Software Development Best Practices

Francois Tonic, the editor in chief of Programmez   has asked me to write an article around the best software development practices.

I am architecturing the article around 8 key ideas:

1. The management culture
2. The need for a software development methodology
3.  A proper source code control management system
4. A modern integrated development environment
5. A continuous integration process
6. A proper bug and issue tracking system
7. A proper testing (unit and regression) environment
8. The developers’ culture

I am putting the last touch to the article, but can you think of a key best practive you could not live without ?.

Seb.

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