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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

Summary

The pre-development and high-level conceptual design items for hms_sys are fairly straightforward, at least at the level of detail that's available coming out of the pre-development planning cycle(s). More detail will bubble to the surface once the user stories for the individual iterations' functionalities are fleshed out, along with a host of questions and implementation decisions and details. There's one iteration, though, that will happen first.

That first iteration, as hinted at, is concerned more with the definition of the tools, processes, and practices that will be in play through the real development of the final system. The odds are good that most of the decisions and setup that will be part of that will already have been decided upon by the development team, and by those who manage the team. Even so, it's worth looking at some of the options...