For questions relating to the process of developing software.
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How to effectively put code live
What are the general strategies to employ when attempting to ensure that a module of code will function correctly on the live system? A common problem we have at our software house is that we ...
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Justifying deficiencies in design
I would like some input on how to handle clients and third party vendors that ask me about the deficiencies in my design.
For example. It turns out I need a data field in a webservices response. This ...
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Debugging Browser Extensions
Background
I'm currently in a company involved with developing a cross-browser extension. The extension injects code into a web page and shows a 'widget'. There is also a browser button involved.
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Converting Business Process Maps into Software
I am fairly new to web application development. I have defined my problem domain through talking to various stakeholders and putting a process map together - basically a flow chart showing the ...
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How to start a development project when there are too many potential stakeholders
I've just taken on a new job at a college as (the sole) Web application developer.
The college has a number of disparate but all pretty badly coded legacy systems. Mostly built in PHP they deal with ...
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Strategies for using a code metric evaluation tool
Should code quality metric evaluation tools like Sonar be integrated with IDE for running local analysis or should they be a part of the build process (like integrated with maven) for continuous ...
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What sort of questions drive the decision as to whether similar code is separate or common?
I have come across the following problem many times in various guises in my programming career. As a simple example, consider the following:
Let's say there is a method (B) that could differ ...
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What are general best practices for plugin/extension development? [closed]
I need to correlate requirements for a plugin/extension of an application with development best practices.
I thought there might be best practice advice that applies to plugins and extensions ...
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System evolution approach: gradual or cataclysmic?
When working on established systems, I've often found ways to improve a user interface to maximize user efficiency (example: legacy app maintenance screen doesn't allow multi-line operations where ...
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Should developers be worried about automation that make them redundant eventually? [closed]
Should developers be worried about possible automation happening in their projects that might make them redundant ? I never particularly worried about this myself but I have seen many developers ...
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What is Development Environment? e.g. Vagrant
By luck i landed on this website http://www.vagrantup.com/
It is says, that software is for development environment.
My question is what exactly definition for development environment (in this case ...
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program to format db table information into fixed-width font grid [closed]
Is there any online software that can take sample information in the form of a database table and put it into a visualization in the form of
+----+---------------+
| id | name |
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Where does the reporting function fit into Enterprise Software development Best Practices
At my company, I develop and maintain all the operational reporting used by management to run the business. There is no reporting position on the application development team. I've taken it upon ...
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How to deal with too much pragmatism in the project?
My team and I took over a medium sized codebase over a year ago when the previous tech lead left the company. Originating from the lack of man power I fear we favored pragmatic solutions over best ...
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Is BDD scalable for medium to large projects?
In every Website you read about BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) you find a very simple nice example showing you how obvious and easy is it to define your requirements. But trying to implement this ...
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1answer
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Combining KanBan in a SCRUM process
Does anybody have an experience in combining KanBan in SCRUM, could this work, would this make sence or would it be an overdesign?
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Setting up a development standardization guide for in-house/vendor programmers
I was recently hired by a large multi-national corporation to head up mobile development for their sales operation/support team. In a company of close to 10,000 people I am, at least in the America's, ...
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How to convince my teammates to follow some basic rules
I have a problem with my teammates. Long story short: We are three students working at a project for a competition. The project consists of 2 separate applications: one for Windows (that I develop) ...
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Proper Git setup between designers and developers?
Basically we now have 2 developers for an iOS project, 2 developers for an Android project and 1 designer doing designs for both projects.
Right now, the way we exchange designs and images is through ...
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At what stage of a project should documentation be done?
I was assigned to fix some issues in a PHP project. Later on, I was asked to implement some new features, which I did. The project neither uses any framework nor does it use OOP. It lacks a proper ...
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Is there an established software taxonomy that's based on the type of software?
I'm researching engineering approaches to software development based on the type of software, for example:
Custom one-off software (e.g. space shuttle software)
Whitebox application requiring ...
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Formal term to web-ify a piece of existing software or program or a module?
There is a software we run as a windows service. Its currently not designed to take a huge load. So we kind of need this service to be hosted over http so that multiple clients can make use of it. Its ...
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should you always enter a bug in a bug tracking system [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should developers enter bugs into the bug tracking system?
Should I log trivial fixes?
For a project I'll be doing in school soon I will be working with 6 other ...
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What is Developer Anarchy?
I've been reading about Developer (or Programmer) Anarchy, which seems to be billed as a post-Agile development methodology. I found a few resources on it (1, 2) but it doesn't seem to be a lot out ...
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Developing with confidence without a real development environment
I've recently been hired for a project that involves working with and around several third-party "enterprise" systems. Due to what I imagine would be the astronomical cost and effort required to build ...
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Is Agile a variant of RAD?
