Most of the readers of this blog are CM specialists. Whether you’re a corporate CM librarian, or a build manager, you are focused on what the industry now calls “Application Lifecycle Management.” That’s an attempt to give a name to the collection of roles and functions we perform. It isn’t so much that the people [...]
Recently I had the opportunity to develop a unit testing framework for MySQL scripts in mostly-pure SQL. While I can’t share the code, I can certainly describe what we did, and why we did it. Hopefully it will be useful to you.
Austin Hastings (that’s me) will be speaking at two conferences coming up in October. Both presentations will be focusing on LDM.
First, there’s the Telelogic User Group Conference 2008, in Austin, Texas. That’s obviously focused on Telelogic, and on CM Synergy and Telelogic Change, or whatever it’s called this week. Since I spent a fair amount [...]
I was browsing some Spanish-language software development blogs, and came across a reference to MatchPoint, a mainframe-oriented product from a Swiss company called CM First AG.
These guys don’t seem to have any more idea than most about how to manage database changes, but their product (or at least, the pdf of the glossy brochure) [...]
(Note: This is part of the “Dimensions of SCM Challenge” series.)
The simplest capability challenge from an SCM standpoint is SCM capability. Can you, or can your team, effectively manage the changes and/or configuration of your project? It’s hard to diagnose a lack of capability, because the team members are too busy dealing with the symptoms—each [...]
(Note: This is part of the “Dimensions of SCM Challenge” series.)
Changing or unknown requirements can be a huge source of problems for a development team. Fortunately, configuration management is designed to support exactly this development problem. Books and tools abound that address the issues of managing changes, documenting and tracing requirements, and ensuring that the [...]
(Note: This is part of the “Dimensions of SCM Challenge” series.)
For our purposes, there is not much difference between a standard and an interface. Either one can be nearly trivial to support, or can impose enormous costs on the project. Complying with an internal coding standard, an ISO language standard, or a database vendor API [...]
I wrote this stuff—all the dimensions of challenge bits—at the same time as the SCM Techniques. To me, they are two sides of the same coin. The challenges identify types of problem that you might have, or perhaps helps to decompose the problems you have. The techniques help to overcome the problems. I’m submitting both [...]
April is the month for LDM at CM Crossroads. They published two articles, one a case study describing the background in which it was developed, the other a technical introduction.
The case study is here, and the technical details article is here.
I’m eventually going to incorporate LDM info as pages here on Doing Better. But [...]
