SENG 531: Labs TA: Brad Cossette Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 3-4pm ICT 524

Labs This Week: Monday  Demos Wednesday  Assignment 2  Resources for Eclipse  Demos

Reflections for Assignment 1 1. Assertions don’t tell me anything Justify your statements with examples, anecdotes 2. Talk intelligently, critically about your solution Explain what your solution does, not what it is. Saying it’s evolvable, or not bullet proof is not enough You need to do the coding to understand the solution Division of labor issues for larger teams 3. Too short is just as bad as too long  The best reflections were Roughly 3 pages long Had something interesting to say

Assignment 2 Overview It’s Assignment 2, but now it’s a plugin! Plugin for Eclipse 3.2  Version matters! Java Language Spec 2 nd edition  Roughly equivalent to the Java 1.4 SDK

Assignment 2: Use Case

New Context Item: Concrete Declarations

Assignment 2: Use Case Need to insert a root entry for each method invocation This will be your list of associated method declarations

Eclipse Architecture argument fighterbar field access

Eclipse Architecture argument fighterbar field access Same as Assignment 1 You’re responsible for doing the cross referencing

Assignment 2: Priorities 1. You must have a plugin working in Eclipse Get your Assignment 1 working in Eclipse A text-based printout should be a good starting point Good GUI implementation + non-functional back-end is not a good thing.

Before you panic Eclipse is  Open Source You can actually look under the hood if you want Get the Dev Kit  Developed by IBM And they’re pretty anal about documentation  Focused on Plugins So there’s lots of plugins out there  Fairly popular So there’s lots of tutorials and help out there

Some Resources Eclipse  Plugin central  Getting started with plugins AST’s in Eclipse  Plugin for Java AST’s in Eclipse

Some Resources Strathcona  Strathcona tries to recommend relevant code examples based on the your current context. Use at your own risk.  Installation  Usage

Suggestions You definitely want to have a plugin working by next Monday Version your code via  You MAY need to backup entire change sets. Play GMail against Hotmail Use pair programming if you’re having problems keeping everyone involved

Labs Next Week: Monday  Open Wednesday  Open  Let me know what issues you’re still facing