- The Role of a Specification
- The Structure of a Specification
- Testing and Specifications
- Specifications for Mutating Methods
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Exceptions
- Exceptions for Signalling Bugs
- Exceptions for Special Results
- Checked and Unchecked Exceptions
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ThrowableHierarchy - Exception Design Considerations
- Abuse of Exceptions
- Test Yourself
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Designing Specifications
- Deterministic vs. Underdetermined specs
- Declarative vs. operational specs
- Stronger vs. Weaker Specifications
- Diagramming Specifications
- Designing Good Specifications
- Precondition or Postcondition?
- About Static vs. Instance methods
- Summary
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Need for Specifications
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Debugging
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How To Avoid Debugging
- Objectives
- First Defense: Make Bugs Impossible
- Second Defense: Localize Bugs
- Assertions
- What to Assert
- What Not to Assert
- Incremental Development
- Modularity & Encapsulation
- Summary
- Test Yourself
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How to Debug
- Instance Diagrams
- Debug Systematically
- Fix the Bug
- Summary
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Mutability and Immutability
- Risks of Mutation
- Specifications for mutating methods
- Iterating over arrays and lists
- Mutation undermines an iterator
- Mutation and contracts
- Useful immutable types
- Summary
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How To Avoid Debugging
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Abstract Data Types
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Abstract Data Types
- What Abstraction Means
- User-Defined Types
- Classifying Types and Operations
- Designing an Abstract Type
- Representation Independence
- Why Interfaces?
- Testing an Abstract Data Type
- Invariants
- Immutability
- How to Establish Invariants
- Summary
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Rep Invariants and Abstraction Functions
- Rep Invariant and Abstraction Function
- Checking the Rep Invariant
- Summary
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Interfaces
- Interfaces
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Example:
MyString -
Example:
Set
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Subtypes
- Subtyping
- Subclassing
- Subtyping vs. Subclassing
- Summary
- Test Yourself
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Equality
- Abstraction Function and Equality
- Three Ways to Regard Equality
- vs. equals()
- Equality of Immutable Types
- The Object Contract
- Equality of Mutable Types
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The Final Rule for
equalsandhashCode() - Expressing Ordering
- Summary
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Abstract Data Types
- Notes
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