ABCs of product development
These should be obvious to anyone who has developed a real software product before. But, recently I had talked to a few people who were working on their first large scale projects on their own but were making some basic mistakes without realizing it. 1. If you are developing a new product or technology, prototyping and research is a must. Agile development methodologies are good, but for a large scale product use agile methodologies after your research phase. 2. Prototyping and research often takes longer than developing the actual product itself. Someone should actually write a prototype which acts as the prototype for modularization & abstraction as well if possible. 3. Always separate your UI code from your non-UI code. Often, the non UI code will be implemented as services in the windows platform. Develop a fool proof mechanism to keep the software upto-date as well. 4. Never try to automate your UI testing first. It should be done only after automating tests for the non-UI...