I've been doing some more blogging at <http://blog.bradapp.net/> continuing on the subject of "the first thing to build is trust". Part of it stemmed from a...
Hi Guys I am writing a CM Plan for our project.Could you guys can tell me what needs to be documented for the following section SCM Status Accounting and...
I'm working on my monthly column for Software Test & Performance magazine, and I could use some real-world input. I hope you can help me out. The topic this...
Hi Esther! For a start, Id look at the Dec'04 issue of CMCrossroads Journal Online at <http://www.cmcrossroads.com/cmjournal/dec04.html>. The theme that month...
... Thanks for the link! Looks like good stuff (and free too :-) ... Someday soon I'll be blogging on this subject at http://blog.bradapp.net I'm planning on...
Hello Friends One of our Prestigious client, has an urgent requirement for Configuration Management Professionals for their Bangalore office. Location:...
I've just introduced Subversion into an organisation and must say that I like it so far. The development team is about to release a version of the software and...
... Hi Trond! Can you tell us more about what you feel constitutes a "versioning strategy"? Do any of the resources below have what you consider to be a...
I think the answer you are looking for is something like: <Major Version>.<Minor Version>[.<Patch Level>] Where each field above is always two digits (range of...
... This is exactly what I was thinking about and the description you gave pretty much matches your versioning strategy. The reason I mentioned GNU is that...
... Well, what you are describing is a Version or Release /Numbering Scheme/ (different from "versioning strategy"). Michael Bay's book on Software Release...
Hey... I don't look at other people's articles! For a journalist, that's like copying off of someone else's paper during a math test. <grin> (And you don't...
... For those who are interested, I now have two related blog-entries at: http://blog.bradapp.net 1) "Traceability and TRUST-ability" talks about the alleged...
To maintain some level of formal discussion on very technical issues, it is important that peers stick with common nomenclature to keep discourse productive ...
Just to point out some more terms for you... We had a tool to do this with Clearcase years ago called "bthold". The idea being that you want to put these...
Well - I think "Shelving" is better than the old "Pinning" nomenclature. Actually, it not clear to me that "Shelving" necessarily means making a task branch....
Accurev has a similar concept to shelving (keep in their terms which is independent of promote) and I know of another tool called Omniworks (now effectively...
Someone pointed me at this thread (and, coincidentally, I just saw the Subversion-related shelving post a few days ago). I thought you guys might like some...
... Here I think we need to be very careful in assumptions that we make and be wary of the difference between: * "check-in" (to the repository) versus *...
... Many thanks Chris for joining the list/thread and shedding some light on the upcoming VSTS functionality and implementation. Welcome! -- Brad Appleton...
Over the next month I'll be facilitating a roundtable discussion that may interest people on this list... description is below. You can get to it by:...
I'm working on my next article for Software Test & Performance magazine. Ordinarily, my "best practices" column is about the ways developers and testers do the...
Hi everyone out there. First, a brief introduction. Alan Cyment: Born and located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Msc from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Msc...
I used ENVY for several years, first in VisualWorks Smalltalk, later in VisualAge for Java. ENVY's component ownership model is unique. It is certainly...
... Agree. It's just that I too often see it discussed as if it were, especially when it's one of those "our way is better than your way" sort of things. Most...
Brad, I am on the side of collective code ownership. I've seen this work best in an engineering team of around 10. If the team is any bigger, it may work by...
... I've seen several points on the individual/collective ownership spectrum work well. In the middle ages (the 1980s) I was on a team designing heart ...
Hi Robert ... Sounds somewhat like a two-person "Feature Team" in FDD-style. Usually, unless the two "feature partners" have roughly comparable experience and ...
We received an honorable mention in the letters-to-the-editor section of The June 2005 issue of Software Development Magazine (www.sdmagazine.com). The April...