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Olga Filipova and Rui Vilão Software Development From A to Z A Deep Dive into all the Roles Involved in the Creation of Software Olga Filipova Berlin, Germany Rui Vilão Berlin, Germany Any source code or other supplementary material referenced by the author in this book is available to readers on GitHub via the book’s product page, located at www.apress.com/9781484239445 . For more detailed information, please visit http://www.apress.com/source-code . ISBN 978-1-48423944-5 e-ISBN 978-1-4842-3945-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3945-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018960193 © Olga Filipova and Rui Vilão 2018 This work is subject to copyright. 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We dedicate this book to our soon-to-be-born son Alex Acknowledgments We would like to thank Apress for the opportunity, especially Louise, Nancy, and Jim for their continuous support. We would like to address a huge thank you to our parents for their love and investment in our education. We would like to thank our friend and technical reviewer of this book, Evgeny. Evgeny’s kind words and sincere admiration enhanced our believing in this product. Thank you, EdEra team for the collaboration on this book—especially Ilia (Olga’s brother) for the brainstorming and ideating, Alexandra (EdEra’s designer) for the great illustrations and mockups, and Vasiliy (EdEra’s head of motion-design and post-production) for our beautiful videos. Thank you, Malu, for sharing your great experience as a UI/UX designer in such a deep detail with our readers. Thank you, Safi, for the great brainstorming session to start with hand-drawn mockups. Thank you, Oleg, for transforming that hand-drawn work into Sketch mockups. Thank you, Jan, for being there for the usability testing of the mockups and for giving us your awesome feedback! Thank you, Natasha, for being our QA engineer and providing us with the output that enriched the book with more real examples. Thank you, our colleagues and friends, for taking part in the interviews that helped to enrich this book with vivid experience—Sagar, Tomás, Olga, Stan, and Anderson. Thank you, our friends and colleagues from OptioPay and Gymondo for your kind support and interest in this book. Thank you, Taissa, for reviewing a couple of chapters and giving your invaluable feedback. Table of Contents Chapter 1: I Have An Idea! Introduction Software Products and Ideas Behind Them Different Models Research and Development Knowledge Sharing Platform Minimum Viable Product Summary Chapter 2: Roles, Responsibilities, and Methodologies Roles and Responsibilities Business Owner Product Manager Designers Backend Frontend Quality Assurance (QA) DevOps (development + operations) It’s Normal to be Confused About Roles! Methodologies Scrum Kanban Ok, But What Should I Use? Our Team and Process Summary Chapter 3: Requirements, Commitment, and Deadlines Product Manager Interview With Product Manager How People Become Product Managers and What They Deal With Differences Between Product Owner and Product Manager Involvement on the Path From Idea to Product Managing Products of Different Business Areas The Biggest Screw-Up The Biggest Success Preparation Requirements and Roadmap Kick-Off Commitment and Deadline Requirements for Our MVP Summary Chapter 4: User-Centered Design Design Journey—Its Start and End Personas and User Stories Types of Design User Interface and User Experience Design Process—How Designers Run It Designing Our Online Education Platform Initial Brainstorming Wireframes Usability Testing Visual Design Interview With a Product Designer Summary Chapter 5: Backend Development About the Stack... Defining Backend Applications Bootstrapping the Project Build Automation Tool: Maven Database Pros Cons Authentication Development Database Persistence Layer Service Layer Service API REST API and Transformation Layer Implementing the Registration Testing Summary Chapter 6: Frontend Development Let’s Code! Where Does Frontend Start? Markup and DOM Document Object Model Headings Hyperlinks Images Forms Inline and Block Elements Style Layout Design Systems Pre-Processors and Template Engines Dynamic Content Development Tools Console Variables Including JavaScript Functions Frameworks Contract Between Frontend and Backend Creating the Frontend Application for Our Platform IDEs Summary Chapter 7: Testing Our Product Different Types of Testing Unit Testing Integration Testing System Testing Acceptance Testing Regression Testing Who Is Testing What? Manual QA Tester Automation QA Tester From Manual to Automation Tester Tools, Platforms, and Frameworks Testing Our Product
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