Most people think that programming is only writing several lines of code. Actually a good programmer needs not only to understand programming language syntax very well, but also to play around with many tools and build up good programming practice. There ARE some super star programmers, but super star programmers could spoil your delivery since only he knows everything. When it comes to the customer support stage, he will be too busy to answer all the questions. One day he left the company, Wow, nobody can take over his job. The good software must be the collaboration result of the development team, test team and many support teams, plus your customer.
I tried to express my software engineering experience from technical perspective, there is an article on software engineering from project organization perspective in this website also.
First of all, some software processing people believe that the “bug density” of software is from software processing and quality control only, it should be independent of people. Yes, it IS from process and quality. However, the project organization, tech leader’s technical capability and whether the team are willing to do the project (don’t laugh, it is true sometime people just get annoyed and don’t want to do anything).
1. GNU development tools on Linux. 1
1. GNU development tools on Linux
GNU development tools are a complete set of framework. They are absolutely free and powerful. Some people say that there is nothing but the GNU way to develop software, a typical Linux/UNIX software developer uses in his everyday work. GNU development tools are not worse than any other commercial (expensive) so called "killer-apps" widely used on other platforms. GNU tools are your friends for any development work done on Linux. Before you want to purchase new software development tools, think it over, I bet you could have a GNU solution to satisfy your requirement.
This set of tools are used for x86/Linux native development I used to play with.
Linux platform virtually supports everything required for embedded development. Some company had to use windows cross-development environment simply because historical reasons. You may find information on Linux cross development environment here.
2. Other Tools
However, there are still some commercial tools you should know. Anyway, everyone want to use free tools and sell their product with high price. If nobody buy commercial tools, many software engineer will lost their job also.
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