I am studying Software Engineering this year and I am little confused about the question in the title. Both of my professor and the reference ("Software Engineering A Practitioner Approach")...

I am using Visual Studio 2013 Preview, although I'm sure I've seen it in earlier versions. When creating a new project using the wizard, I select C++, Win32 Console Application, and there is an opt...

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Some of the projects we're working on have strong roots in jQuery 1.4.2 or earlier, and somewhere between lacking the performance edge (or syntactic sugar) of the latest releases, the humiliation o...

I believe that Agile is nothing but another implementation of Spiral Model. I am a big supporter of Spiral (The spiral model is a software development process combining elements of both desig...

I've come across the phrase 'sustaining software engineering' but don't know exactly what it means. There seems to be some DoD connection? Is it related to Agile Development?

My company builds a web application for Real Estate Institutions -- initially coded in classic ASP with an incremental migration to .NET. Essentially, its a website with backend DB, mixed with cust...

The process of creating a new build and releasing it to production is a critical step in the SDLC but it is often left as an afterthought and varies greatly from one company to the next. I'm hopin...

I have created a PHP web-application. I have 3 environments: DEV, TEST, PROD. What's a good tool / business practice for me to move my PHP web-application code from DEV to TEST to the PROD enviro...

It is mentioned on the Systems Development Life Cycle page on Wikipedia: To manage this, a number of system development life cycle (SDLC) models have been created: waterfall, fountain, spiral, b...

I'm in the process of developing several custom build scripts for TFS and I'd like to know if there are any best practices for developing, testing and deploying TFS build scripts. Do you setup dev...

Are there any methods/systems that you have in place to incentivize your development team members to write "good" code and add comments to their code? I recognize that "good" is a subjective ...