Questions tagged [development-process]
For questions relating to the process of developing software.
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Will introducing a long standing Dev branch create unnecessary maintenance overhead?
I am seeing bad practices occurring in our version control where my colleagues are creating their own versioning system with stored procedures so that they can compare results before/after changes and ...
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How can I avoid always feeling like if I completely rebuilt my program from scratch I'd do it much better? [closed]
I have learned a significant amount of coding, however, it's always been in a scientific environment (not computer science), completely self-taught without anyone to guide me in the right direction. ...
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What is the difference between agile and incremental development process models
As the title implies , what is the difference between these both concepts? According to my understanding , Agile software process uses increments , where some requirements are first implemented and ...
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Why programs developed using incremental approach are difficult to maintain? [closed]
I am confused , Why Software that are developed using the evolutionary approach are harder to be maintained ?
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What Software Delivery Guidelines are appropriate when outsourcing?
I started working at a very small company that regularly (not too often) has to outsource some software developments. The external suppliers than have to deliver something.
As I now have seen is that ...
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Should I be unit testing during prototyping/preparing for beta?
I am developing a web application for an industry that desperately needs it. Working with a consultant in the industry, I’ve rapidly developed a prototype in 2 months that we will be testing with a ...
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How to ensure that solution will be delivered in time in accordance with the estimates?
Very often developers are asked to provide estimates (at least rough ones) when a solution or feature will be ready.
What steps development team should take to ensure that estimated solution will be ...
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Development Process for Building Data Intensive Applications
I have been building production ETL applications for the team I am currently part of and the dev process for any given app has been going like:
Initial requirements and data
Build functional ...
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What is a good definition of “clear code” for a checklist (specifically Scrum definition of done)?
My manager wants us to complete a checklist for a Definition of Done, where the checklist items are short.
What is a good way to phrase "code is clear" that might better imply that the code is ...
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What are the barriers that prevent widespread adoption of formal methods? [closed]
Formal methods can be used to specify, prove and generate code for an application. This is less prone to errors - thus mostly used in safety/critical programs.
Why don't we use it more often for ...
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Developing and debugging microservices locally
The use case:
I am working on a microservice based architecture and I am wondering how I am supposed to debug a microservice (with my IDE attached to it) on my local machine where I develop it.
The ...
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How to implement a development process with college students
At my first job as a software developer, my team used agile/scrum to manage our project workflow and it worked pretty good. I had some experienced mentors who set me on the right track - I owe them a ...
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What's the practical development cycle of a large project when a full build is prohibitively long
Projects like webkit, Linux kernel and many others take over ten minutes if not hours for a full build. What's the practical development cycle for these large projects? Specifically, how does a ...
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Avoid or minimize merge conflicts while using NuGet and GitFlow
Here's our problem - we have several solutions with multiple projects using our own nuget packages. We're following GitFlow, but not SemVer. Every time we're developing bigger feature or epic we want ...
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Write some code and plague it with anti-patterns or not write it at all, any escape from this dilemma for a beginner? [duplicate]
I am now working on a project that started as university homework and actually, still is a university homework (not turned in yet...) and, if I'm successfull (that doesn't mean turning it in and ...
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Second step of BDD - write “failing scenario step”, does it mean the test for it?
Knowing that BDD somehow avoids using the term "test", I am trying to understand the process as described in a book called The Journey to Enterprise Agility: Systems Thinking and Organizational Legacy....
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How to manage multiple NuGet packages in GitHub and Artifactory?
My colleagues and I are in the process of re-architecting our system. The old system is a ASP.NET monolith using TFS for source control. The new system is made up of ASP.NET Core microservices using ...
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Design/Process in respect to mission-critical systems (Web Services)
Overview
For company abc, teams are separated in terms of mission-critical applications and their extended applications. For example, customer xyz uses mission-critical data, but there are business ...
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How to make the most out of a beginner-level development team?
I now find myself in a scenario, mentoring no more than 8 beginner-level developers and tasked with the development of a reasonably complex SPA website. It is to be developed using React (which the ...
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Should we assign version numbers for internal releases?
In our environment:
Internal releases are those which went through testing process. Builds either pass or fail.
External releases are those which are delivered to users.
For external releases, ...
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Agile methodology in pure technical terms
I often hear about agility processes, but it seems to me that it is (nearly) always tied to team organization and delivery processes. It (nearly, once again) never comes to the bottom of the bottle: ...
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CRISP-DM, which phase and tasks relate to User Acceptance Testing?
EDIT:
The project is about creating an algorithm for Procedural Content Generation for a videogame. The actual game is secondary to the algorithm. It must be something basic to test the Procedural ...
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Justifications for developing applications that work on beta versions of iOS?
I'm a participant of the Apple Developer Program and have been downloading and testing beta versions of iOS for a number of years now.
When updating to a new iOS version I sometimes notice that a ...
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How to use TypeScript to develop web applications
I've been reading a lot about Type Script lately, and it seems really interesting, but I'm having some trouble understanding how to apply this to my current workflow, so let's start with that.
I ...
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When is it better to optimize a software for better performance, at the beginning or at the end of the development?
