As a software engineer, i feel overwhelming with the software development process. Although, it's been more than decades to learn about it and plus my doctoral degree is in software engineering. i don't have any confidence that our software will have less bugs, better performance, and stable architecture. This is because several reasons such as:
requirements changes
lack of better architecture (chaos architecture)
untested software
So my real question is how we create better software and eliminating that problem. Let's think simple solution about this:
Requirements changes --> unavoidable --> we should take care the changes by giving our customer chance to change as long as they pay
Lack of better architecture --> can be avoided --> we should create a standard platform in the team and the architect should maintain the document so it should up to date
Untested software --> can be avoided --> we can create a standard process to make sure the software is tested and the bugs is eliminated.
Requirements Changes
the way to improve the requirement process is by
Creating a series workshop / meeting session to improve the requirement visibility
Managing clear documentation about the requirement and the requirement changes.
Tracking the changes about the requirement and the requirement changes.
So what tool do you have for these:
Azure DevOps
Microsoft Planner
Microsoft OneNote
You can learn further here Manage requirements, Agile methods - Azure DevOps | Microsoft Docs
Lack of Better Architecture
The way to improve better architecture are:
Evaluate the architecture with the architecture best practices
Learning the new technology that can fulfill you architectural need
Implement standardization of your platform and architecture task
So what tool do you have for these:
Visual Studio 2022 or later to check the code map, and code analysis
Visio or PowerPoint to create and propose your architecture work
Azure WIKI to document your architecture
You can learn further about the architecting here
Visual Studio 2022 architecture feature - Architecture analysis & modeling tools - Visual Studio (Windows) | Microsoft Docs
Architecture Center - Azure Architecture Center - Azure Architecture Center | Microsoft Docs
Untested Software
The way to improve your software quality are:
Regular testing. For example, do software testing for each iteration
Creating your testing script. For example, you can create manual testing on Azure DevOps or automated testing with Visual Studio
Get Feedback from customer. Do feedback session with the client for each iteration.
So what tool do you have for these:
Visual Studio unit testing and testing feature
Azure DevOps testing feature
Microsoft Teams for documenting your meeting
You can learn further about the testing here
Unit test tools - Visual Studio (Windows) | Microsoft Docs
What is Azure Test Plans? Manual, exploratory, and automated test tools. - Azure Test Plans | Microsoft Docs
Deployment is an important step in an ALM. Building smooth and good experience in installation will make the user happy and the application lifecycle management will be better. In .NET development application, the software distribution can be done two ways which are click once deployment and MSI installer. For the MSI Installer you might need to set dependency such as .NET Framework, Crystal Report, and others.
Unfortunately, not the entire redistributable is ready to download in Microsoft side. You can download The SQL Compact 4 and Sync Framework here.
Having confused with deployment option for your Client Application. In this article, it shows you that the .NET Client App has many option to deploy and to package. You can read and download the article in Bahasa Indonesia below
You can also read this article here online
Ciao, @ridife