Project Development

Development

The intention of this page is to outline some of the tools and methodologies used in this project for new developers.

IDE

Eclipse

Logging

Log4J - The 1.2.17 log4j jar file is included in the lib folder of the project.

Testing

jUnit - Currently using jUnit 4 included with the Eclipse IDE

Test Driven Development

Test driven development is a method of writing automated test that will test code used to implement features. The code to implement a feature is written only after the unit test to test the code is written.

Model-View-Controller (MVC)

Classes intended as data containers (Model) are written and separated from Classes intended to display (View) the data. Interactions between the data container and display are implemented through events (Controller).