For questions relating to the process of developing software.
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NetBeans project with remote sources - auto-detect changes in remote codebase
I am trying to streamline my workflow in a new job, as it's a slightly different setup to what I'm used to. My job is full-stack web app development, using PHP and JavaScript. I use NetBeans as my IDE....
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Do we need a separated branch for fixing bugs raised during the testing phase?
Before release a new version of the software, which is a web application, my company creates a release branch. The QA team tests that branch and reports some issues. Should developers commit the ...
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How do we solve the perceptual problems that story points can cause?
I worked in many companies, and whenever the dev process is tracked by the ticket system, there is a big related issue: quality and perception.
When a developer finished 12 points, he or she will be ...
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Is this the correct forum/community in which to ask questions on style and procedure, rather then specific questions begging as specific answer? [migrated]
I would like to gather opinions on matters of style, organization, and procedure related to software development. As an example, I'm looking for the right place to ask something like the following:
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MSYS2 and independent development? [on hold]
I've been looking for a usable package management/dependency manager on Windows, and I think that MSYS2 looks like a great cross-platform package manager right now. However, I feel that I can't trust ...
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Feature-based Deployment with Multiple Environments
My team is currently using Visual Studio Team Services for source control (TFS), building (triggered on check-in), and deploying (using VSTS Release Management).
We have four environments (Dev, QA, ...
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IDE Signatures & Identifying IDE Software
I'm trying to decide whether to change IDEs as I've read promising things about both NetBeans and IntelliJ, but I have two interrelated (perhaps dumb) questions:
Is there any difference in the final ...
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What type of architecture style does the MEAN stack most resemble?
What type of software architecture style does the MEAN stack most resemble?
I am thinking Client/ Server because of the way messages are communicated between the different modules in both.
However, ...
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How can we improve our build process?
The company I work at has a (in my opinion) slow build process. We use TFS, and checking in code takes several hours. It goes like this:
(Assuming change is made and code review has been approved)
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How to deal with a project with long intervals between new development?
I have multiple projects that I am involved in, and for one of those I have worked for 2 years and delivered a piece of software that is being used in production at customer site.
Everything went ...
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Can a system be implemented with a waterfall process and then be implemented using a phased approach into a organisation?
Is the building process such as waterfall or agile used to implement a system, linked to the way an enterprise system is rolled out in an organisation?
As an example: A system is developed using an ...
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constraints in developing software
According to this
As opposed to the constraints in other kinds of engineering, where
the constraints of what you can build are the constraints of physical
systems, the constraints imposed in ...
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Azure storage local development
I want to try a whole bunch of azure services in my project. Now I facing a design problem for the development cycle. I want to test everything local and only it works I want to push it do azure. My ...
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When does bugfixing become overkill, if ever?
Imagine you are creating a video player in JavaScript. This video player loops the user's video repeatedly using a recursive function and, because of that, the browser will trigger a too much ...
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Best choice of SDLC
I am studying SDLC models from a book. While attempting the exercise questions, I found these questions:
What is the best choice among process models to address tight schedules and cost of the ...
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What processes/activities will improve developer interaction and stop breakages?
We had a situation in which a senior developer decided to change some code thinking it would be for the best, which it is, but we still had some problems during that period. Some functionalities broke ...
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Supporting SOAP Web Services APIs
I am creating a software for B2B which targets all kinds of large size companies. It will integrate with existing softwares of companies (CRM and ERP systems). I want to expose my API via REST. ...
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Setting up development environment in micro-services architecture
We are moving towards developing a web app in a micro-services architecture.
We thought about running the services behind a API gateway that will handle authentication and will proxy the requests to ...
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Requirements with units in Software Design Document?
I am new to the software design lifecycle and the various processes that it consists of. I was taught/told recently that units should not be included in the SDD because the software cannot "test" ...
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In c# how do people make complex functions
Hi I'm working on a c# MVC code first project. I've started the project and have created the Models, database frontend etc.
Now my attention has come to writing something that can read an excel ...
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What is wrong with a standard MVC project?
I am discussing the architecture for a new project with some colleagues. The project is relatively small and can be considered as a 'normal' crud web application.
Everybody has come up with an ...
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Releasing an unfinished Android app?
I plan to release my very first app on Google Play Store but I am still a bit confused on the concept of releasing software. I tried to read a few articles online about the life cycle of software ...
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Difference between ASP.NET page and control
I currently work inside a system that any new tools get created as an ASP.NET custom server-side control, rather than a Forms or MVC page. One of my most recent projects is to convert a Forms page ...
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Are “Hard to find bugs” the responsibility of the developer or the tester?
May be it seems an open question (or non-constructive according to stackoverflow standards) .... but I am asking if there's something rigid according to Software process standards addressing this ...
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New project development & git guidlines and hints [closed]
We are two senior students and we want to develop an app.
Although we dont have experience on using git & github.
Our app will consist of a server handling requests with a mongoDB database. The ...
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How to estimate bug fixes?
