Overview

Diomidis Spinellis
Department of Management Science and Technology
Athens University of Economics and Business
Athens, Greece
dds@aueb.gr

Goals

An overview best-of-breed tools
Application examples
Best practices
Productivity tips and tricks
Turn OSS tools into a strategic advantage

Your Instructor

Diomidis Spinellis (http://www.spinellis.gr)
Professor of Software Engineering, AUEB (http://www.aueb.gr)
Secretary General of Information Systems, Ministry of Finance
IEEE Software (http://www.computer.org/software): Tools of the Trade
Member of the FreeBSD development team
Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective (Addison Wesley, 2003)
Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective (Addison Wesley, 2006)
Beautiful Architecture(O'Reilly, 2009)

The Case for Tooling

Capital expenditures in different industries

Industry	Revenue ($ bn)	Capital Expenditure ($ bn)	CE / R (%)
Semiconductors	430,360	99,577	23.1%
Motor vehicles	1,094,157	90,042	8.2%
Prepackaged software	105,356	3,402	3.2%
Programming services	18,216	438	2.4%

The Case for Open Source

Open architecture: combine, mix and match
Industrial strength solutions
State of the art technologies
Vendor independence
Ability to support and enhance in-house
Easy procural
Cost

Ten Software Tool Sins (10-6)

10. Disjoined source and documentation
9. No automated testing
8. No bug tracking
7. Underutilizing compiler, types
6. Scripting ignorance

Ten Software Tool Sins (5-1)

5. Silencing the compiler
4. No version control
3. Manual identifier tracking
2. Debugging through print statements
1. Manual repetitive editing

Overview

System Software
Version Control
Build Management
Collaboration
Code Manipulation
Inspection and Testing
Performance Measurement
Documentation and Visualization
Tool Building

Contents