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Chapter 1. Welcome to Software Construction

What is Software Construction?

If this book were a dog, it would nuzzle up to construction, wag its tail at design and testing, and bark at the other development activities.

  • Coding and Debugging
  • Construction Planning
  • Detailed Design
  • Unit Testing
  • Integration
  • Integration Testing

Why is Software Construction Important?

  • a large part.
  • the central activity.
  • with a focus on it, the individual programmer's productivity can improve enormously.
  • It's product, the source code, is often the only accurate description of the software.
  • the only activity that's guaranteed to be done.

How to Read This Book?

  • cover to cover
  • specific programming tips: ch6