Chapter 6. Creating a productive development environment
This chapter covers
This chapter illustrates strategies and tools for setting up controllable and highly maintainable environments that are isolated from those of other developers and production systems, and that include private workspaces (sometimes called sandboxes). But what does isolation have to do with collaborative team play? In fact, being able to work in isolation is essential for effective software development and team collaboration. Management has the obligation to foster reusability and protect investments, but it’s important for all stakeholders, such as developers, to be familiar with strategies for creating a productive development environment.