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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

Quality assurance and acceptance

Since the functionality this library provides is foundational—intended to be consumed by other libraries—there isn't really much in the way of public facing capabilities that could be usefully tested in a formal Quality Assurance (QA) process. If such a formal QA process were involved in this iteration, about the most that could be done would be to execute the unit test suite and verify that those tests execute without failures or errors.

Similarly, since the bulk of the stories involved in the iteration were for the benefit of developers, there would be little external acceptance needed; the fact that the various classes in the library exist and function as expected should be sufficient for acceptance of those stories:

  • As a developer, I need a common definition and functional structure to represent addresses...