Questions tagged [development-methodologies]
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What is "vibe coding" and what are the strong points of this methodology?
A topic that recently started appearing on my socials in programming-related circles was "vibe coding". Based on the context, it appeared to be some sort of emergent methodology to write ...
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Can access modifiers be completely replaced with programming to interfaces?
If we program to interfaces various parts of the implementation can be effectively hidden. We can define multiple interfaces for a single implementation and use them as needed, instead of 4 fixed ...
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Is there a better name for "Poison Agile"? [closed]
We have been continually facing this challenge during the last year. Upper IT management wants us to use Agile Methodology internally (development team) while the external client refuses to do so and ...
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How can I favor quick (and dirty) over clean (and slow) in practice?
Preface, TL;DR
This question is about the implied tradeoff between the speed of development and the quality of code.
I am looking for methodologies which can be followed in order to optimize ...
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How to avoid messy variable dependencies for ease of testing in Node?
I couldn't decide if the question belongs on Stack Overflow, but I went with SE Stack Exchange for the higher quality, broader answers. Bare with me.
Examples are in Node but I guess applies to a ...
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ASPICE assessment: detail of test logs
The "VDA Automotive SPICE Guidelines" (excerpts: https://vda-qmc.de/fileadmin/redakteur/Software/Automotive_SPICE/Veroeffentlichungen/VDA_Guideline_Rules_and_Recommendations_2017.xlsx) tells ...
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How to improve the design of the code using tools (e.g. git)?
There is a bunch of books that state principles about good code (SOLID, DRY, Design patterns etc.) Those principles are solutions to some problems. An application of those principles could go like ...
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How does Lean both "decide as late as possible" and "deliver as fast as possible"?
I'm learning about various software development methodologies, and reading about Lean hasn't clarified what sounds like two contradictory principles:
Decide as late as possible
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What is Disciplined Agile Delivery in a real software development context?
I recognise that this may seem like a basic or easily Googled question, but I've been struggling to make sense of the various resources that describe what DAD is. The Wikipedia article is sparse on ...
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Which methodologies use waterfall strategy and which use incremental strategy?
I know difference between waterfall and incremental strategies. But I'm somewhat confused because I see that there are methodologies which use incremental or iterative approach but I cannot see any ...
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What is the origin of TDD?
I have seen people point me to many different "origins" of TDD. Some will point me to Kent Beck's rediscovery in the late 1990s with XP. Others will mention the 1960s best practice of annotating the ...
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How should I unit-test trivial one-liners (if at all)?
I've written this set of convenience functions which give nicer names to certain trivial one-line computations. The thing is, I don't feel I can write a test for any of them; anything I write is just "...
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What are the criterion to understand if someone used TDD?
I'm approaching the TDD methodology for software development, reading guides and writing simple applications, because a client of my company wants a software and asked to develop it using TDD ...
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Are agile (and other software development process/methodologies) really bad for architecture and design?
I was wandering around google and saw a paper in which the author says in introduction that Agile methodologies, (in my own word) does not put enough emphasis on software architecture and design...
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How do I encourage ops to participate in a devops team?
I work in a traditional software development environment. A team of developers work on a product in 2-4 week Sprints and then hand the results over to an operations team to be deployed and managed. ...
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