Garden Maintenance Overview The maintenance phase of any garden project is, perhaps, the most challenging. In software engineering, developers support the software and client by fixing any errors in the software. Similarly, with garden maintenance, our goal is to keep your plants alive, keep your landscape features in working order, and fix any issues that […]
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Software testing goals include: Given a set of inputs into the software, testing requires checking what is output by the software for those inputs. With software testing, we ask, “Do the actual results match the expected results”? If the answer is ‘no’, then there are issues that need to be addressed. If the answer is
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The implementation phase is where the plans start becoming reality! This phase is also the most physically demanding, unless you’re supervising others or hiring others to do the work. During the implementation phase, software engineers often use an integrated development environment (IDE) to facilitate writing code and developing software. This development environment includes a centralized
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Once you have documented a core set of requirements, you must start designing your garden. This could be the most time-consuming part of the project. If you have a solid design, then the later phases of the garden project lifecycle should be quite simple. My favorite part of the design phase is researching different plant
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The Importance of Specifying Requirements Before beginning any gardening project, you must have an idea of the final product or you might wander aimlessly with no direction, no vision, and no structure (though I do admit: there is a certain amount of joy and excitement involved in wandering aimlessly through a garden center). Having a
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The software development lifecycle contains many phases for building software. The core phases of the software lifecycle typically include requirements, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. Those phases can also be adapted for other domains, like gardening! Here’s my definition of the phases of my proposed garden project lifecycle: Below, I give a brief overview of
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Introduction to Agile Gardening Agile gardening borrows principles and ideas from agile software development. In this post, we explore the similarities and differences between software development and gardening. We also explain why every gardener should be agile. Software engineering and gardening seem like two very different fields. However, they both have something in common —
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