What s Inside


What's Inside


Chapter 1

Describes the different activities involved in producing a piece of software; open and closed software development; and some classic situations that arise when developing software products.


Chapter 2

Describes the different areas of software development: SCM (software configuration management), building software, testing, tracking bugs, writing documentation, releasing products, and maintenance.


Chapter 3

Discusses the concepts such as integration and automation that are used throughout a development environment. Preconstructed development environments such as SourceForge are also discussed in this chapter.


Chapter 4

Discusses how to use SCM tools to keep track of different versions of files.


Chapter 5

Discusses tools for building software from source files.


Chapter 6

Discusses testing software.


Chapter 7

Describes different bug tracking tools, what to look for in them, and what to avoid.


Chapter 8

Describes some of the more common documentation tools and how they are used.


Chapter 9

Discusses the process of releasing software.


Chapter 10

Discusses the problems of maintaining your environment, and also how development environments can help with the maintenance of older software products.


Chapter 11

Discusses ways to improve communication within your project.


Chapter 12

Offers a standalone collection of observations about what a toolsmith does for a development environment, and some other decidedly nontechnical aspects of software development environments.


Appendix A

Discusses how tools scale as a project grows.


Appendix B

Lists sources of information about software tools and development environments.

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Practical Development Environments
Practical Development Environments
ISBN: 0596007965
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 150

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