Software Development

Software development is the process of designing, coding, testing, and maintaining applications or systems to solve problems or perform tasks using computer software.

Project Management
- Methodology
  - Prince2
  - Scrum
  - Extreme Programming (XP)
  - Unified Process (UP)
  - Rapid Application Development (RAD)
- Documents
  - Procedures
  - Templates
  - Check Lists
- Task Management
- Change Management
- Issue Management
- Risk Management
Architecture And Design
- Design Balance
  - Requirements
  - Constraints
  - Dependencies
  - Risks
- Design Documentation
  - Business Processes
  - Business Requirements
  - Functional Specification
  - Technical Specification
- Design Approach
  - Adaptive Design
  - Progressive Enhancement
  - Graceful Degradation
- Design Thinking
  - Identify The Nouns (Entities/Data)
  - Identify The Verbs (Requests/Actions)
  - Separate The Verbs
    - Commands
    - Queries
  - Separate The Commands
    - Data Creation (Create)
    - Data Mutation (Update, Delete)
  - Favour Pure Functions
    - Pass Dependencies As Parameters
  - Favour Composition Over Inheritance
  - Minimise Nesting
  - Remove Or Minimise Shared State
    - Organise Shared State Into Data Structures
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  - Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
- Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA)
  - Representational State Transfer (REST)
- Unified Modelling Language (UML)
  - Structure Diagrams
    - Class Diagram
    - Component Diagram
    - Composite Structure Diagram
    - Deployment Diagram
    - Object Diagram
    - Package Diagram
    - Profile Diagram
  - Behaviour Diagrams
    - Activity Diagram
    - Use Case Diagram
    - State Machine Diagram
    - Interaction Diagrams
      - Sequence Diagram
      - Communication Diagram
      - Timing Diagram
      - Interaction Overview Diagram
Software Development Life Cycle
- Plan
- Design
- Develop
- Test
- Deploy
- Monitor
  - Telemetry
    - Logging And Auditing
    - Tracing
    - Metrics
- Support
Quality Assurance
- Best Practice
- Coding Standards
- Coding Reviews
- Testing
  - Types
    - Acceptance Testing
    - Black Box Testing
    - White Box Testing
    - Regression Testing
    - Stress Testing
  - Levels
    - System Testing
    - Integration Testing
    - Unit Testing
      - Mock, Stub, Fake
- Issue Resolution
- Change Management
- Configuration Management
- Version Control
Programming Paradigm
- Functional Programming
  - Pure Functions
  - Expressions Rather Than Statements
  - Composition Rather Than Inheritance
  - Immutability
- Declarative Programming
- Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
  - Attributes
    - Abstraction
    - Encapsulation
    - Polymorphism
    - Inheritance
  - Principles And Patterns
    - SOLID Principles
      - Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
      - Open / Closed Principle
      - Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)
      - Interface Segregation Principle (ISP)
      - Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)
    - Design Patterns
      - Creational Patterns
        
        Abstract Factory
        
        Factory Method
        
        Lazy Initialization
        
        Prototype
        
        Singleton
      - Structural Patterns
        
        Adapter
        
        Bridge
        
        Composite
        
        Decorator
        
        Facade
        
        Proxy
      - Concurrency Patterns
        
        Lock
      - Behavioural Patterns
        
        Chain of Responsibility
        
        Command
        
        Interpreter
        
        Iterator
        
        Mediator
        
        Memento
        
        Observer
        
        Publish / Subscribe
        
        Specification
        
        State
        
        Strategy
        
        Template Method
        
        Visitor
Applications
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
  - Planning
  - Production
  - Sales And Marketing
  - Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  - Inventory Management
  - Finance And Accounting
  - Human Resources
  - Reporting
Tasks
- Automation
- Optimisation
- Integration
- Migration
Tools
- Agile
  - Jira (by Atlassian)
  - YouTrack (by JetBrains)
- Package Manager
  - NuGet
- Dependency Injection
  - Ninject
  - StructureMap
  - Castle Windsor
- Validation
  - FluentValidation
  - DataAnnotation
- Logging
  - Serilog
  - Log4Net
  - NLog
  - Logging Application Block
  - Elmah
- Testing
  - MSTest
  - NUnit
  - XUnit
- Mocking
  - NSubstitute
  - Moq (Privacy Concern ???)
- Benchmarking
  - BenchmarkDotNet
- Debugging
  - Visual Studio Debugger
- System Debugging
  - Sysinternals
- Version Control
  - Git
  - Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC)
  - PVCS
  - Visual Source Safe (VSS)
- Deployment (CI/CD)
  - Jenkins
  - TeamCity (by JetBrains)