Wikipedia says that Agile is a type of "RAD" which I guess is incorrect. From what I know, Agile was developed becasue RAD itself was not that sucessfull in 90'S (too rigid for changes).
Or am I ...
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How should I organize bugs in redmine?
I'm helping to reogranize several redmine projects; although I have a lot of experience with issue tracking systems, I've never worked with redmine before.
What is the best way to organize Issues in ...
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Looking for the better way to combine deep architecture refactoring with feature based development
Problem statement:
Given:
TFS as Source Control
Heavy desktop client application with tons of legacy code with bad or
almost absent architecture design.
Clients constantly requiring new features ...
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Can a designer start an open source project? [closed]
I appreciate you can't start an open source project with just an idea but would just a design be enough? Has anyone ever seen that done where a designer posts a design and developers join to start the ...
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How do you take into account usability and user requirements for your application?
Our team supports BackOffice application: a mix of WinForm and WPF windows. (about 80 including dialogs). Really a kind of a Swiss Army Knife. It is used by developers, tech writers, security ...
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How to identify a software development framework? [closed]
Based on what information, can we identify something as a software development framework? For example the Wikipedia article of 'software framework' claims it should include support programs, ...
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If you have the full spec done, what is left for the developer to do?
I'm working in a small company, started as a developer and coded pieces of a big system being provided with detailed specs. Over five years I moved towards analyst position. I know how existing parts ...
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What is the standard term for my role?
I'm doing work that involves writing code and managing developers in a "special projects" division of a large company. I'd like to define my role better and figure out if there's an industry standard ...
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What is development automation?
When someone refers to "Development Automation", what is it exactly?
What are some frameworks for development automation?
My boss asked me to develop a strategy for implementing such in the company ...
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How to choose a development method?
There are many academic/industrial researchs about various development methods (Scrum, XP, waterfall, ect.), telling us how to do it right and stuff. But I never saw something that suggest how to ...
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systems/software engineering design process
I just developed my first non-trivial android app. It was a complete nightmare. I came up with an idea, build the app, changed my idea, and implemented a lot of input from others on new features. All ...
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How to plan/manage multi-platform (mobile) products?
Say I've to develop an app that runs on iOS, Android and Windows 8 Mobile. Now all three platforms are technically in different program languages. The only 'reuse' that I can see is that of the ...
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When should I make the first commit to source control?
I'm never sure when a project is far enough along to first commit to source control. I tend to put off committing until the project is 'framework-complete,' and I primarily commit features from then ...
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Learning by doing (and programming by trial and error)
How do you learn a new platform/toolkit while producing working code and keeping your codebase clean?
When I know what I can do with the underlying platform and toolkit, I usually do this:
I create ...
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Expanding existing DVCS Wiki [closed]
A portion of my job is to maintain technical documentation for a rapidly expanding manufacturing company. Because it is only a portion of my job and the company's product line is expanding so ...
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Software design for non object oriented paradigm
I'm currently working on a project where I'm writing the firmware for an electronic system in C, and have been asked to produce documentation on the development/evolution of the software for the ...
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Shared Development Space
Currently the company I work in gives each developer their own development virtual machine. On this machine (Windows 7) they install the entire stack of the product (minus database) this stack is ...
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Consultant in a firm that doesn't understand the tech! [closed]
I got the job as a Consultant in a firm that has 3 other programmers. My job is to rewrite all the old system in Java, Spring etc but the staff programmers only know perl and the manager does not know ...
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Which metric/list should be used to evaluate whole software development team?
The title might be seem vague, so let me tell you a little bit history what i am trying to clarify question.
I have been hired as a consultant for a corporate's small development division. The ...
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How can I improve my skills while working on actual projects, in the absence of more experienced developers?
I'm the lead developer at a small company, working with C# and ASP.Net. Our team is small, 2-3 people, without much experience in development and design. I don't have the opportunity to learn from ...
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Are XML Comments Necessary Documentation?
I used to be a fan of requiring XML comments for documentation. I've since changed my mind for two main reasons:
Like good code, methods should be self-explanatory.
In practice, most XML ...
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Minimize useless tweaking of a numeric app
I'm developing a numeric application (nonlinear optimizer), with a zillion knobs to tweak and rising.
It's not my first foray into this domain, but this time there are even more variables in the code ...
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It's hard to judge your own product. Is there a name for this issue?
I was just talking to my partner about how hard it is to personally judge how good your product is after a while because you use it so often. You literally spend hours on your computer doing nothing ...
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Leadership does not see value in standard process for machine configuration and new developer orientation
About 3 months ago our lead web developer and designer(same person) left the company, greener pastures was the reason for leaving. Good for them I say. My problem is that his department was completely ...
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What are unique aspects of a software Lifecycle of an attack/tool on a software vulnerability?
At my local university, there is a small student computing club of about 20 students. The club has several small teams with specific areas of focus, such as mobile development, robotics, game ...
