Software Development Methods & Practices

Common development principles

• DRY
• KISS

SOLID principles

• SOLID principles explained
  • https://stackify.com/solid-design-principles/
• Dependency injection
  • Composition root
    • Stateless object graph (utility/helper classes)
      • Your object graphs should be stateless, and runtime data should be passed through an existing object graph using method calls.
      • https://dzone.com/articles/stateful-or-stateless-classes
  • read 'Dependency Injection in .NET' by Mark Seemann

Inversion of Control (IoC) framework

• callbacks, events, dependency injection

DDD design principles

Unit & integration testing, TDD/BDD

• https://codeutopia.net/blog/2015/03/01/unit-testing-tdd-and-bdd

The Joel test

Design patterns

• Creational
  • ...
• Structural
  • ...
• Behavioural
  • ...
• Unit of Work

Code smells

Building reusable libraries/frameworks vs. an application

TDD

• read The Art of Unit Testing: with examples in C# by Roy Osherove
• Code coverage
  • https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestCoverage.html

Agile methods

• agile games

Continuous integration

• Git
  • https://github.com/erlang/otp/wiki/Writing-good-commit-messages
  • pull requests
    • https://www.atlassian.com/blog/git/written-unwritten-guide-pull-requests
  • managing dependencies
    • https://andrey.nering.com.br/2016/git-submodules-vs-subtrees/
    • submodules
      • complicates dev workflow e.g. pull request
      • https://www.atlassian.com/blog/archives/git-submodules
      • https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules
      • https://www.atlassian.com/blog/git/git-submodules-workflows-tips
      • https://codingkilledthecat.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/why-your-company-shouldnt-use-git-submodules/
    • subtrees
      • unchanged dev workflow
      • https://gist.github.com/jorotenev/76787a53107e971a7c75bcfaee64cf15
      • https://www.atlassian.com/blog/git/alternatives-to-git-submodule-git-subtree
      • https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/05/the-power-of-git-subtree/
      • https://medium.engineering/how-we-modularized-mediums-ios-codebase-8f8f26965c76
      • https://medium.com/@v/git-subtrees-a-tutorial-6ff568381844
      • http://johnatten.com/2013/03/16/managing-nested-libraries-using-the-git-subtree-merge-workflow/
        • https://makingsoftware.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/using-git-subtrees-for-repository-separation/
    • nuget packages
      • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47826395/vsts-asp-net-build-with-project-dependencies-and-git-repositories
      • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/quickstart/create-and-publish-a-package-using-visual-studio
• Bitbucket
  • https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dmx/2016/10/13/integrating-vsts-with-bitbucket/
• VS Team Services

  • https://www.appliedis.com/video-build-a-devops-cicd-pipeline-in-under-an-hour-with-vsts/

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1yU0rt6ih0&index=3&list=PLl9PFwBth8dkUs1NYMaF_FGBlPPqeePBJ

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkZ4fp34TaI

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znpUM1-z8VY

  • build

    • bower?
    • sonarqube
    • build docker image
      • docker images - docker hub / azure container registry
    • push docker image

  • release

    • deploy docker image
• GitHub, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, Packer, Terraform, Artifactory and Ansible, Puppet

Productivity & Quality

• sublime text editor
• code snippets (in VS.NET and Atom)
• prettify
• set up eslint config file - airbnb, prettier