Branching merging software configuration management

In both of the above cases, such issues might have been avoided with a shorter release cycle and increased code quality. For more from our software consultants, check out this post about coding in less than ideal conditions.

Work Entrance. What We Do. Nate Richards June 6, The terminology used in this article is defined at the bottom. Standard Branching Strategy Currently, our standard branching structure revolves around three main branch types, as shown in the below image. Main — This is the main parent branch. No code changes should be made directly into this branch. Dev — This is the main development branch, and is a child of Main.

All general development work happens in here. For smaller projects, the Main and Dev branches can be combined. This allows stability of the product and makes it easy to push out emergency fixes. Although these branches can be maintained indefinitely, it is recommended that only 2 previous and current versions are kept, and the others archived or deleted.

Contact webmaster parabuildci. Automerge: Automated Inter-Branch Merging for Software Configuration Management Introduction Software organizations use branches to isolate changes made to codebase in order to support concurrent software development.

Problem Of Growing Number Of Branches As the number of branches grows, so does the amount of work needed to merge changes. Simple Automatic Merge The natural solution to this problem is automating the merging activity. The simple automatic merge may severely damage product code base over a short period of time: Parabuild CI Automerge Parabuild CI solves the problem of the growing number of branches by offering Automerge , industry's first, ground-breaking technology that delivers verified automatic merges.

Core Technology The essence of Automerge is using the last known clean state of the target codebase and a build configuration associated with it to run a validation build before submitting results of the merge to VCS. In detail, automerge: Watches successful integration builds in a source branch. Finds a successful integration build in a target branch.

Creates a temporarily workspace and syncs to the clean build target build. Merges changes that were included into a successful source integration. If there are conflicts it sends a notification to owners of conflicting changes. Runs a validation build according to the target build configuration. If the validation build is successful, submits the change. If the validation build has failed, sends a notification message to owners of changes failed validation.

Goes to step 1. Features Automatic merging integration Preserving changelist description Integration reports Integration nags Merge queue status Merge all and merge selected Branch specs Web user interface Web User Interface Automerge has a Web UI that shows what is merged and what is not, also known as integration report , and status of the automatic merge queue.

All Automerge configuration is done through the Web user interface as well. Branch Label Branch and Label? Which is the immediate benefit of identifying the CI? SCM Change request Concurrent development?

All of the above 7 Controlling the retrieval of modifiable copies of files from the repository is SCM Merging Document Retrieval Concurrency Control 8 When multiple checkouts are allowed in the CM model, which of the following is not true? Changes can only be made with write access Only users in the access control list can make changes True person can work simultaneously using the branching and merging tools if possible No changes are possible to a checked out file 9 Any proposals for improvement in SCM process defined in veloci-Q can be raised using TedWeb Request PIP Audits None of the above 10 Repeated Application of the same selection rule will result in either same or different component configurations.

Which of the following results in the same component configuration? Partially bound configuration Bound Configuration configuration template Unbound configuration 11 SCM defines basically : The organization of the components of a software system so that they fit together in a working order?

Suggesting developer of enhancement line to perform the bug fix changes Performing merge from identified baseline of maintenance bug fix to enhancement line Setting up trigger for automatic bug fix notification Inform testing team about the bug fix in enhancement line 14 SCM tools maintain the history of artifacts. What is the primary information maintained within history?