Questions tagged [sdlc]
Questions about the Software Development Life Cycle (i.e. activities of the software development process, not necessarily related to a specific methodology).
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Best practice when working with code that uses current date and time
All programming languages have some method of referencing the current date and time. Examples...
now()
sysdate
DateTime.Now()
current_timestamp
Get-Date
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How to deal with outdated PowerShell and Azure PS in Azure Automation?
Azure Automation is a service for running scripts in the cloud, intended for the automation of administration tasks. While using it, I came across strangely outdated technologies being used under the ...
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Should Acceptance Criteria be mapped to unit tests?
My organisation is adapting a new SDLC process, and a part of this is to force engineers to map acceptance criteria (AC) to unit tests written for each user story in the pull request (PR).
To satisfy ...
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Combination of SDLC models [closed]
I have a problem where our current SDLC model is the V-model which is great for its verification/validation of all phases, but lacks the support for iterations.
Spiral model on the other hand has ...
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The advice I've found is to use LTS tools for work, instead can start on a new version if I know the next LTS will come out before project completion? [closed]
I've had this idea because I've recently had to upgrade a large enterprise project (due to security vulnerabilities) that was completed and not touched for years before I joined, and both the backend (...
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In terms of Software Engineering, can GitHub be Agile? [closed]
I know this question might sound stupid to many, but - in terms of rigorous IEEE definitions - can we say that GitHub allows some kind of Software Life Cycle or some management paradigm in particular?
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Why are several versions in production a key to choose GitFlow over GitHub flow?
I've seen in many places, one of them here (and also in the guiding questions of GitVersion) that, when coming to determine whether or not to use GitFlow, one key consideration is whether or not I ...
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Should I be enforcing lint rules on feature branches?
I am working on a project and I typically setup precompile git hooks for things like linting and testing. I recently had some consultants we use complain about requiring lint on every commit. Their ...
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What’s the difference between incremental and throw-away prototyping?
As far as I know, throw-away prototyping involves creation of prototypes in iterations where each prototype is discarded after one iteration. For incremental prototyping, the resources I referred to ...
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Difference between a Software Requirement, a Feature and an Objective
I'm working on my first ever software project. Being the only one working on it, I'm making the work breakdown structure and I know requirement gathering is an important phase in the development ...
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What does it mean to implement a development framework?
I've seen this in the context of Microsofts SDL (Secure Development Lifecycle).
Is it just those 12 practices and if the team follows those, you can say you implemented them? Are there any "hard&...
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TDD - Make the test work quickly, committing whatever sins necessary in process
Red-Green-Refactor
Green stage says, Make the test work quickly, committing whatever sins necessary in process
Having an idea of writing a test & make it work quickly, does not look intuitive ...
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What is the impact of Software Architecture on Requirement Analysis? [closed]
Write the impact of software architecture on Requirement Analysis
I was given the above question in my assignment. I have studied about Software Architecture and Requirement Analysis but I'm still ...
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SDLC models example? [closed]
What the different types of SDLC models and in which systems are they most suitable for?
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what is the job of Design Phase of SDLC?
I am confused, from what i have read the design phase has nothing to do with how the software looks like and its about how it should be build in the next phase which is the developement phase?
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