Construction Activities

Key Points
● Software construction the central activity in software development;
   construction is the only activity that’s guaranteed to happen on every
   project.
● The main activities in construction are detailed design, coding, debugging,
   and developer testing.
● Other common terms for construction are “coding and debugging” and
   “programming.”
● The quality of the construction substantially affects the quality of the
   software.
● In the final analysis, your understanding of how to do construction
   determines how good a programmer you are, and that’s the subject of the
   rest of the book.