Author: Yann Loic Philippczyk

Snakes exploring Pipelines – A “System Engineering and Management” Project

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Part 4: Jenkins and Wrap Up

This series of blog entries describes a student project focused on developing an application by using methods like pair programming, test driven development and deployment pipelines.

Our first blog entry for this year will at the same time be the final one for this project as well, but to ease your pain of separation, we saved a highlight for the very end: Jenkins integration!
Starting with a short introduction to Jenkins, in this entry we’ll guide you through installation and configuration.

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Snakes exploring Pipelines – A “System Engineering and Management” Project

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Part 3: Coding Guidelines

This series of blog entries describes a student project focused on developing an application by using methods like pair programming, test driven development and deployment pipelines.

An important part of any professional software development process (like ours 😀 ) are coding guidelines and methodologies, so we’ll deal with these in today’s blog entry. A fancy system we learned about in the course was the 12 factor methodology. It is mainly applicable for web-based, software as a service (SaaS) applications and defines high-level aspects an application should follow in order to remain robust and maintainable throughout its lifecycle.

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Snakes exploring Pipelines – A “System Engineering and Management” Project

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Part 2: Initial Coding

This series of blog entries describes a student project focused on developing an application by using methods like pair programming, test driven development and deployment pipelines.

Onwards to the fun part: The actual coding! In this blog entry, we will focus on test-driven development. Like we learned in the course, the very first task to do was to set up unit tests with JUnit, and so we did. As a quick reminder (or an introduction) the basic concept of test driven development:

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Snakes exploring Pipelines – A “System Engineering and Management” Project

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Part 1: Tool Setup

This series of blog entries describes a student project focused on developing an application by using methods like pair programming, test driven development and deployment pipelines.

Welcome to the next part our project, on its way to become the Snake game with the very best underlying code base ever. (If you somehow missed the introduction to our project, you may want to give it a read: Click ) Today, we’ll take a look at the most important tools we use for building and versioning our code: Eclipse, Gradle and Github.

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Snakes exploring Pipelines – A “System Engineering and Management” Project

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Part 0: Introduction

This series of blog entries describes a student project focused on developing an application by using methods like pair programming, test driven development and deployment pipelines.

Once upon a time, which was about one and a half months ago, an illustrious group of three students found together, united by the shared interest to learn more about systems engineering and software development in the aptly named course “System Engineering and Management”.

As we had to choose a project to work on for the course, we decided to explore modern, professional development methodologies as employed in software development companies.
In particular, we wanted to focus on pair programming and test driven development with unit tests for the actual coding, as well as using a build and deployment pipeline for continuous integration, supported by tools and a version control system.
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The Elixir Programming Language

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elixir

An introduction to the language, its main concepts and its potential.

The number of security incidents has been on the rise for years, and the growth of the Internet of Things is unlikely to improve the situation. Successful attacks on all kinds of interconnected smart devices, from car locks over home security systems to highly automated factories, have already been demonstrated and carried out.

An aspect contributing to the bad state of security is the use of programming languages which are highly prone to vulnerabilities, namely C/C++. With the increased interconnection of systems which could pose a danger to life if disrupted, for example vehicle controls or critical infrastructure, there is a need for programming languages which provide a higher level of security „by default“.

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