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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

Summary

While there may be other data-access and data-persistence tweaks in later iterations, and there are a few data objects whose specific details aren't known yet because of integration concerns with other systems, the bulk of the data objects work is complete. 

Thus far, the development iterations against the hms_sys code bases have had most of their attention focused on what might be thought of as system functionality  ensuring that data structures are well formed, can be validated, and will live longer than a single user session or Python run. Interaction with system data from a user perspective hasn't been addressed yet at all. Before that can be addressed, though, there is another layer that needs to be at least analyzed, if not built  the Artisan Gateway service, which acts as a central point where data from remote...