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Exposing design flaws in your code, Part 1: Code review

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Level: Introductory

David Bridgewater (dbridgewater@jbridge.co.uk), Freelance writer and trainer, Studio B author

09 Aug 2005

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Learn how to identify design problems in your code with the Code Review tools within Rational Software Architect. This tutorial uses a sample application to show you how to use the Code Review rule engine to highlight low-level and high-level coding and design issues, including those that are specific to Enterprise Java. This is the first in a two part series: the second in the series explores the same sample application with Rational Software Architect's Architectural Discovery tools.

Prerequisites

Some familiarity with Java and J2EE programming is assumed. This tutorial does involve some optional programming elements. However, the main focus is on showing how you can use Rational Software Architect to identify and diagnose bad design techniques.


System requirements

To complete the steps in this tutorial, you need:

  • Rational Software Architect. Download a trial version at no cost. Rational Software Architect runs on Linux and recent Microsoft Windows platforms. Check the system requirements link from the download page for detailed information.
  • AntiPatternWeb1.zip (included with the tutorial). Download this file, which contains the Web archive (WAR) file with the sample application used in this tutorial.


Duration

Under one hour


Formats

html, pdf


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