How can you actually determine the size of fixing something which is broken in an unknown way? I tell people in my classes I only know two sizes for defect fixes: 1) Trivial because I already know ...
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Ideas to improve our development and deployment process?
In the interest of continuous improvement I'm interested in finding ways to improve our software development process. There are a lot of articles out there which define a set of workflows, but all of ...
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Using Pull Requests with different commits
For a new project we try to set up the development process and the intention is to have a simple, pragmatic process. We use Atlassian Stash with Git in our company.
We came up with the following ...
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caveats while using one server as staging site for many projects?
EDIT: I realize this sounds like I am describing a development server, but I am actually hoping to test the project(s) on a node that is "as close to production" as possible. Contrast this with my ...
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Why use pull requests instead of merging
What is the advantage of using pull requests instead of simply merging a branch into master without one? Particularly on a team where all developers have full access to master.
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Early development stage
This might be a silly question... from somebody looking to make his programming more structured/less chaotic.
I would like to develop an application (web and mobile) just for fun/for myself. Before ...
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Multiline formatting of long function signatures/calls [closed]
Let's say you have a signature like so:
public void MyFooBar(IExtraSuperLongTypeName param1, TypeA param2 ISomeotherReallyLongTypeName param3, TypeB param4, TypeC param5)
Formatting in on one line ...
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Amount of routine work in software development and its effect on estimation
I am convinced that the amount of routine work in software development is - and should be - relatively small, if not negligible, and that this is the fundamental problem of software estimation.
Let ...
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How to split development / staging / production versions of an application
I'm facing a situation that does not seem to have a clear solution to it, which leads me to believe I'm actually doing something wrong. Here I am seeking advice once again.
To rapidly let you ...
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Creating a software development process for teams that don't have one
My workplace has several groups that have little to no software development process. They use source control, and lightly use an issue tracking system, depending on the project. Teams are not ...
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Is fixed-scope, fixed-time really impossible to deliver in agile? Or what else use?
I have been reading some similar questions here but they are not the same. The project we have inherited from our partner has fixed scope and a fixed deadline to deliver. We are now thinking about way ...
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Using gerrit(-like) tool to ensure high bus-factor
A nice side-effect of using reviews is that it will ensure that other programmers have some knowledge of the code that is being merged to the project. The more that reviews changes to the project the ...
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Recommended strategy for changing javascript UI table library?
tl;dr - On an existing angularjs grid library, am moving to another.
Is it better to wipe out as much code as possible and in a sense code from scratch to the same featureset, or work around what's ...
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Advantages of closing abandoned bugs
I noticed Wine has a policy:
Why has my bug been marked as ABANDONED?
A bug report is marked as abandoned after a long period of inactivity.
You will have been asked to update the current ...
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How can I get things right at the beginning of a software project? [closed]
I am programmer with 1 year experience, recently I realized I seldom start a project correctly (most of my side project), normally the project cycle goes like
Start with a few use-cases
Start coding
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What does it mean to “write code for patterns in problems” and not “for instances”?
I was reading this post on what it takes to become an elite developer: http://www.aaronstannard.com/what-do-you-need-to-become-an-elite-developer/
It says: "Write code for patterns, not specific ...
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What do you do when code review is just too hard?
OK so a lot of code review is fairly routine. But occasionally there are changes that broadly impact existing complex, fragile code. In this situation, the amount of time it would take to verify the ...
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What does the Kruchten 4+1 Process View implementation look like using sequence or activity diagrams?
Having read about the 4+1 Kruchten, I am required to document a system architecture using this concept. Instead of the notations proposed by Philippe Kruchten, we decided to go with UML instead. I am ...
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Techniques for ensuring cross-platform compatibility (C++)?
I was finishing one of my earliest C++ projects which is (according to the framework) supposed to be cross-platform. I developed the project fully in Windows and Visual Studio, thinking that since the ...
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What can I do to prevent frequent code loss? [closed]
I program as a hobbyist. I mainly code using an online tool (a website) that allows me to write, run, share, and debug code online.
The website I use does have version control built in.
Quite ...
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Which software methodology should I follow when I do research?
I usually analyze data of experiments and although I have a general schema of steps I need to do, I might need to tweak it to the specifics of the experiments or the questions behind. I am usually ...
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Python build system
Currently our Python application is deployed like this:
Development team work on issues, commit code and create a Pull request
Pull request is integrated to Development branch
QA and Operations team ...
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Is separating design from implementation a net win?
In my experience, technical design is made more challenging when it is divorced from implementation, particularly by assigning the roles to different people, because its easy for the designer to ...
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Replace a enterprise JAVA EE enviroment with a lightweight solution
Currently I work in a company with several applications developed in Java, these applications share an "internal framework" with common task like find an employee, check user permissions, etc.
These ...
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Making minor edits elsewhere while working on a commit [duplicate]
I have a habit of constantly making minor edits to my code whenever I spot something I don't like - be it a bug or just some sloppy piece of code I see how to improve. Neurosis-Driven Development.
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