Regardless of the size of the project, it is important to have a good organizational plan to make it easier to work with the project. As they say, failing to plan is planning to fail. It is important to understand how your files will be organized both logically as well as physically. Additionally, if you…
The existence of a process is no guarantee that the software will be delivered on time, meet the needs of the customer, or be of long-term quality. Process patterns must be coupled with Software Engineering practice (Part 2 of the textbook) There are several methods to assess software: Standard CMMI Assessment Method for Process Improvement…
Every software team will experience some sort of problem as they move through the system. These may be technical issues, issues with working with other departments, etc. A Process Pattern describes a process related problem that is encountered during software engineering work, identifies the environment in which the problem occurs, and suggests one or more…
Each software engineering action (Communication, Planning, Modeling, etc) can be represented by a task set, or series of tasks to do to complete the action. Depending upon the size of the project, and the needs of the project, the number of task could vary. When doing initial communication, a small project with a single stakeholder…
A Process is defined as a collection of work activities, actions, and tasks. We previously talked about this a Process Framework and Umbrella Activities. What we’ve not looked at so far is the process flow. That is how we move from one section to another under the framework. In a Linear Process Flow you move…
Web Server Hardware Depending upon your website and the resources it will need, you may need a single low performance box as a web server, multiple clusters of physical devices, or something in between the two extremes. Companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. have multiple server farms spread out all over the world to make…
Everyone has their myths that they believe when it comes to software development. Here we look at some of these myths and determine what are some of the best/worst of them. (And yes, I’ve actually heard people say most of these, and then some.) Management Myths These are myths that managers believe and tell people:…
While the Quicksort is relatively fast, O(nlog(n)) in terms of speed on average, a lot of programmers fear it because they don’t like, understand, or maybe even know about recursion. Recursion is the process of a function calling itself. There is usually a slight penalty for recursion as each function call is slower than if…
