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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

Setting up the hms_artisan project

With all of the foundation classes we need (so far) defined in hms_core, we can start building out the concrete classes that correspond to them in other projects. Since the plan is for the Artisan Application to have a custom, local data storage mechanism, and that's likely going to be more complicated than the equivalents in the Central Office application and the Artisan Gateway service, it arguably makes the most sense to start with that project, and by creating a project structure to meet the needs of this story:

  • As a developer, I need a project for the Artisan Application so that I have a place to put the relevant code and build the application.

Initially, the code for the hms_artisan classes could start in the hms_artisan/__init__.py file, just as the business object ABCs in...