• Final Documents (both team and individual) will be due at 17:00 on Wednesday, July 25. [posted July 24]

• The CTF 2007 competition will be held on Tuesday, July 17 (intra-team competition) and Wednesday, July 18 (inter-team competition) all in EN-3076 (Senior ECE Lab) starting at 14:00PM. [posted July 10]

• The sixth individual team meetings will be held at 13:30-14:00 on Tuesday July 10 (Green Team), at 12:00-12:30 on Friday July 13 (Red Team), and at 11:00-11:30 on Friday July 13 (Blue Team) all in room EN4001. [posted July 8]

• The fifth individual team meetings will be held at 13:30-14:00 on Tuesday July 3(Green Team), at 12:00-12:30 on Friday July 6 (Red Team), and at noon or in the afternoon of Tuesday or Friday (Blue Team) all in room EN4001. [posted July 3]

• The fourth individual team meetings will be held at 13:00-13:30 on Monday June 25 (Blue Team), at 13:30-14:00 on Tuesday June 26 (Green Team), and at 12:00-12:30 on Friday June 29 (Red Team) all in room EN4001. [posted June 25]

• Several minor changes/clarifications have been included in the CTF Specification Document (Revision 3.3). [posted June 18]

• On June 15 (Friday afternoon), we will have an EN7893 lecture starting from 14:00 in EN1000. [posted June 14]

• On June 13 (Wednesday afternoon), we will have EN7893 lectures starting from 14:00 in EN1000. Some issues related to CTF controller design will be discussed. [posted June 10]

• The third individual team meetings will be held at 13:00-13:30 on Monday June 11 (Blue Team), at 13:30-14:00 on Tuesday June 12 (Green Team), and at 12:00-12:30 on Friday June 15 (Red Team) all in lab EN3076. [posted June 8]

• The second individual team meetings will be held on Wednesday afternoon 15:30-17:00 (June 6) in the sequence of Green-Blue-Red. [posted May 31]

• The first individual team meetings will be held on Wednesday afternoon 15:30-17:00 (May 30). [posted May 27]

• Comments on the Simulator Preliminary Design have been available on the Web-Submit. [posted May 27]

• CTF Specification Document has been updated (Version 3.2) and test code for Simulator Alpha Implementation has been added. [posted May 24]

• Presentation and review of the CTF Simulator Preliminary Design will happen at 15:00 in EN1000 on May 23 (Wednesday). [posted May 22]

• Due to faculty meeting from 15:00 to 17:00 this afternoon, the office hours today will be moved to 13:00-15:00. And I will be also available after 17:00. [posted May 11]

• For anyone who has registered for ENGI7893 and didn't attend the lecture of May 2, please fill out the Student Survey Form and hand it to me (EN-3031) as soon as possible. Otherwise, team selection will not be able to consider your individual request. In the meantime, all the people are recommended to read the handouts regarding Context-Free Grammars and CTF specification and get yourselves ready for the project. [posted May 3]

Lecture Notes

• Introduction [pdf] [posted May. 1]

• Fundamentals and Team Structure [pdf] [posted May. 1]

• Software Lifecycle Models [pdf] [posted May 8]

• Software Qualities [pdf] [posted May 8]

• Software Engineering Principles [pdf] [posted May 15]

• Software Architecture Design [pdf] [posted May 15]

• Software Requirements Engineering [pdf] [posted May 22]

• Software Verification [pdf] [posted May 29]

• Testing with JUnit [pdf] [posted May 29]

• CTF Controller Design [pdf] [posted June 12]

• Common Design Pattern [pdf] [posted June 12]

Handouts

• Course Outline [pdf] [posted Apr. 30]

• Student Survey Form [pdf] [posted Apr. 30]

• Context-Free Grammars (referred to in CTF specification) [pdf] [posted Apr. 30]

• Capture the Flag Specification Document (Revision 3.1) [pdf] [posted Apr. 30]

• Capture the Flag Specification Document (Revision 3.2) [pdf] [posted May 24]

• Capture the Flag Specification Document (Revision 3.3) [pdf] [posted June 18]

• UML Diagrams for CTF Tools [word-doc] [posted May 11]

• Initial release of the CTF Tools [zip] [posted May 11]
  The zip file above contains the initial release of the CTF Tools packages. The network_layer package is not likely to change throughout the course of this term. However, some changes in the game_view_pkg are anticipated. Note that the build script uses Ant.

• Project FAQ

Deliverables

• Simulator Preliminary Design (Due 17:00, MondayTuesday, May 2122)  [htm] [posted May 8]

• Simulator Alpha Implementation (Due 17:00, Tuesday, June 5) [htm] [posted May 21]

• Simulator Verification Plan (Due 17:00, Friday, June 8) [htm] [posted May 29]

• Simulator Beta Implementation (Due 17:00, Friday, June 15 Tuesday, June 19) [htm] [posted June 05]

• Simulator Verification Report (Due 17:00, Friday, June 22) [htm] [posted June 12]

• Controller Layer 1 Preliminary Design (Due 17:00, Tuesday, June 26 July 3) [htm] [posted June 15]

• Controller Layer 2 Preliminary Design (Due 17:00, Wednesday, July 4 Friday, July 6) [htm] [posted June 15]

• Final Implementation [Team (including all your source code of Simulator and Controller Layer 1)] (Due 23:00, Wednesday, July 18) [posted June 10]

• Final Implementation [Individual (including all your source code of Controller)] (Due 23:00, Wednesday, July 18) [posted June 10]

• Final Document [Team (including Simulator and Controller Layer 1)] [htm] (Due 17:00, Wednesday, July 25) [posted July 17]

• Final Document [Individual (Controller Layer 2)] (Due 17:00, Wednesday, July 25) [htm] [posted July 17]

Evaluation & Teams

The project evaluation is broken down as follows:

Links

• How to Write JavaDoc Comments (a good introduction to properly commenting your code so that javadoc produces useful results)

• Capture the Flag (a description of the 'real' Capture the Flag game by the US Scouts)

• Capture the Flag Project (a research project that uses CTF as a platform for studying AI techniques)

• IBM Rational Software Architect, Version 7.0 (Eclipse plus a bunch of IBM plug-ins)

• Subclipse 1.2.x (Eclipse plug-in)

• TortoiseSVN (a window shell extension of Subversion, which is a version control system)

• Subversion repository on dijkstra.engr.mun.ca

Last Modified: Tue., July 24, 2007 (at 10:43) by Lihong Zhang