SE511 - Week4 - Post3

My lack of C++ has been causing me headaches. I was trying to instantiate classes incorrectly.  Fortanetly, John posted something on the class Google Groups that help me out. Now I'm up and running with some of my tests.  I'll be meeting with the team tomorrow to discuss our progress for this week's deliverables.

SE511 - Week4 - Post2

SE511 - Week4 - Post2

I updated the Team D Wiki PA1 page to have a table for the who is doing what.

I've got some tests setup. However, my lack of C++ is getting the best of me. I'm getting "IntelliSense: a nonstatic member reference must be relative to a specific object" errors and I'm having a difficult time setting up the objects to test them.

SE511 - Week4 - Post1

Tonight I attended the CDM Graduate Student event and met Ed. This week I added Ed to the Team D Google Groups page. I spent some more time reviewing the physics code and brushing up on C++.  I found the following websites useful for C++: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2293481/understanding-c-code-what-do-datatype-and-classnamemethod-mean and http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/classes/.  I find a lot of helpful things on the stackoverflow.com, I use it a lot for my iPhone development stuff.

Team D had some confusion on our group roles. All of us will be submitting our own write-ups for PA1.

I found the Understand C++ output from the physics code to be very useful.  I used this tool to pick my easy, medium, and difficult tests. I created a spreadsheet for Team D and posted it on our Wiki at: https://sites.google.com/site/se511globalsoftwaredevw2011/home/team-d/project-assignment-1-unit-testing  The rest of the team is planning on picking their tests by Saturday, 1/29/11.

I will be working on writing the tests over the weekend. I will post my difficulties and successes as they occur. The team will be meeting on Tuesday to discuss the project.

SE511 - Week3 - Post4

Team D just had our first team meeting.  Brad has taken on the lead role for PA1, thanks Brad!  I setup a Team D Google Groups page at: http://groups.google.com/group/depaul-se511---team-d, email: depaul-se511---team-d@googlegroups.com I sent out a message to the team on the physics code.  I haven't done unit testing in Visual Studio, but I have done a lot with JUnit. I'm going to try out a few test cases and provide feedback to the team on how to break up the work.  For my role, I guess I will be tackling the project write up, but I'm hoping that we can divide this up among the team. We'll have to see if it's better to post documents to our Wiki or start a Google Docs page.

SE511 - Week3 - Post3

Mirza helped resolve my issue with the PA1 Visual Studio project:

"Here's how you fix it:

Project Properites -> Linker -> Manifest File -> Generate Manifest
File: NO.

It's a weird bug because on some computers it'll be an issue and on
some it wont.  I remember the exact some perforce repository worked
fine on some school PCs but would have the issue on my home PC.  This
should take care of it.  Let me know if this works."


I'm looking forward to meeting my team tomorrow and getting project 1 started.

SE511 - Week3 - Post#2

I updated the Team D so that the team members' names are links to their individual blogs.

I started looking at the Physics code, but I've ran into a snag.  I can clean and build the project, but I can't run it per the provided "Readme.txt" found under PA1/Project_1/ .  I posted the issue to the class blog and I'm hoping that it's an easy solution that somebody can help me with.  Other students are having the same issue.

I looked at the following pages for solutions to the problem:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vbgeneral/thread/e60dcbf9-c6a0-47a6-bc37-68d4edc45276/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/612624/unable-to-start-program-debug-build

SE511 - Week3 - Post#1

It was nice to have the lecture notes posted this week.  I watched SE511 lecture 3 and submitted my contact information for Team D on the class Wiki page. I'm also going to try to link my personal blog to my contact info.   I'm waiting for the rest of the team to submit their contact information so that we can kick off the first phase and pick the team lead.

In the meantime, I created a Team D Wiki Page for Project 1.  I'm also going to start looking at the Physics code and unit test suite.

I opted to skip the Bears/Packers game so that I can keep on my assignments for SE511 and SE591.

SE511 - Week2 - Post#2

Over the weekend, I read chapter 1 from the Pragmatic Programmer.  If you like this book, Rework is also a good book to check out.

Week2 - Post1

I watched week 2's lecture. I'm waiting for the Branching lecture notes to be posted.

I'm also curious about the professor's comment about Java, "hope that Java goes away", why is this?  Do you favor Microsoft and C#?

SE511 - Week1 - Post #2

I submitted HW1 into Perforce. I wasn't clear on how the files should be submitted so I submitted the full Visual Studio C++ project folder.  I didn't get too fancy with the code, but I don't think that's the point of the assignment.
I do not have much experience with C++ programming, so that was the biggest hurdle for this assigmnent. However, I'm interested in learning the language and more about Visual Studio.

SE511 - Week1 - Post #1

Hellow SE511.  I've spent time this week getting my Perforce and Visual Studio 2010 environment setup and reading the online documentation.  I tried setting up my Perforce environment on Friday 1/7/11 prior to receiving the professors instructions on Saturday, but ran into issues since I needed creditials information.

I have completed the C++ programming assignment, and know I'm reviewing the best way to post it in Perforce.  I'm new to Perforce so I'm going to spend tonight figuring out the best way to use it.