Questions tagged [development-process]
For questions relating to the process of developing software.
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How can I defend reducing the strength of code reviews?
I have started in a new team. I have 20 years experience as a developer, and I have been in the role of a team lead in several projects.
Normally I am very much pro code reviews, but I ended up in a ...
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Hotel restaurant menu ordering process
With my team I’m facing a problem.
For a hotel, we are asked to develope a cloud application that will let guests taking orders from hotel restaurant menu trough their devices.
To access the menu, ...
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Which SemVer version to use between releases?
I'm working on a project that uses Semantic Versioning. The commit history can be generalized as:
Also, the current version is present in source code (so that the software can use it for various ...
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What is the best way to code review a work-in-progress?
I am working on a feature with a system that I am unfamiliar with. The feature is not ready, but I want to show the code to my team (who is familiar with the system) so they can give me early ...
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How to change a data model
In my model a user entity has three attributes : ID, name, hasBoyfriend.
I want now to change hasBoyfriend to boyFriendsNames which is an array of names .
The user entity is used by many services.
The ...
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How do developers show progress when it's a “slow week”?
I'm working as the web developer with some friends who aren't coders themselves, but understand what goes on in the process. So, if it's been a week where I'm tackling a certain issue that I'm really ...
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How to anticipate a software future where ARM (potentially) replaces x86 in server and PCs? [closed]
With the introduction of Apple M1 processor, ARM has stood up to be a capable competitor and an alternative to x86 processors. We can foresee a future where ARM captures considerable market share of ...
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Productivity - Pushing towards 3 (at max 4) completed requests followed by code commits in a span of 8 hour interval on novel support requests
Situation
Right now, I am at a point of realization, that at my present position I am not completing requests with regular interval, have spaced out request completion. But to approach my true ...
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Is it helpful to create UML diagrams when developing a mobile app alone?
I'm thinking of developing my first mobile app and now that I have chosen the language(react native), created the wireframes and done almost all the preliminary work, I'm about to start the actual ...
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In a microserices environment, how to track which version of which service is deployed where and when?
TLDR
How do you keep track of which version of which microservice is deployed in which environment?
In Details
Say your company has dozens of Microservices and 5 different environments (Dev, QA, Prod, ...
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Is the UML diagram a good solution for project design and documentation? [duplicate]
I want to lead an Angular + NodeJS project. As this is my first experience, I thought about using UML diagram as both designing/architecting the project and also the project's documentation.
But I am ...
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Why are software requirements allowed to change if it means more work for software engineers? [closed]
In many projects, software requirements change, sometimes meaning we software engineers have to throw out our work and start over. Heck, we have entire methodologies built around the assumption that ...
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Prioritise continuous process improvement with customer work?
I'm reading about Toyota Kata and am impressed with the approach of continuous improvement of the process through constant experimentation toward a target condition.
What I haven't yet found anything ...
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API development - Exposing new version VS updating current version
Context
There is a back end and a front end team.
Back end exposes an endpoint to the front end app:
PATCH car/{carID}/tire
Problem
I want to update the aforementioned PATCH request functionality ...
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Automate clearing everything (database tables, log files, etc.) and starting from a fresh state during development?
The Issue
When I'm fixing a bug during web development projects, I often find myself cleaning out the existing (tainted) database records, clearing out log files, etc.
I do this so that I can start ...
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Origin of the idea of using separate specification / implementation / testing teams?
In our company we split up software development in three non-overlapping teams: a team that writes the specification, a team that writes the code, and a third team that tests the implementation ...
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What’s the difference between incremental and throw-away prototyping?
As far as I know, throw-away prototyping involves creation of prototypes in iterations where each prototype is discarded after one iteration. For incremental prototyping, the resources I referred to ...
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How to scale code reviews
My boss say we should find a way to scale code reviews at our company. As it is right now, we have about 16 software developers spread across 4 different teams/squads, but soon the company will close ...
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Who should describe the testing procedure of a bug?
I used to work for a software development company, and there they had following way of solving bugs and the according testing:
The bug ticket is analysed by the developer.
The developer solves the ...
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Proactive git branch conflict detection?
I'm considering creating a new tool, but I wanted to find out if something like it already exists.
The Pain:
Working with many collaborators on a monorepo, conflicts are not possible to detect until ...
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Inspection code reviews, is it outdated today?
I'm a big proponent of peer reviews on every change, like with pull requests etc, however I'm questioning if this type of review alone is enough.
For one, I have trouble with reviewers 'missing the ...
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Use debug-functionality without breaking architecture
note: This is of couse about software-architecture/design-principles, but as no architecture is completely detached from its language, please note that the language i am using is C++.
I am using an ...
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How should process be different for front-end vs back-end?
I'm looking for references that might help explain what I've seen in software engineering regarding processes for developing in the front-end vs the back-end. They are both difficult, but I tend to ...
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Best way to implement Shopify-like cache for products?
I'm currently building a shopping cart from scratch and am thinking of how I can cache the individual products as well as the product lists (e.g. Show All products page, Show 'Cakes' only page, Show '...
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Does an increment always involve a working prototype?
