My notes on Advanced-Software-Development
Here are some basic definitions and abbreviations that are useful for studying.
Software Engineering - The Application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software.
Milestone - Checkpoints throughout the life of a project. Identify when one or multiple groups of activities have been completed thus implying that a notable point has been reached in the project.
Deliverable - Measurable and tangible outcome of the project. Developed by project team members in alignment with the goals of the project.
Gold-plating - adding shiny new features that aren’t necessary
Scope Creep - uncontrolled growth in scope after project begins
Crunch - Extended working hours
Software Entropy - Measure of code complexity
Yak Shaving - Endless series of small tasks before next big milestone
Artefacts - (belong in a museum) byproduct of the development process
Timescale - the time allowed for or taken by a process/task
User Stories - stories describing each requirement - like use cases but lighter
Refactoring - change internal code structure so it is easier to understand and cheaper to change, without modifying behaviour of program
Software Architecture - set of principal design decisions about software systems
Architecture Description - artefacts to express and document architectures.
High Cohesion - degree of intra-class communication
Low Coupling - degree of inter-class communication
Domain Specific Software Architecture (DSSA) - idea that for any given business, there will be existing architectures relevant to that business’s domain which can be used to build an architecture tailored for that business
Vertical architecture - layered, each layer uses previous layer, each layer has its own function
Horizontal architecture - multi-tiered, can have aspects of application layer across all layers/tiers
| Contraction | Definition |
|---|---|
| SDLC | Software Development Life Cycle |
| UP | Unified Process |
| PERT | Program Evaluation and Review Technique |
| RDD | Responsibility Driven Development |
| GRASP | General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns |