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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

Overall, these classes provide definitions that could be described as dumb data objects. They provide little or no functionality that isn't directly related in some fashion to the definition and regulation of a specific data structure. Even HasProducts, and the classes that derive from it, fall into this category since the functionality provided there is strictly concerned with providing a data structure and controlling how that structure can be manipulated. As other classes are created that derive from these classes, those classes will start to become smarter, starting with persistence of the data for individual objects.

First, though, unit tests for these classes need to be written, to assure that they have been tested, and that they can be retested on demand. Since that represents a significant shift in coding goals, and will involve some...