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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

The concrete business objects of hms_artisan

The final definition of the concrete classes in the Artisan Application really just boils down to the following:

  • Defining each concrete class:
    • Deriving from the corresponding base class in hms_core
    • Deriving from JSONFileDataObject that was just defined
  • Collecting the arguments for the new class __init__ method, which needs to account for all of the arguments of the parent classes.
  • Implementing any of the abstract instance and class methods required by the parent classes, many of which have already been set up to allow the derived class to call the parent's abstract method.
  • Setting up a _file_store_dir class attribute value that can be used by instances of the classes until the final application configuration is worked out.

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