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Different teams use very different development processes, with very different results.

IT Hares have collectively spent quite a bit of time developing in small- and medium-sized teams, and are ready to share their own experiences with different development processes.

Development Processes, page 1:

Too Much Unit Testing Is Detrimental for Code Quality?

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Quote: “Code quality tends to be Quite Bad(tm) when there is no unit testing at all, reaching maximum when there are 0 to 10% of the unit testing methods, and degrading afterwards.”
Another Quote: “It is quite easy to get past the optimum amount of unit testing for your project. And whenever your unit testing starts to affect your code in a negative way – you should stop”
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BDT – Automating Your Application Testing in Behavior-Driven Way

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Quote: “Descriptive style takes its roots from the «chain» pattern, in which the methods enclosed in classes return some reference on themselves.”
Another Quote: “Business-driven testing or BDT allows non-technical members of any development team a stronger involvement in the development process by allowing them to comprehend test cases and even create their own. “
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Choosing Version Control System for MOG development

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Quote: “For game development (and unlike most of other software development projects), you’re likely to have binary files which need to be edited (representing so-called "assets")”
Another Quote: “for open-source games, Git does have a Very Significant AdvantageTM”
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MOGdev: to feature branch or not to feature branch?

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Quote: “As a rule of thumb, for gamedev we DO need to have our version control to be easily usable by non-developers.”
Another Quote: “it is the second developer to commit who becomes (削除) a rotten egg (削除ここまで) responsible for resolving conflicts”
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DevOps for MOGs

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Quote: “This communication channel (coming from Operations back to Development) is extremely important to have a game which is able to work anywhere-reliably in the real world”
Another Quote: “Most importantly, our processes should allow these different production cycles to co-exist.”
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