Release Engineering 101 – Using Version Control System (Subversion)

Subversion has a few interesting ways of managing releases. The obvious one is the revision number – you committed revision 1234 to Subversion from your local workstation, then you “exported” revision 1234 to Dev, tested, signed off, and as a final step (once you’re happy with your testing) you export revision 1234 to the QA machine. (The process then repeats, but with different testers/QA people, and with UA -> Production instead of Dev -> UA)....

May 11, 2011 · 1 min · 181 words · Shafiq Alibhai