Software testing is the process of executing an application or program with the intent of
finding software bugs. It also can be used to see if the intentions of the software were made; validate or verify that the program works as expected. NO SURPRISES!
Every single software developer talks about Open Source Software. They say, I love Open Source, Have you changed that program?, I’m installing Linux! But what the hell is Open Source?! Sometimes things are hard to explain and life is better with LEGOs, so here is an explanation of what open source is…
Software Architecture is the representation of the program that helps to understand how the software will behave. It serves as a guide for the design and the implementation teams. And is the first line of the system’s quality, such as performance, modifiability, and security. None of these could be done without an architectural vision.
The main purpose of UML is to provide the developer community a common way to design the base of an application. The primary authors were Jim Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, and Grady Booch; which have originally their own methods, but they joined forces to create a better one.
These diagrams represent the workflow of the process that needs to be described. In other words, it describes the process or actions between two or more classes. The flow starts with a circle and then continues with the actions that are inside rectangles. There are also conditionals represented by a diamond.
Life has a cycle, and even the software that we do has a cycle (More of it here). So why not combining both. I mean, programmers, specially Software Engineers should have one too.
It is well-known that programmers have a hard life. Maybe because we are so intelligent that nobody loves us, or because that’s life.
This is just a stereotype. Programmers have a life behind all their programs, and sometimes they are more interesting than what they appear.
So the next time you see one, please don’t call him/her a nerd (unless he/she wants it) because behind that nerd there is a real life and someone who could be your next partner in life.
There are Software Development Processes that help to plan and manage better the 
software that is going to be developed. Usually, industries use them to develop and
maintain an application. Each process has its own methodology; and each new process
pretends to be better than the old ones.
The most famous processes are:
There are big differences between these methodologies, but at the end developers use both daily. Usually there’s no preference for one or another, you just do what you have to do…
We end up with a piece of software that give us some kind of satisfaction when we use it. That is what software has become, a part of our lives that days before wasn’t even planned like that. People change, technology change and we keep updating our world just to improve our lifestyle.
Resources:
https://www.versionone.com/agile-101/
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/sdlc/sdlc_overview.htm
https://www.vikingcodeschool.com/software-engineering-basics/a-brief-history-of-software-engineering
I don’t know why everything in this life has a cycle, but anyway, I will talk about another cycle in this blog. The Software Development Life Cycle! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
This cycle is used in the software industry to develop high quality products and at the same time satisfy the client. Basically it consists on planing ahead everything, so the work could be done easily.
The basic steps are:
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Actually there’s no who. Configuration Management started as method to improve the processes of hardware development. But then the industry of Software took it and began to use it for good. On hardware was used as a method to prevent errors and confusion between different versions of the artifact. The converted method to software applied the same, programs are the artifacts and developers don’t get confused with different versions of it.
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Not every process is perfect. They can also have some imperfections, and Agile is one of them. Even when it is very useful there are some disadvantages that don’t give the perfection to this method.
Here’s a list of some disadvantages:
project.If you love Agile development, maybe you are totally against this Post. That’s why we have another post with more information about Agile HERE
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Victor Najar & Carmina Pérez
Resources:
http://www.allaboutagile.com/disadvantages-of-agile-development/
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