Davy Hua's Software Configuration Management Blog

The Benefits of Agile Development in SCM

davyhua — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:28:13 +0000

Tools such as XPlanner should be the cornerstone of an SCM group. This iteration and user-stories based model planning tool allows SCMs to have a more complete picture of what the current tasks/projects are and what’s in the back-burner. The way my current team uses this tool is we break it down to a monthly [...]

Types of Builds

davyhua — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:38:37 +0000

To promote the spirit of Agile Development and Continuous Integration, groups of builds must be classified and treated differently within the development organization. These builds are as follows: Engineering: These builds lives on the individual developer’s machine. It should never see the light of day beyond this scope. This is merely a [...]

What is SCM?

davyhua — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:21:09 +0000

As a highly specialized field within any software engineering organization, Software Configuration Management (SCM) is fast becoming the added foundation of any company that writes software. SCM, when done correctly, will be able to reproduce any changes of any given project at any point in its life cycle. The discipline of SCM is [...]

Continuous Integration

davyhua — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:33:43 +0000

What is Continuous Integration (CI)? Simply said, it is the concept of always and continuously integrating your changes. The change results must also be available within a reasonable period of time. Developer(s) checking new changes/codes into the repository should automatically trigger the builds. CI is mainly enforced with a build tool called CruiseControl. This tool’s primary [...]