Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Summary

There are a fair few factors that can affect how code is written and managed, even before the first line of code is written. Each of them can have some impact on how smoothly a development effort progresses, or on how successful that effort is. Fortunately, there are a lot of options, and a fair amount of flexibility in making the decisions that determine which of them are in play, and how, even assuming that some team or managerial-level policies don't dictate them.

Several of the decisions concerning these items for the hms_sys project have been noted, but since the next chapter starts on that development for real, they might be worth calling out once more:

• Code will be written using either Geany or LiClipse as the IDE. They both ...