Software Development Best Practices

The key to quality is process, process, process!!!

So any aspect of project depends on its success,
the maturity of process behind it.

For a software development then this can be
traced from requirements gathering, reviewing
functional specifications, design review, implementation,
integration and final release.


Documentation:
Requirements Review against checklist with a cross functional team.

Software Functional Specification Review

Software Design Specification Review

Software Architecture Review
BredMeyer's resources for software architects


Software Model Check

Unit Tests Review and Unit-Testing

Dev-Test Specification Review
Rotate team members within a project to bring new mind for a module.


Software Design
Good layered and clear API design.

Software Architecture:
Need a good software architecture to come up with a maintainable system.


The Implementation Process
During the implementation phase it is very important to have a
SCM (software configuration management) and bug tracking system in
place.

Without a SCM process, large development teams can often loose time
in determining and reverting to a working code as the development
proceeds in phases.

A bug tracking system helps in quantifying the defects that are known
and helps to monitor its closure.