[Info-vax] Three boot camp sessions on YouTube

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-10-08 21:31:12 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> In it, you make reference to a 1988 edition of "Digital's Software 
> Engineering Manual". Do you know if this one is online please ?

I haven't seen a copy of this book posted online anywhere, though there 
are copies out in the wild.

The 1988 manual is a description of how DEC developed and maintained 
and tracked software a quarter-century ago, with the related processes 
and the various DEC standards, and with the various notes conferences 
and corporate-internal contacts.   It's a good document, from a 
historical perspective.

It might also be a reasonable intro into some of what you will want to 
think about when establishing or updating development processes in a 
moderate-sized or larger company, but it's also very dated.   The 
development practices are going to be very slow, and ill-suited to more 
recent expectations and markets.   It's very much a document about 
mid-range computing of that era.    Among the many technical limits, 
the tools discussed in the document are archaic.   (Yes, some of us are 
still using those tools, too.)   There's no coverage of the Internet 
and networking, nor of security, authentication, mobile computing, app 
hardening, software updates, or a whole host of other topics and areas.

There are newer and much better documents available from other sources, 
if you're starting up a large-scale development project.

If you're looking for an intro to OpenVMS application development and 
one that's shorter than reading through the OpenVMS documentation set — 
which is itself rather dated, unfortunately — then maybe one of Roland 
Hughes' "The Minimum..." books?




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