Chapter 1 - Welcome to Software Construction

Activities that go into software development include:

• problem definition
• requirements development
• construction planning
• software architecture, or high-level design
• detailed design
• coding and debugging
• unit testing
• integration testing
• integration
• system testing

Key Points

• Software construction is the central activity in software development; construction is the only activity that's guaranteed to happen on every project.
• The main activities in construction are:
  • detailed design
  • coding
  • debugging
  • integration
  • testing (unit and integration)
• In the final analysis, your understanding of how to do constructions determines how good a programmer you are.

Just like in building constructions, those who understand how to do it are good constructors.