Practical Development Environments
Practical Development Environments
ISBN: 0596007965
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 150
Pages: 150
Authors: Matthew Doar B.
- Practical Development Environments
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Preface
- What This Book Is About
- What This Book Is Not About
- Who Should Read This Book
- What s Inside
- Style Conventions
- Using Code Examples
- Safari Enabled
- Comments and Questions
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Section 1.1. Developing Software Products
- Section 1.2. Open and Closed Software Development
- Section 1.3. Dirty Secrets of Software Projects
- Section 1.4. What Does
- Section 1.5. A Personal Tools Quiz
- Chapter 2. Project Basics
- Section 2.1. The Parts of a Project
- Section 2.2. Software Configuration Management
- Section 2.3. Building Software
- Section 2.4. Testing Software
- Section 2.5. Tracking Bugs
- Section 2.6. Writing Documentation
- Section 2.7. Releasing Products
- Section 2.8. Maintenance
- Section 2.9. Recommended Tools
- Chapter 3. Project Concepts
- Section 3.1. Preconstructed Development Environments
- Section 3.2. Why Integration Is Helpful
- Section 3.3. Why Automation Is Vital
- Section 3.4. Automation Environments
- Section 3.5. Labeling Builds
- Section 3.6. Naming Projects and Machines
- Section 3.7. Choosing New Tools
- Section 3.8. Internationalization and Localization
- Section 3.9. Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
- Chapter 4. Software Configuration Management
- Section 4.1. Why Do I Need SCM?
- Section 4.2. What SCM Is and Is Not
- Section 4.3. Drawbacks of SCM
- Section 4.4. A Typical Day s Work with SCM
- Section 4.5. SCM Annoyances
- Section 4.6. SCM Tools
- Section 4.7. Comparison of SCM Tools
- Section 4.8. Wider Uses of SCM
- Section 4.9. Checklist
- Chapter 5. Building Software
- Section 5.1. How Software Gets Built
- Section 5.2. Build States: Virgin, Up-to-date, Changed, Interrupted, Clean
- Section 5.3. Build Dependencies
- Section 5.4. Common Build Problems
- Section 5.5. Build Tools
- Section 5.6. Comparison of Build Tools
- Section 5.7. Changing Your Build Tool
- Section 5.8. Checklist
- Chapter 6. Testing Software
- Section 6.1. Different Kinds of Tests
- Section 6.2. Why Automate Your Tests?
- Section 6.3. Evaluating Test Environments
- Section 6.4. Test Environments
- Section 6.5. Types of Test Tools
- Section 6.6. The Difficult Parts of Testing
- Section 6.7. Checklist
- Chapter 7. Tracking Bugs
- Section 7.1. Tool Requirements
- Section 7.2. Bug Tracking Tools
- Section 7.3. Bug Tracking Annoyances
- Section 7.4. Integrating with SCM Tools
- Section 7.5. Checklist
- Chapter 8. Documentation Environments
- Section 8.1. Technical Documentation
- Section 8.2. Documents and SCM
- Section 8.3. File Formats for Documentation
- Section 8.4. Documentation Environments
- Section 8.5. More File Formats
- Section 8.6. Automated Production of Documentation
- Section 8.7. Bad Ideas for Documentation
- Section 8.8. Internal Project Documentation
- Section 8.9. Checklist
- Chapter 9. Releasing Products
- Section 9.1. Overview
- Section 9.2. Before the Release
- Section 9.3. Creating the Release
- Section 9.4. Packaging Formats
- Section 9.5. Installation Tools
- Section 9.6. Installation IrritationsShip Happens
- Section 9.7. After the Release
- Section 9.8. Checklist
- Chapter 10. Maintenance
- Section 10.1. Maintaining an Environment
- Section 10.2. What Is Product Maintenance?
- Section 10.3. Product Maintenance Tasks
- Section 10.4. Product Maintenance and Development Environments
- Section 10.5. Cleaning Up Your Environment
- Section 10.6. Checklist
- Chapter 11. Project Communication
- Section 11.1. Tools for Communication
- Section 11.2. A Project Web Site
- Section 11.3. Different Areas for the Project Web Site
- Section 11.4. Creating the Web Site
- Section 11.5. Avoiding Content Rot
- Chapter 12. Politics and People
- Section 12.1. The Role of the Toolsmith
- Section 12.2. When Good Projects Go Bad
- Section 12.3. Awkward People
- Section 12.4. Twisted Communications
- Section 12.5. Commit Rights
- Section 12.6. Automation Discipline
- Section 12.7. What Do Developers Really Want?
- Section 12.8. An Upbeat Ending
- Appendix A. How Tools Scale
- Section A.1. Scaling of Compilers
- Section A.2. Scaling of Build Tools
- Appendix B. Resources
- Section B.1. Online
- Section B.2. Magazines
- Section B.3. Books
- Section B.4. Conferences
- Section B.5. University and College Courses
- Colophon
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
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- W
- X
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Practical Development Environments
ISBN: 0596007965
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 150
Pages: 150
Authors: Matthew Doar B.