Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Development Tools and Best Practices

Before starting on the actual development of hms_sys, there are several decisions that need to be made. In a real-world scenario, some (maybe all) of these decisions might be made at a policy level, either by the development team or maybe by management above the team. Some, such as the IDE/code editor program, might be an individual decision by each individual team member; so long as there are no conflicts between different developers' choices, or any issues raised as a result, there's nothing wrong with that. On the other hand, having some consistency isn't a bad thing either; that way, every team member knows what to expect when they're working on code that someone else on the team has touched.

These ...