Activity: Develop Programming Guidelines

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Purpose To develop programming guidelines.
Steps Tailor the programming guidelines Capture decisions
Input Artifacts: Development Case Tools Programming Guidelines	Resulting Artifacts: Programming Guidelines
Role: Software Architect

Workflow Details:

Environment

Prepare Guidelines for an Iteration

Tailor the Programming Guidelines

You should specify, or use a preexisting programming guideline (a language style guide) to achieve a homogeneous implementation. You can use the ready-to-use programming guidelines for Ada, C++ and Java.

You may have to tailor the programming guidelines to cover the areas that are relevant for the programming language(s) you are using. See section "Tailoring" in the Programming Guidelines.

The programming guidelines should specify how to present code layout and commenting, how to use naming conventions, and how to use language features. It should also describe precautions regarding certain language features.

Capture Decisions

Document in the Artifact: Programming Guidelines, all decisions.

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