The goal of this course is to show selected advanced tools, which may help you to solve more complex problems in the process of software development and maintenance, and basic principles of their functioning (internals, technical details).
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Expectations
This course is intended especially for students enrolled to the first year of the Master’s programme in computer science, who already have:
- basic knowledge of the UNIX/Linux and Windows platforms
- advanced knowledge of mainstream programming languages (C/C++, Java, C#)
- experience with developing larger systems (e.g., individual project)
- minimal experience with developing web applications
In addition, we expect knowledge of common tools used in software development at the level of the course Software Development Tools.
Schedule
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| 29.9.2026 | Organization |
| 6.10.2026 | Nix & Nix Shells | Kafka + Conduktor Console | Jira & Confluence |
| 13.10.2026 | OpenAPI + Swagger | Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) | tools for program analysis, verification and systematic testing |
| 20.10.2026 | Act & Actionlint | Cypress | Zabbix |
| 27.10.2026 | --- |
| 3.11.2026 | Playwright | SonarQube | Selenium |
| 10.11.2026 | OpenTracing/Telemetry & Jaeger | Kubernetes | Zipkin |
| 24.11.2026 | Challenge |
| 1.12.2026 | Pact | Azure DevOps | Elastic Stack |
| 8.12.2026 | Kubernetes: přechod z fluxCD na ArgoCD, řízení aplikace (Tomáš Kukrál, Second Foundation) |
| 15.12.2026 | |
| 5.1.2027 |
Documents
Questionnaire to be used for evaluating presentations: evalform.txt