Assignments-Springs on SDL: Software Development Lab

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Assignment 1: BDD Introduction

Motivation: Software Development Challenges

If it ain’t tested, it’s broke. This is a quote from an avionics testing engineer. Testing cannot prove software works, but its almost certain that untested software does not work. The typical solution is do a bit of manual testing after writing code, but these tests are not repeatable. Written tests are slightly better, but too expensive to re-execute often. They do little to improve stability. But you probably have a lot of experience with software working today but not tomorrow. Errors always creep in. It critical to establish a thorough, automated test environment early in the project, and clients are unlikely to find systems without tests to be useful or maintainable.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Adding BDD to your SDL project

This assignment will give you experience with applying automated behavior-driven development (BDD) to your SDL project. It assumes that you have successfully completed the BDD introduction assignment and quiz.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Assignment 3: Knowledge Transfer Video

Assignment: Project Knowledge Transfer Video

This assignment is due Friday May 8, 2026 at 11:59 PM. NO LATE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Objective

The purpose of this assignment is to create a professional, high-quality video that documents your team’s project for future student groups. This video should serve as both a showcase of your work and a practical onboarding resource that helps others understand, set up, and extend your project.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Documenting Meaningful Test Suites

Include title information: A title for the assignment, your name, the date, and the course code (e.g., SWE3720).

Provide a link to a file with a suite of tests you wrote that is available on the main branch. (This means that you must perform a merge to main with at least that test if it is not already on the main branch.)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Individual Assignment: Writing Documentation

Each student will write documentation.

Ideally, this will be planned during Sprint 4, but could carry over into Sprint 5 for individual students if other activities take priority.