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Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

By : Brian Allbee, Nimesh Verma
Book Image

Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

By: Brian Allbee, Nimesh Verma

Overview of this book

Software Engineering is about more than just writing code—it includes a host of soft skills that apply to almost any development effort, no matter what the language, development methodology, or scope of the project. Being a senior developer all but requires awareness of how those skills, along with their expected technical counterparts, mesh together through a project's life cycle. This book walks you through that discovery by going over the entire life cycle of a multi-tier system and its related software projects. You'll see what happens before any development takes place, and what impact the decisions and designs made at each step have on the development process. The development of the entire project, over the course of several iterations based on real-world Agile iterations, will be executed, sometimes starting from nothing, in one of the fastest growing languages in the world—Python. Application of practices in Python will be laid out, along with a number of Python-specific capabilities that are often overlooked. Finally, the book will implement a high-performance computing solution, from first principles through complete foundation.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Programming versus Software Engineering

Thinking About Business Object Data Persistence

It's a given that most programs and systems have a need to store and retrieve data to operate with. The alternative, embedding data into the code itself, is simply not practical, after all. The specific shape of the data storage involved can vary wildly, based on the underlying storage mechanism, the specific needs of an application or service, and even on nominally non-technical constraints such as the need to not require end users to install other software, but the fundamental need remains the same, no matter what those factors add up to.

The various component projects/sub-systems of hms_sys are no exception to this:

  • The Artisan Application will need to allow Artisan users to manage the products that the Artisan is creating and selling, and to manage at least some of their own business entity data
  • The Artisan...