Questions tagged [development-environment]
Questions about the environment in which software development happens. This includes the hardware, software, and processes and methodologies used. Questions are expected to be unique to software development and require the expertise of people with education or experience in the field of software development.
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How to promote code to different environments in GitFlow branching strategy
I am a one person team of my project. I have adopted GitFlow branching strategy for my project which I have read from here, excluding the release branches because I am the the only developer in the ...
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How does one reliably test core Linux software (like package managers, UNIX utils, desktop environments, kernel modules, etc.)?
If I'm not mistaken, a major part of testing software is deploying and using it on your platform of choice. For critical system software such as UNIX utils, package managers, desktop environments/...
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What to consider in choosing an approach to dev environment creation for existing production system?
Our team has not had dev and test environments since it started 2-3 years ago. We had decided to give this (creation of dev and test environments) more priority. Current Environment One production ...
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Service changes for local development environment
I am developing a web app along with a backend API. The backend however must talk to other services, some of which are internal and others are not. In an ideal scenario we would spend time and have a ...
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What is the Software Engineering equivalent of a traditional Engineering Change Order (ECO)? [closed]
What best practices do large software companies recommend when introducing a breaking-change to their software development process? Put another way, how do you best communicate these changes to fellow ...
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How to abstract my development environment from external depencies
I am trying to build an API server. For the register operation I send an email to the given email address and wait for user to activate his account by using the code in the email that i sent. I use ...
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Protecting research source from spyware/data mining
My question is simple: What steps should you take to protect research from the vast amount of spyware or insecure applications on a given device? Background: I do research into developing new models ...
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How do you manage development-only files in your source control? [duplicate]
When merging development code into the production code, what is the preferred method for handling items that should not be in the production code branch? For example, I have configuration scripts that ...
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