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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

Distribution and installation considerations

The default setup.py, with the package name for hms_core added and comments removed, is very basic but still provides all that's needed to build a deployable Python package of the hms_core code base so far. It also provides the ability to execute all of the unit tests that've been created for the package, given the path that they reside in, and the ability to find the unit testing extensions that were put in play:

#!/usr/bin/env python

# - Provide an import-path for the unit-testing standards we're using:
import sys
sys.path.append('../standards')

# - Standard setup.py import and structure
from setuptools import setup

# The actual setup function call:
setup(
    name='HMS-Core',
    version='0.1.dev0',
    author='Brian D. Allbee',
    description=&apos...