Construction Practice – Type of Software Egineering practice
Filed Under Coding, Engineering, Process, Software | Posted on October 20, 2009
The construction activity encompasses a set of coding and testing tasks that lead to operational software that is ready for delivery to the customer or end-user. A set of fundamental principles and concepts are applicable to coding and testing. 1. Coding principles : A number of fundamental principles that can be stated are : – [...]
Modeling Practices – Type of Software Engineering Practice
Filed Under Engineering, Model, Process, Software | Posted on October 20, 2009
We create models to gain a better understanding of the actual entity to be built. If the entity is a physical thing, we can build a model that is identical in form and shape but smaller in scale. However, when the entity is a software, a model is created that is capable of representing the [...]
Agile Software Development
Filed Under Agile, Engineering, Process, Software | Posted on October 15, 2009
Agile Software development is about fast delivery of software with more ease of development. Classically, “Agile software development is a style of software development that emphasizes customer satisfaction through continuous delivery of functional software”. Key Features of Agile Software Development: – Iterative: Entire application is distributed in incremental units called as iteration. Development time of [...]
Overview of Extreme Programming (XP)
Filed Under Agile, Engineering, Extreme Programming, Process, Software | Posted on October 15, 2009
Extreme Programming (XP) is a software engineering methodology which is intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements. As a type of agile software development, it advocates frequent “releases” in short development cycles (timeboxing), which is intended to improve productivity and introduce checkpoints where new customer requirements can be adopted. XP utilizes [...]
