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GIT For Basics Editor's Note: Recently, I asked my colleague, Dilip, to give me an article describing his own experience learning a CM tool that I was not familar with myself. The best part of writing for CM Crossroads is that we get reports from people who actually know and understand how these products work in the real world. Please take a look at Dilip's excellent article and get ready to share your best practices and experience next! |
Dilip Mahadevappa
December 2, 2008 |
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Tracing rule execution in GNU Make Who hasn't wondered what exactly Make's log file output means. This article is about Makefile tracing. I cover tracing the execution of Makefile rules. |
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Tool Choice as a Quality Issue We need to choose an SCM tool. It will mean some work to make the choice and then more work to put it into practice. At least we don’t have to worry about it from a quality perspective, though. After all, the tools we choose to employ don’t affect the quality of the software we produce. Do they? Well, let’s think about this a bit. Hmmmmmm…
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Alan S. Koch
November 18, 2008 |
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Selecting a CM/ALM Tool That Will Add Value to All Users Selecting a CM/ALM tool is no small task these days. The CM/ALM tool is no longer just another developer tool, such as a compiler or IDE environment. Instead, it forms the backbone of a development organization. It will strongly influence an organization's ability to measure and control quality, meet schedules, comply to requirements and assess development costs. It will also be the central focus for all development processes. It will support a key knowledge base, and will be viewed as the vault for both software and product assets. |
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Getting Started with Agile SCM A prerequisite to any of the Agile SCM practices, such as integration build, private build, unit tests, and the like, is being able to set up a developer’s private workspace with the right code and tools so that you can code, build and test. In this article, we discuss the important, and often overlooked process of creating a development workspace, which is to say, getting started. |
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What is a CM Tool? Does the title of this article sound silly? I mean, doesn’t everyone know what a configuration management (CM) tool is? Isn’t a CM tool something that provides version control functionality? Well, the short answer is yes but only in its most simplistic form. CM as a discipline goes well beyond simple version control. It is important to look beyond what vendors define as classic CM tools and consider CM in terms of the full practice and processes they offer. CM at its very essence covers identification, control, audit, and report. Many would expand control to include version control, change control, build management, and release engineering. |
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Adding set operations to GNU Make The new GMSL functions include ways of testing the relationship between sets and determining whether an individual element is in a set. |
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A Framework for Evaluating and Implementing Standards Many organizations do not comprehend that just calling something a standard does not necessarily make it so to folks within the organization. There is effort required to create a standard that is valuable to the organization. On the other hand, there are many de-facto standards that people do not recognize as a standard. This has to do with the drivers of the standards. |
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How Does the Shift Toward Web-Based Technology Influence CM? While the definition of Web 2.0 has barely begun to settle down, applications must start to react. Web 2.0 is, from a technology viewpoint, mostly a combination of collaborative web technology and application web interfaces that mimic their native client counterparts. From a social viewpoint, it's a communication and information transition: blogs, Facebook, integrated chat, and meeting capabilities create a web base of knowledge so that anyone can search for anyone or anything and communicate or contribute to the subject matter. From a CM/ALM perspective, there has always been a need to have a base of knowledge, of data, and of people. The success of CM depends on it. So how really does Web 2.0 play into the next generation of CM? |
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The Basics: VPATH and vpath Ask Mr. Make talks about the uses of VPATH and vpath. |
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