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Re: braches best usage


From: David A. Bartmess
Subject: Re: braches best usage
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:39:37 -0700
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What I've done in this scenario in the past is to create an "integration" 
branch. NOT a QA branch, but one which the developers only are allowed to 
merge to, just to check the viability of their changes. A cruisecontrol 
system runs a continuous build on the integration branch,  to do both of 1) 
test the build to make sure no one breaks it syntactically, and 2) run the 
junit or other automated tests to ensure they didn't break it logically.

This isn't much of an overhead, and if the developer does any testing at all 
on his box, using his copy of the integration branch, the results are almost 
always good to go to QA (merged to the QA branch for the next QA build).

Note that the developers should merge THEIR branch directly to the QA branch 
(or the SCM admin should) to avoid introducing non-tested code merged from 
other developers.

It's fairly simple to setup the scripts to allow them to do this without much 
hassle, and it makes for an even better chance at passing QA's testing if it 
goes through these steps. I've always been able to (after a proving period) 
convince the management it's worth a minor hassle on the developer and/or SCM 
to get this much done...

On Monday 21 February 2005 05:50 pm, bobby temper wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a point that confuses me about branches usage.
>
> We have developpers that want to isolate themselves from the trunk, by
> creating a branch.
>
> After that, the code needs to go to QA. This is where i'm confused: how can
> we make that code go to QA? If we merge the code from the branch to the
> trunk, before doing QA, what if that code cannot go to the next release?
>
> I was thinking of creating a QA branch, and have everyone wanting their
> code to be QAed needs to merge their code to that branch. But then again,
> this might create a little overwork..
>
> What's the best thing to do? I'm a bit lost...
>
> Best regards,
> Bobby
>
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David A. Bartmess
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