Thanks for this, you have the same concerns as I that prompted the book, which started out as the development of the "Chef Broiler Plate" https://github.com/jrobertfox/chef-broiler-plate because there were all these great tools, but no cohesive idea on how to integrate all of them.

I think i'll add a section that goes over the process as you say, because once the framework is set up you could

-create cookbook -build tests -write book -verify quality -test on vagrant -version/promote

something like that.