Who Should Read This Book


Much of this book is about choosing and using different tools to provide a satisfying software development environment. The people who do this are acting as toolsmiths for their software projects, whatever their official role is within the project. Sometimes the toolsmiths are developers; sometimes they are testers, managers, or technical leaders; sometimes they work in an IT group. Sometimes their main role is as an actual toolsmith for the project. The role of a toolsmith, whether by accident or design, is discussed further in Chapter 12.

As someone interested in this book, you probably fall into one of the following categories:


Tools, build, and release teams

The toolsmiths who implement the software development environments for projects. You have probably come across many of the issues discussed in the book, but some are new.


Developers and testers

The people who use the development environment but who want to write code, not maintain makefiles. Many developers and testers contribute to project environments, often through frustration with their current environment. This book should give you ideas for new tools and directions for your development environment.


Technical writers

Again, people who use a development environment but who want to write words, not maintain templates. Likewise, this book should give you ideas for new tools and directions for your development environment.


Managers

People who often first see long-term productivity problems with the current environment. Such longer-term issues are described in the book, as are many ideas for different tools.


System administrators/IT staff

You provide the machines for all of the above groups but often don't have the time to maintain lots of different tools for other people. Still, you have to know what project members need and want in their environments. Many of the tools described in this book can also be used for your own IT environments.



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

flylib.com © 2008-2017.
If you may any questions please contact us: flylib@qtcs.net