Testing details during the SDLC phases
Filed Under Requirements, Coding, Testing, Development | Posted on April 6, 2008
Details of testing requirements during broad phases of the SDLC:
REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS
Test activities that should be performed during this stage are:
• Have a clear, concise and formal statement of the requirements; this means that the requirements statement should record the information as
1. What the program must do?
2. The input and data formats?
3. The output data formats?
4. How exceptions, errors and deviations […]
What is branching ?
Filed Under Coding, Terms, Process, Development | Posted on December 27, 2007
Branching, in revision control and software configuration management, is the duplication of an object under revision control (such as a source code file, or a directory tree) in such a way that the newly created object has initially the same contents as the version branched off from, and (more importantly) development (creation of new versions) […]
Problems in trying to implement coding standards
Filed Under Standards, Coding, Document, Process, Software | Posted on October 13, 2007
Coding standards sound like the best thing possible; they help in getting uniformity, they enable easy transition, they promote easy code review and preparation of documents such as SDK’s, and so on. So why would you not be able to get coding standards implemented across development teams ?
Mostly it is due to individuality. Most developers […]
Coding standards for different languages
Filed Under Coding, Standards, Document, Process, Development, Software | Posted on October 13, 2007
Nowadays code can be written in a number of different platforms and architectures. For example, earlier, you would have primarily C and C++ as the different languages in which code was written for a majority of applications, but now there are so many different languages and platforms that the same coding standards cannot be used […]
Software coding standards - what, and why !!
Filed Under Document, Benefits, Coding, Techniques, Improvement, Development, Terms, Software | Posted on October 13, 2007
What is source code ?
Source code is what makes the application. It is source code that gets compiled and becomes the software application that you see. In computer science, source code (commonly just source or code) is any sequence of statements and/or declarations written in some human-readable computer programming language. A computer program’s source code […]
