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John Smart's Java Power Tools Bootcamp (JAVA-BOOTCAMP-01-05)

CODE: JAVA-BOOTCAMP-01-05 DURATION: 5 DAY/S

This five day Java Power Tools Bootcamp is a comprehensive, innovative and hands-on workshop covering best-of-breed open source tools and techniques for Agile Development in Java. You will learn how to optimise your development process, hone your programming skills and know-how, and ultimately produce better software. And you'll have fun while you're doing it!

The course is composed of an intensive 5-day workshop, with a mixture of teaching and lab exercises. You will learn how to implement modern Agile best practices for Java development within your own organisation. Each day starts with a discussion of Agile development practices and covers what tools and techniques you can use to support these practices.

You will come away from this workshop with a solid understanding of how you can improve your development practices back in the real world, as well as an abundance of practical tips and tricks that you can use in your day-to-day work.

Upon completion of this course you will also receive a free copy of John Smart's Java Power Tools book.

LEARN HOW TO:

Use Maven effectively to improve your development productivity and code quality, promote better software architecture, and improve team communication.
Understand the issues around dependency management in Java development, and be able to implement declarative dependency management in a corporate environment.
Know how to write effective unit tests and understand how to use unit testing practices to write more reliable code faster.
Understand how to use Behaviour-Driven Development to write better designed, more maintainable and more reliable code.
Be able to write automated database and web interface tests.
Understand how to use code quality and test coverage metrics to improve your code, and understand what the various metrics can tell you, and also what they can't.
Have a solid working knowledge of Subversion in the real world, and how to best use it in a Continuous Integration environment.
Know how to set up a working Continuous Integration server, complete with automated builds, tests, code quality audits and reports, and automatic deployment to an integration server.

PROGRAMME

Days 1 and 2

Advanced build and release automation with Maven 2 and Maven 3

Agile Development principles and practices – how to improve your development process in the real world
Introduction to Maven 2 – what is it, how can it help you, is it suitable for your project?
Creating a new project with Maven 2
The Maven development lifecycle – compiling, testing, building and deploying your application
Dependency management with Maven 2
Using Maven 2 in Eclipse
Using plugins to customize the build process
Setting up a local Maven Repository Manager with Nexus
Integrating Ant and Maven
Automating your deployment process with Maven
Deploying to a web application server
Using the assembly plugin
Automating the release process
Automated deployments with Cargo
Using Maven on legacy applications
What’ new in Maven 3 – new features, migrating to Maven 3, the maven shell, polyglot Maven

Days 3 and 4

TDD and BDD and ATDD tool and techniques for Java

Getting started with TDD and BDD
JUnit Kung Fu – Fixtures, Hamcrest asserts, Exception testing, Timeouts, Parameterized tests, Rule annotations, writing your own Hamcrest matchers
Continuous Testing in Eclipse with Infinitest
Using Mocks and Stubs for state-based and interaction-based testing with Mockito
Refactoring best practices
Using test coverage metrics to improve your testing process
Testing web applications with Selenium 2.0/WebDriver and Page Objects
Test-Driving Legacy Code
Automating your Acceptance Tests – Acceptance Test Driven Development
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Acceptance-Test Driven Development (ATDD) with easyb

Day 5

Code Quality and Continuous Integration

Measuring and Enforcing Code Quality
Enforcing coding standards with Checkstyle
Enforcing best practices with PMD
Detecting potential defects with FindBugs
What is cyclometric complexity and how can it help you write better code?
Centralized code quality management with Sonar
Continuous Integration
An introduction to Continuous Integration principles
Setting up a CI server with Hudson
Continuous Integration build strategies and best practices
Automated testing
Automated code quality audits
Automated reporting on project status and statistics
Automated deployment
Build pipelines and build promotion
Distributed builds

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Well known in the Java community for his many published articles, and as author of the Java Power Tools book, John teaches the Java Power Tools Bootcamp to Skills Matter's Java community.
More about John Smart

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

"Best development course I have been on in a very long time. Will seriously improve our development/build/test lifecycle."	Neil, Software Developer	Apr 2010
"One of the best and most useful courses I have attended."	Jonathon, Developer	Apr 2010
"Greatly enjoyed the course. Provided many useful insights on how to introduce improved ways of working and how to incorporate new technology with new and 'legacy' Java projects."	Derek, Technical Team Leader	Apr 2010

IS THIS COURSE FOR YOU?

This is a hands-on, practical course designed to teach specialised skills for real-world development situations. It is thus primarily suitable for a developer audience:

Java Developers of all levels
Software Architects
Technical Project Managers

COURSE PREREQUISITES

To benefit from this course, you should have a reasonable understanding of Java development as well as a basic understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle.

COURSE LABS & EXERCISES

The Java Power Tools Bootcamp is above all a practical, hands-on workshop. We believe that the best way to learn is by doing. So the course contains approximately 60% lab work.