Super Ebook

This book is for the career developer who wants to take his or her skill set and/or project to the next level. If you are a professional software developer with 3–4 years of experience looking to bring a higher level of discipline to your project, or to learn the skills that will help you transition from software engineer to technical lead, then this book is for you. The topics covered in this book will help you focus on delivering software
at a higher quality and lower cost. The book is about practical techniques and practices that will help you and your team realize those goals. Given that target audience, this book assumes a certain level of skill at reading code in one or more languages, and basic familiarity with building and testing software projects. It also assumes that you have at least a basic understanding of the software development lifecycle, and how requirements from customers become testable software projects.

What you will learn from this book

* Practical steps you can take to combine different developmental philosophies, processes, and construction techniques into a unified approach to software
* Methods for deciding which parts of a project you need to write yourself versus what you can buy or reuse
* Tools and processes you can employ to improve source code quality and maintainability
* How to create, run, organize, and measure tests, and then make them more useful to developers and testers
* Ways that programming by contract can make your code easier for developers to understand and use
* Recommended techniques for handling errors in your code that will make your application easier to debug and support

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