Practical software development techniques: tools and techniques for building enterprise software

摘要

Software hiring managers and technology recruiters are often said to complain that new college graduates possess theoretical knowledge but lack practical software skills in areas such as version control, testing, and interpreting business requirements. So where can novice software developers learn about these topics if not in their college courses? Crookshanks' book discusses these topics and provides resources for beginning software developers. The intent is to help graduates overcome their lack of practical experience and become more familiar with some standard industry practices and common tools. Nine topics are covered in separate chapters: version control, unit testing and test-driven development, refac-toring, build tools and continuous integration, debugging, development life cycles and the software development life cycle (SDLC), design patterns and architecture, software requirements, and basic structured query language (SQL).