Best Practices for modern sw development

Version control

• git for everything...

Building

• scons

Communication tools

• Doxygen for the product documentation
• Jabber for daily chatting (ejabber is nice server, Empathy works as client)

Development processes

• Scrum (for feature driven projects)
• Kanban (for framework projects)
• and finally Scrumban

Testing

• Automatic unittests -- keep them fast and very simple to run (several tools)
• Continuous building and testing (e.g. Jenkins)
• Requirements vs. testcases = 1:1 (ATDD)
  - write and manage requirements in "testing language"
  - Robotframework is a small step in the right direction

Packaging

• Portage for source distributions
• apt for binary distributions