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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 the Central Office projects

Up to this point, there's been a lot of effort concerning the foundations, but it's about to pay off, as the creation of the initial Central Office classes gets under way. At present, since the assumption is that the Central Office application and the Artisan Gateway service will be using the same business object classes, and that they need to reside in a common package that's not a part of the package set for either of those code bases, the best option for where they should live appears to be in the hms_core component project:

  • It was already in the design plan for hms_core to be included as a part of the build or deployment of all the other packages, anyway

  • Although it would certainly be possible to create yet another component project/package specifically for...