Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Process standards

Process standards are concerned with what processes are executed against a code base towards any of several purposes. The two that are most common as separate entities are the following:

• Unit testing: Ensuring that code is tested and can be re-tested on demand, in an effort to ensure in turn that it works as expected

• Repeatable build processes: Designed so that whatever build process you use and probably the installation process as a result, is automated, error free, and repeatable on demand while requiring as little developer time to execute as possible

Taken together, these two also lead to the idea of integrating unit tests and build processes, so that, if needful or desired, a build process can ensure that its ...