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Continuous Integration Helps Find and Kill Bugs

by Dan Ackerson on July 8, 2008

Today, automated test builds are a goal of most development shops, and Martin Fowler’s article on Continuous Integration provides an excellent overview about the major aspects. Regardless of where your team is on the path to achieving this goal, here are a few hints how to ease your way.
The committer pulls test coverage out of [...]

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Ownership Takes Commitment

by Dan Ackerson on June 24, 2008

Building on my previous article “The Branch Not Taken”, I’d like to convince you of the importance of code ownership. In Garret Hardin’s essay “Tragedy of the Commons”, he describes the burden that communal freedoms place upon a finite resource.
Protecting your release branch
If you consider stable, production ready code as a finite resource, it [...]

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The Branch Not Taken

by Dan Ackerson on June 17, 2008

Whether you’re running your website from the trunk or a release branch, you’ve already taken the first important step - you’re using a source code repository. Depending upon the size of your team and website, the way you manage this repository will vary tremendously. I’d like to share some of my experiences in managing code [...]

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