I would like to ask a question about Scrum. At the end of a Sprint, when we have the Sprint Review, we present an Increment.
The guide says that this Increment has to be potentially releasable.
My ...
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Can you have 2 processes modify a data store in a DFD diagram
If I have a Ban User process that should definitely modify the Accounts data store and if I have Create Account that should also should modify the Accounts data store.
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Running multiple version of code
How should I set up my project when I want to run the present version of a class against previous versions? I'm interested in issues related to code organization, file naming, and source control.
I ...
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How to deal with code impossible to change [duplicate]
This question maybe borderline with the workplace. Also I apologize if it sounds more like a rant than anything.
We have a legacy code base (million of line of code). No evolution is ever possible, ...
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What typical processes does the Software Engineering discipline consist of?
I'm reading the "Guide to software engineering body of knowledge" but I am very confused.
Does a typical process consist of: implementation and change, definition, assessment, process and product ...
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What are the challenges when scaling a dev team from one to two?
I work for a small-medium sized startup with a development team of 20 people and a very strong engineering culture. Engineering itself is split into smaller sub-teams and I am the only person ...
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When does it make sense to update eslint/prettier?
I have the following setup:
different teams
shared eslint config (that imports airbnb rules as a basis).
Whenever a developer decides to update libraries, if eslint/prettier have updates, it's a ...
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What steps should I take to become familiar with a new code base? [duplicate]
I've joined a small software development team to work on an existing code base. While I am tasking myself with learning the required programming languages and actually reading the code, I'm wondering ...
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Always better to wait?
I've been wondering if this concept has a name and a consolidated theory behind.
If you need to build software, but you don't need it right now,
it's always better to wait because the technology ...
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If my development machine is slow and has low end specifications, why can't I just rent a VM on Azure? [closed]
I need 16GB RAM on my development machine to do some Android programming but I can't really afford to buy a new one. So, what's there to stop me from just creating a VM on Azure, use it for just a few ...
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How to improve my development strategy?
I am writing a program for Windows, which uses two databases. One is very big (dozens of tables and thousands of records) and comes from another program, but I only download data from it. Second is "...
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Proper development workflow for fullstack app with multiple developers?
Say that I am developing a web application that has the following structure:
An SPA web frontend (angular in my case)
Postgresql database with:
A bunch of initial data in CSV's and JSON's that need ...
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what is the job of Design Phase of SDLC?
I am confused, from what i have read the design phase has nothing to do with how the software looks like and its about how it should be build in the next phase which is the developement phase?
My ...
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What Comes First, Project Planning or Requirment Analysis?
By first, i mean i have read articles which puts project planning as the first phase of the sdlc.
In my opinion it should come after the requirement analysis and specification, because if you dont ...
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Prototyping in Spiral model
The spiral model is a risk-driven SDLC model. There are many diagrams that describe this SDLC model. Here is one of them:
As we can see there are many iterations (one for concept of operation, ...
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How is the spiral model to be understood?
I need to check my understanding regarding the spiral process model as it is confusing me.
According to my understanding, the spiral model is similar to the waterfall model with the activities as ...
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Is there any type of development platforms for systems which have both electronic and mechanical components together with software components?
I am starting to work in a company. In this company, we have a set of products. These products are inherently related and have many shared functionalities and parts. Each of our products consists of a ...
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How to structure the project documentation?
I just started our bachelor thesis, and want to ask you how to make a proper documentation.
There are two pieces of software in our project's scope: a microcontroller software (node), and a server ...
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Making software defect correction “fun” [closed]
Where I work we occasionally come across really challenging defects, which require a great deal of technical expertise, skill and patience to resolve. Getting our most talented engineers to work on ...
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Should developers do things that defeat strong-typing, kill intellisense and make it difficult for other developers to follow? [closed]
Just to clarify: This is not a rant. I'm genuinely curious and it's a genuine question our of straight curiosity. I want to become a better developer and even little details like this count.
So, don'...
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Why isn't TDD more popular in universities?
Recently, a person here asked a basic question about how to compute in Python all permutations of elements from a list. As for most questions asked by students, I haven't provided the actual source ...
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Do seasoned developers still have to deal with merge conflicts?
I am still a software engineer in training, but I have heard the following adage multiple times:
Good coders don't have to deal with merge conflicts.
Whenever I work on a project with others, I'm ...
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As a developer, how should I work differently in kanban vs scrum?
I am a junior back-end developer at a large company in the US.
At the moment, my 10-member team is changing its approach from Kanban to scrum (2 week sprints). My current way of working is this: I ...
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How important is it to have a consistent technological stack? [closed]
I'm trying to make a browser MMO game as a hobby project.
Currently, the server-side code is written in ASP.NET Core (this was not my choice; the game started as an academic project and the prof ...
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My project manager does not accept carry-over in Scrum - is that normal?
I am a developer working on a new mobile app for Android and iOS with a big backend component. We have been in three sprints of this project, and we use Scrum with all of its ceremonies (refinement, ...
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How to prevent bugs in business-level configurations with similar discipline as in source code?
We have a system that allows our clients to coordinate people (shoppers) so that they can delivery groceries within 45 minutes from the order creation.
Each client has a set of stores where the ...
