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Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

By : Brian Allbee, Nimesh Verma
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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

Setting Up SCM

Since the balance of the activities that need to happen in this iteration will ultimately need to be stored in SCM, the first story from the list that will be undertaken, with its tasks, is the following one:

  • As a developer, I need to know how source code for the system is going to be managed and version controlled, so that I will be able to appropriately keep/store the code I write:

    1. Create a blank SCM repository for the system—hms_sys
    2. Populate the repository with the baseline information and documentation needed for ongoing use
    3. Establish and distribute whatever credentials are needed for dev team members to access the repository

The code for hms_sys is going to live in Bitbucket (https://bitbucket.org), in a Git repository, so the first step is to set Up a new repository there:

The settings for the new repository are as follows:

  • Owner: The user...