D-LAN

h1. Development process

Here is a little list of the development stages involve in D-LAN. 

# [[Brainstorming]].

# [[Functional definition]].

# Defining of technologies, [[libraries]] and [[tools]].

# Creating of some [[prototypes]] to validate the point above. They will be reused during the implementation stage.

# Technical specifications. [[Protocols]], [[algorithms]] and [[persistent data]]. Some prototypes can be added to test algorithms or anything else.

# [[Architecture]] of components and theirs interface. -> Component Diagrams.

# Modeling of each components. -> Class diagram, sequence diagram, state diagram, etc..

# Implementation of each component with unit tests, unit benchmarks, and code coverage. Once a component is near finished, a another person of the team will read the code and criticize it.

# Alpha version.

** All features are implemented.

** Only developers have access to it

# Beta versions.

** The tag _1.0.0 beta1_ is created.

** Testing with people who didn't participate in the project.

** Profiling, optimizing, simplification and stabilisation. See [[Stabilisation process]]

** After some corrected bugs an another beta is created if necessary (beta1, beta2, etc..).

# Final Release \o/

** The _1.0_ branch is created

** The tag _1.0.0_ is created

# Define the future integration workflow[1] with _git_ and Goto 1..