Software Engineering Best Practices

Any software projects can be divided into following phrases: Requirement, “Design & Development”, “Unit Testing”, “Integration Testing” and “Support & Maintenance”. Due to highly complex nature of real life software projects, various set of software engineering tools are developed/purchased to facilitate understanding the requirements better, estimate more accurately, design software with good clarity, catch as many bugs as possible in “Unit Testing” phrase, catch all functional bugs in “Integration testing & Deployment” phrase, automate routine project support activities, etc. We drive into each of the software project phrases and discuss relevant tools for the phrase, we suggest step by step guide on how to build in house “software engineering” tools, as well as evaluate various “Commercial off-the-shelf”(COTS) software tools and provide recommendations based on their usability, effectiveness, cost, etc.