I'm trying to draw up a Software Development guide for some juniors at work, you know stuff like :

Naming Conventions
Formatting
Test Cases

etc

Any one got any websites that list this kinda stuff ? Or indeed a document that they use themselves ?

Thanks

 

I don't think you'll find such a guide.

Best bet is to draw up something yourself based on what you'd actually do if it were you developing.

Then tell them that if they do not conform, you will beat the living daylights out of them with a bat.

Worked for me

 

are you writing test driven software?

are you using patterns?

probably best to write your own guidelines.

 

yeah i advocate tdd and XP/Scrum

Just thought there might be a guide out there that i could customise to suit me needs

 

Agile.
I guess you mentioned Xtreme Programming which can be useful.

In addidtion to your list

Documentation
OOP
Use of source control e.g TeamSource, TFS or Visual Source Safe.
Peer code review

 

People here advocating agile/xp/scrum, what sort of sized teams do you work in? Do any of you have multisited teams, and if so how does it work with that? Intrigued to know, one of our projects is run in a (semi) agile manner, me, I'm from old school formal methods, and my team consists of about 15 or 16 people spread across three sites so I'm curious as to whether an agile process would scale to that team size across different sites.

Apologies for the slight hijack, it might bring some things to light for the original question

molko, what language is it for or are you after just general software practice? We use C++ and tend to follow the guidelines and recommendations in the Scott Meyers books (which would be a good place to start if you too are that way inclined )