SE Case Study File Manager

The File Manager project represents a case study concerning the object oriented development of software. It has been created by Stefan Gudenkauf in the context of his Individuelles Projekt, which subject is the development of a practical concept for education in software engineering [Gud04]. Since 2005, we have used the File Manager successfully as an educational example and as a basis for exercises in the Software Engineering course at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg.

The project's core consists of the presentation and documentation of the design of a file manager, which regards the entire software development process under utilization of software development tools and modern software engineering concepts. Thereby, especially the use of design patterns according to Gamma et al. [GHJV96] are presented as an important part of software development, and thus form a key element in the case study. Also, since we regard the File Manager as a concrete medium-scaled software project, we believe that the File Manager project is ideal for teaching software design aspects and the different software development concepts on basis of a non-trivial real-world example. As a sourceforge project, we want to provide this project as a basis for education in software engineering and for further development. 

The development of the File Manager is realized under utilization of the development tools 
Eclipse and EclipseUML.