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Software Map: One of the most critical topics that software engineers, especially programmers, should be familiar with, but unfortunately not adequately addressed in the university, is the concept of software maps and software Development environments. 

Few programmers have enough information about software mapping to prepare their projects based on it. This article explains this concept briefly.

What is a software map?

Software drawings are based on objective information and are determined by analyzing code and information entered from software repository systems, information from source code or software development tools, and programming tools.

Software drawings do not depend on a programming language, modeling language, or software development process model.

Software maps refer to static, dynamic, and evolutionary information prepared in connection with software systems and software development processes. They provide two-dimensional or three-dimensional information to the quality development team or engineer.

The main applications of software mapping are related to risk analysis and monitoring of code quality, team activity, software development progress, improving software engineering efficiency, and software maintenance.

Software maps can combine information about software development, software quality, and system dynamics by mapping information on the visual variables of treemap elements such as area size, height, color, or texture.

Software maps can be specified regularly, generated automatically, and organized by patterns. They use well-defined, precise mapping techniques and the metaphor of a three-dimensional city model to express complex and abstract information spaces.

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Software drawings generally allow for understandable and effective communication on the risks and costs of software development projects to various stakeholders, such as the management and development team.

They provide the status of applications and systems currently being developed or further developed for project and management leaders at a glance.

“A key aspect of this decision-making is that software drawings provide the structural framework needed to interpret these performance indicators correctly”

As a means of communication, software maps act as open and transparent spaces of information that enable code quality priorities, create new functions that interact with each other, and take action to improve the software development process.

When the process of building software projects takes a long time, many complexities and problems arise, which, in the long run, lead to the development team’s exhaustion.

On the other hand, some system features may be ignored, and eventually, the quality of the code written may be reduced.

Because software maintenance is complex and costly, developers spend a significant portion of their time understanding the system’s structure and behavior.

The key idea of ​​software drawings is to address these optimization problems by providing practical communication tools to close existing gaps.

Software maps can be explicitly used as an analytical tool and introduction to business information systems, specializing in software data analysis.

In addition, software drawings act as recommendation systems for software engineering.

Software drawings are not limited to software information and can include hierarchical system information, such as maintenance information for complex technical artifacts.

Software maps build treemaps by constructing a hierarchy of software implementation concepts, such as source code files.

The height of a virtual building can be proportional to the complexity of the coding unit (for example, a combination of software metrics), and the land area of ​​a virtual 3D building can be proportional to the number of lines of code in the module.

Color can indicate the current development status; for example, several developers are modifying/editing a code unit. With this sample configuration, the software map shows essential points in the source code concerning aspects of the software development process.

For example, at a glance, it becomes clear that terms such as implementing changes in the shortest time, quickly assessing the impact of changes in one place on the performance of other parts of the software, reducing complexities that lead to uncontrolled application processes, finding errors faster, Usin Developmen, and … need to be done.

Design algorithms

To create software maps, different la. Developments are used to prepare basic spatial maps and components. For example, you can use treemap algorithms that first run the software hierarchy in a nested rectangular area or Voronoi-map algorithms that first design the software hierarchy by creating a Voronoi map.

Compared to regular treemap algorithms, which do not provide a definite arrangement, the arrangement algorithm for Voronoi treemaps can proffer a high degree of similarity of arrangement for different hierarchies. Similar approaches exist for the case based on tree diagrams.

Software drawing functions and methods belong to the scientific embodiment of software and information visualization. They form a key concept and technique in software detection

. They are also used in software analysis. Software drawings have been extensively developed and researched, for example, at the Hasso Plattner Institute for IT systems engineering, especially for complex IT systems.

What is the software deployment environment?

In software development, the environment is a computer system on which software or a software component is deployed and executed. In simple cases, for example, developing and running a program immediately on the same system may require only one environment. Still, in industrial and commercial cases, typically, an environment is created for significant change. It is considered; on the other hand, development is called End production. Development is used for the end-user.

This process of software release management structure helps in the deployment, testing, and rollback phases of many problems.

Environments may be significantly different. Typically, the development environment is a workspace just for software development, while the final production environment is likely to see a large network of distributed data center machines or virtual machines connected. Be cloudy.

Architectures

Deployment environments vary considerably but generally start at the development environment (DEV) and end at the final product (PROD) environment.

One of the most commonly used deployment architectures. Development, testing, display, and the development’s final product (DEV, TEST, STAGING, PROD) are deployed in the environments in the order mentioned.

In addition, other deployment environments are not generally considered for the software development process, such as the Quality Assurance provided to the testing staff and the Sandbox used by the developers to test the product.

It becomes. In an emergency, an environment called Disaster Recovery is used, which is used in case of a problem for the final version.

Other architectures in development include testing, acceptance testing, and the final product. DTAP Development Deployment refers to all the activities that prepare software for use until it is finally up and running.

The public deployment process involves several interrelated activities and possible changes between them. The software developer, the user, or both can perform these activities.

Because each software system is unique, the precise processes or internal algorithms of each activity can be difficult to define; Therefore, “deployment” should be interpreted as a general process customized according to specific requirements or specifications.

In pre-Internet software deployments, deployments (and related operations) were costly, rare, and bulky essentials.

It is therefore arguable that with the advent of the Internet, it is possible to end rapid software development.

In fact, the advent of cloud computing and software as a service means that software can be delivered to a large number of users on the Internet in minutes.

This also means that deployment schedules are currently typically determined by the software vendor, not the users. Such flexibility leads to increased continuous delivery, an option available specifically for low-risk web applications.

Deployment activities

Publishing is based on the software development process completed and is sometimes classified as part of it rather than the deployment process. It also includes preparation operations for assembly and transfer to computer systems.

Installation and activation

In simple systems, installation involves creating a command (computing), shortcut, script, or service to run the software (manually or automatically).

In more complex systems, the installation may involve configuring the system (possibly asking the end user about their intended use or directly about the system configuration) and building the required subsystems.

Disable

Deactivation is the opposite of activation and refers to shutting down any running component of the system.

Uninstall

Uninstalling has an anti-installation function and refers to uninstalling a system or software that is no longer needed.

Update

The update process replaces all or part of the latest released version of the system software. This process usually involves disabling and reinstalling. On systems such as Linux, older software versions are automatically deleted as part of this process using System Package Management.

Automatic Updates

Mechanisms have been developed to install the update on some systems (or on some operating systems such as Linux, Android, and iOS). Mechanisms for these fully automated update processes are provided to users.

Norton Internet Security is an example of a semi-automated system for retrieving and installing updates.

Establishment rules

The complexity and diversity of software products increase the specialized role of rules in coordinating and engineering the deployment process.

In Desktop software, end-users also become software developers when they install a software package on their device.