Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Developer perspective of WSO2 App Factory

As a web application developer, what are the challenges we face in day today development activities?
  • How easy to setup your IDE?
  • How long you take to find your applications, source code?
  • How often you build your code? Introduces compile errors.
  • How easy to get your build server configured and get an account?
  • How long it takes you to get an account in issue tracking system?
  • How long it takes you to configure servers to deploy your application? Port conflicts, firewall restrictions, lack of resources such as Memory, disk space,etc.
  • How long it takes you to continue development in next day? Start servers and IDE, get latest source code, build, deploy.
  • How easy to know your team members, how they contribute etc?
  • How easy for you to move your application from Development servers into Testing,Production servers? App does not work in Testing server but it works in my machine?
  • How often do you test your application in a clustered setup?
  • How do you manage your milestone releases?
  • How do you work in multiple applications? How easy for you to switch among applications?
  • How easy for you to do a quick demo on current progress of your application?