25 May 2019

Writing tickets

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Software development Processes

  • Title
  • Important
  • Urgent
  • Definition of deliverables
  • Assignee
  • Estimate of effort required
  • Deadline

  • If a ticket is in a blocked state, then the reason why it is blocked should be made explicit
25 May 2019

Writing code

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Software development Processes
  • Make sure you understand what you have to implement
  • Make it work
  • Write a test for what you implemented
  • Refactor the code for reusability/code standard
  • Verify that your code passes linting and tests
  • Commit your code on a branch
  • Push to the central repository
  • Verify that CI passes
  • Create pull request
  • Annotate code to explain intent of changes
  • Always prioritize your work
  • Always work on something that is a task in a task tracking system
    • You should always be able to tell someone else what task you are working on and link them to that task
  • Always provide an agenda when you book meetings with others
  • Code changes are stored in git
  • Setup continuous integration
  • Have a testing framework
  • Use dependency management
  • Define a code standard
  • Prefer function/method typing over dynamic types
  • On every push to git
    • Code quality check
    • Code style check
    • Unit/functional/integration/system tests
      • Code coverage should be recorded during tests and a report made available
  • A project repository must have a README.md explaining how to run the project on your own computer
  • A project repository must have a RELEASING.md explaining how to release the code
  • Responsibilities are made explicit in terms of roles
  • Critical roles, such as project lead, must have a backup/shadow individual
  • Setup telemetry, alerts, profiling, logging
25 May 2019

Writing commits

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Software development Processes
  • One liner describing what changed (not period terminated)
  • A few lines describing in more details why things changed
  • GPG signed commit

  • Separate subject from body with a blank line
  • Limit the subject line to 50 characters
  • Capitalize the subject line
  • Do not end the subject line with a period
  • Use the imperative mood in the subject line
  • Wrap the body at 72 characters
  • Use the body to explain what and why vs. how