September 2005
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
10h 9m
English
Content preview from Practical Development EnvironmentsBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Preface
A good technical environment for developing your software can make or break a project, or even a company. What goes into a good technical development environment? This book contains helpful answers to that question and describes some of the current tools that can help provide a good software development environment. Areas covered include: version control, build tools, testing tools, bug tracking systems, documentation, release, and maintenance.
What This Book Is About
A development environment is the whole collection of tools that people use to create software, not just a few tools that are specific to a particular programming language. Examples of these tools are version control tools such as CVS, build tools such as make, and bug tracking tools such as Bugzilla. Practical development environments are the environments that are really used by successful projects, and are consequently reused for many different projects. Just as there is a wide range of productivity for different programmers, there is a wide range of productivity for different projects, and that’s often due to differences in development environments.
This book is a guide—a collection of advice about real development environments. Each of the core chapters considers a different kind of tool: tools for tracking versions of files, build tools, testing tools, bug tracking tools, and tools for creating documentation. Each chapter discusses what you should look for in each kind of tool and what to avoid, and also describes ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.