Questions tagged [development-process]
For questions relating to the process of developing software.
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Should code reviewers reproduce the problem/solution as part of the code review?
Boss in upper management is demanding to know why code reviewers are attempting to reproduce the problem & solution (in the case of defects) and solution (in the case of features) for reasons of ...
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How to untangle bounded contexts after a team ownership reorganization?
This is inspired by Eric Evans' presentation about bounded contexts when doing Domain driven design. In his presentation he presents a case where a bank has initially 2 teams that manage 2 bounded ...
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How to effectively bootstrap SQL database with millions of records, when you are almost guaranteed to make mistakes?
I am playing with a side project which, for purposes of this question, is a multi-language dictionary, including 100+ languages, each with 100k+ entries, where each entry can have 1-5+ pronunciations, ...
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Is CI/CD a myth
Perhaps because I'm primarily a coder, I don't understand the benefit of CI/CD, or any related terms such as scrum, agile, etc. In my opinion, testing can be done locally on development computer; ...
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What are the pros and cons of using cherry-pick versus merge for release management? [closed]
What are the pros and cons of using cherry-pick versus merge for release management? Background We have a dev branch, and just created a release1 branch from it. Folks will commit relevant content to ...
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What empirical evidence is there that the separation between analysis and design leads to better results than mixing them?
What scientific/empirical evidence is there that the mental separation between (business) analysis and (technical) design in software development leads to better results than considering both together?...
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How is Agile model more flexible than the Waterfall model?
I know one of the differences between Agile and Waterfall is to do with more customer and user feedback, but I'm trying to wrap my head around what makes the Agile/XP model more adaptable to change. ...
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How do you do major changes within an iterative setup?
I am part of a project that develops a software with quite a clearly defined in- and output. But the path (a chain of intermediate steps and artefacts) is not yet clear. We start with a toy-ish ...
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When team members are busy in fixing bugs what can/should their dev manager do?
We have a release cycle about three to four weeks for a new release then a bug fix sprint to make the product stable, then new features sprint to kick off another round of release cycle. What should I,...
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Managing environments in a FastAPI app using Docker
Bit of context: I'm an Economics major that somehow ended up developing an API that's becoming a whole software project, so please bear with me. So, after I got asked to add logs I noticed I should ...
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Can TDD be suitable for a small team with overlapping but not identical domain knowledge
I am trying to get a better understanding of TDD. From a quick google I've found this: In layman’s terms, Test Driven Development (TDD) is a software development practice that focuses on creating ...
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If the concept of low code/no code program is nothing new, then why do developers talking about it still get frustrated? [closed]
In the question What is "low code"?, there are many comments against it. One example: In my experience these tools are managed by business users until they've painted themselves into a ...
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Effective way to develop software on two machines (PC and Laptop) [duplicate]
When writing code on a desktop pc as well as on a laptop or other computer, is there a general recommended strategy for being able to keep the same environments set up on both machines? I use Git ...
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Should developers fix bugs in their own code? [closed]
This is more of a philosophical question. I have recently started working on a new team and I see here a pressure on developers to fix bugs in their own code. Whenever a bug is found in a feature, the ...
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EU Cyber Resilience Act - Conflicting Requirements? [closed]
As a fellow SW developer in EU, I hope that you know that there is a proposal for a new law, called Cyber Resilience Act, that will, if approved, will affect all digital products on the EU market. In ...
