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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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1
Programming versus Software Engineering

Summary

The development efforts in this chapter have been scattered all over the system's code-base, largely because of some requirement gaps or implementation needs and details that surfaced as specific functionality unfolded. Ideally, in a real-world effort, much of that would have surfaced considerably earlier, and been expressed as specific tasks that were attached to the stories in the iteration, though some might still have occurred—we've made some decisions, both in this chapter and the one before, that shaped how things needed to work, that might not have been captured in an initial story analysis exercise.

As a result, the code at this point is quite probably broken. Perhaps drastically broken. Still, there's been a lot of progress against the iteration's stories, even if none of them can be formally closed yet:

  • Fundamental functionality for...