Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of DevelopmentProcessNotes

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May 30, 2006, 4:46:17 PM (18 years ago)

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soujak

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+ = Development Process Notes =
+This project assumed a high didactic worth, not only in Operating System
+[wiki:doc/devel development] related matters or in C programming, but also in
+development process itself and its collaborative characterization. Right ahead,
+you will find some notes about team's conduct of development, deeply describing
+its way of development taking a look to its approach to analysis, to the applied
+techniques and to the used tools.
+
+ == Approach ==
+As you can notice while reading "Development notes", developers team appreciates
+high-level '''analysis''' of problems, in order to dominate project complexity
+and to understand the aim of specifications, and of project itself. Because of
+the risk that this kind of approach remains superficial, it must be followed by
+a in-depth analysis, with the purpose to structure internal mechanisms, allowing
+insertion of little code [wiki:doc/devel#a2.Internalfunctionstricks hacks].
+Only this kind of dual analysis allow a final and complete '''understanding'''.
+Such duality has been also applied in team planning, clearly separating design
+time and implementation time, '''discussion''' one and coding one in order to
+avoid wastes in terms of time and psychic resources.
+
+ == Strategies ==
+After knowing of Xtreme Programming methodologies (thanks to SW Engineering
+course), we dared trying to apply its paradigm onto our development process, in
+order to enjoy its benefits. As mentioned above, we started each day with a
+stand-up meeting for planning activities, but we also learned how to code
+together, with only one person at keyboard, or how to write code according to
+previously agreed standards.
+
+ == Collaborative Tools ==
+Collaborative work is not easy, because of all troubles originated from
+synchronization matters among developers. That is the reason of our experiencing
+new tools, aimed to help us in such difficult jobs.
+
+One of these is `subversion` a versioning substsyem, which trace every changes
+to the code and offer a set of features that makes merging/branching operations
+easier. In addition to this, and according to XP teaching, we took advantage from
+subversion's tagging utility for frequently releasing "stable" sub-version.
+[[BR]]
+Our public subversion repository is available at [svn://svn.xt3.it/var/svn/kaya].
+
+Another usefull tool is a web-based software project management: `trac`.
+It offers a complete system, including an enhanced wiki, where we wrote (and will
+write) kaya project documentation, an issue tracking system based on tickets, and
+others features favoring planning.
+[[BR]]
+trac web interface for this project is online (we hope!) at [svn://trac.xt3.it/kaya].
+
+As you can see both services are proudly hosted by [http://www.xt3.it xt3.it], an experimental team
+composed by two of us.