I'm a junior software developer and I was wondering when would be the best time to optimize a software for better performance (speed).
Assuming the software is not extremely large and complex to ...
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Robustness vs Correctness Competition [closed]
Reading "Code Complete 2" in a Quality of Requirements paragraph I found this:
Are acceptable trade-offs between competing attributes specified — for
example, between robustness and correctness?
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Dealing with settings that will change on a per-environment basis?
We have a bunch of appSettings in our ASP.NET web application, not to mention connection strings, that change on a per-environment basis. Not just for different environments to which the web ...
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How to promote my open-source code manipulation library?
I am a programmer and I spend much of my time reverse-engineering software and writing website automation tools.
I wanted to have a better way of writing lexers and parsers because it is really ...
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By what criteria should automated end-to-end test implementation work be allocated?
Assuming that the entire product team has agreed that implementing some automated end-to-end tests* is worthwhile in the first place... By what criteria should the workload of implementing automated ...
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Sales Promotions concept and design with cron jobs
I'm currently building an app that includes sales promotions. There is an option in the promotion that allows the manager to have a start and end date. I do not want the manager to have to manually ...
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Best practices for developing NuGet package alongside consumer?
I'm writing a NuGet package mainly for data access and utility functions that is going to be consumed by multiple web applications, but there will be one main web application that is going to drive ...
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How do I start using Git for differing code bases from different servers?
Background: I've recently inherited a set of projects at my company and I'm trying to sort out some fundamental issues with how they've been handled. Namely, the previous developers (who are no longer ...
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Should checkins into the Master Branch be clean?
We had a debate on our team about how clean the Master branch should be.
The application is written and maintained by two people, me (a developer) and a GUI/UX designer. The GUI/UX designer does a ...
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Should all configurations and platforms run unit tests when application is in development stage?
I have open source C# .NET project at GitHub with Appveyor CI + code coverage.
There are configurations like Release and Debug. There's also platforms like x86, x64 and Any CPU.
This results to ...
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How is it possible for large companies to run software development teams without Project Managers?
Note - This is about software engineering.
A friend at work said:
Did you know that Facebook and Atlassian have abolished project managers for their software dev teams?
This sounded familiar, ...
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How can we use RFCs in closed source projects?
I really love the way open source projects use RFC as a tool to get feedback and ideas from the wider community. I've been especially noticing this over the years with the way Ember have been doing ...
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Using #ifdef to switch between different types of behavior during development
Is it a good practice to use #ifdef during development to switch between different types of behavior?
For example, I want to change the behavior of existing code, I have several ideas how to change ...
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Scaling an overgrown SCRUM team
Backstory
A scrum team is well defined. They have a PO, scrum master, clearly defined scope. The workload increases, as more and more projects are covered and need to be maintained, but it is still ...
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Follow Up: Legacy code maintenance and moving forward (implementing previous answers)
Overview
This is a follow up to my previous question that was flagged as a duplicate, and I do not know what would work better as the title.
Here is a link to the previous question:
Legacy code: ...
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Legacy code: what to do in regards to maintenance and moving forward? [duplicate]
I am currently working on an application with legacy code that was built using proof of concepts (POCs). These POCs became the finished production-ready code, there were no tests, and the classes have ...
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Does a manufacturing plant need to have CMMI (Level 2 or otherwise) compliance?
I'm giving a presentation tomorrow on Software Process and Machine Learning. My primary goal with the process slides are to get across that most of it is really reliant on project management and ...
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How to scale developers environment?
Currently we are developing our microservices by running them all locally using docker. We are now limited by the resources of our local machine and we are trying to find a solution to scale our ...
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How to get started on an existing, orhpaned software project? [duplicate]
In the life of a developer it often happens that you get assigned to an already existing software project, programmed by other developers. It can happen that this project is not maintained anymore by ...
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How to organise development process with AWS DataPipeline?
I'm introducing a Redshift for my team and it becomes a challenge to make a solid development process, so I need some info how to deal with it.
First, of all some info about current layout. We are ...
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Supply Dev Boxes For Team
All of our developers are remote in our company, including myself. The vast majority of our work centers around Laravel on a LAMP stack. We have various devs, some that are just for coding, some are ...
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Where are software element interfaces defined in Automotive SPICE process? Example needed
In Automotive SPICE 3, there seems to be an overlap in "Software Requirements" and "Software Architecture" about where are software interfaces defined. Can someone clarify this with a practical ...
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How to co-ordinate separate product teams without lumbering everybody with excess process and meetings?
About a year ago we started on the journey of slowly breaking apart our legacy E-commerce platform and replacing it with smaller rewritten services. We now have several teams each focusing on separate ...
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Clarification on Spiral Model Steps
Here's the representation of commonly seen Spiral Model:
From what it has been written in book and articles that I have read that in every iteration, the four steps are carried out in a loop:
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When will writing functional and integration tests be too early?
If a feature that was done in 2, 3 months and before it was merged into the main branch, and both branches were under constant changes every day, should integration tests be written at this stage?
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What is a good approach to manage promotions?
I'm making from scratch the website of my agency, an online food order and delivery service.
I'm trying to improve at best the promotion system: every restaurant has its own promotions, and some of ...
