[clug] Essential Software Practices

[#endgame]

You might find the Joel test (
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html ) to be a
good source of ideas here.

-- Jack

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Francis Markham <fmarkham at gmail.com> wrote:
> Two things that quickly come to mind:
> * Bug tracking database
> * Automatable builds
>
> -F
>
> 2009/3/1 steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au>:
>> A little off topic for this list, but it goes to the heart of FOSS & its
>> production.
>>
>> I was wondering what others viewed as Essential Software Practices.
>> [Any books/websites on the subject?]
>>
>> By *Practices*, I mean things you do (computer assisted or not),
>> rather than *Processes* which create 'deliverables' like Specifications,
>> Requirements, Reports, ...
>>
>> [my apologies is there is standard terminology & diff terms]
>>
>> What I've come up with:
>>
>>  - Repository {findable code, user ident, Name Space control}
>>  - Version Control {auth, log, diffs, rollback}
>>  - Traceability {who changed what, why is a feature present}
>>  - Testing {defined repeatable tests}
>>
>> Admittedly the Repo is a 'virtual thing', but setting them up and using
>> them is a 'practice'. They support Versioning and the two are integrated
>> in 'products' like Subversion and CVS.
>>
>> -------
>>
>> This question came up when I was helping a friend with an Excel
>> spreadsheet. It's a real programming environment, but lacks so many
>> essentials for good programming its not funny
>> A really awful experience :-(
>>
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>>
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