Subj : Re: Tools for software-developement
To   : comp.programming
From : Christof =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6hler?=
Date : Sat Oct 08 2005 02:41 am

Jonathan Bartlett schrieb:

> Christof Köhler wrote:
>
> > - corporate planning and scheduling (e.g. resource planing ERP)
>
> I've never seen any such thing used successfully.

Sure there can occur problems by using such Software but i guess in an
professional development-team they will be found. For example also to see, if
an additional employee is needed.

> > - development (incl. IDE and VCS)
>
> cvs
> emacs
> make
>
> > - groupware for (team-) internal communication and todo-list
>
> bugzill
> sourceforge
>
> > - quality management (e.g. bugtracking, issuetracking, tech.
> > documentation)
>
> same as above
> documentation -
> javadoc
> DocBook
> quality management -
> JUnit (I believe the generic product is called nUnit)
>
> > - external relations (customer and partner relationship CRM etc.)
>
> I usually use people for this.  Then they are plugged into the groupware
> system.
>
> > As far as i found out it seams to be quite common to use a combination
> > of different tools to fulfil the above points.

I don't know but i demur that the above mentioned tools work well together in
any combination.

Perhaps you could suggest a combination that works fine or fulfills major
parts of the demands of a programmer-team? Combinations of tools in an
software development-team is what i'm looking for.


> Schedules are essentially meaningless for development.

Perhaps scheduling is not the most important part of what i wanted to
describe. The planning in general and dividing up the development process
into parts and tangible tasks. I think this could be done and is being done
by (or better: with help of) softwaretools.

Of course it is not easy to find a solution for all tasks in a software
company / team. For quality assurance it could be useful and especially if
you want to get a quality certificate. You will need a well organized and
documented workflow.

Thanks for your help,
Chris

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