Karl Heinz Marbaise at SubConf 2008

Title of the presentation: Branching Strategies - Usage of Branching Strategies within Software Development

Category: Powertrack Subversion

Date and Time: Thursday, 16th October 2008, 09:00 a.m. - 09:45 a.m.

Abstract: Often the use of branching strategies is neglected out of ignorance.
Project management can be supported by certain strategies or you can decouple e.g. development and deployment. Another important figure is the possibility to improve the quality. Characteristic factors which point to use such strategies are the repeated occurence of faults which have been solved in earlier versions.

The communication with the customer is getting more and more important as often the developed software will be used as a base of the customers own software development. Which release does the customer have? Which bugs have been solved? Which features have been implemented? etc. Those are characteristic questions which can be supported by a suitable branching strategy which can avoid ambiguitys.

The use of branching strategies often leads to an improvement in release-, building-, test-, and change-management as well.

Karl Heinz Marbaise is a freelance software development consultant with focus on J2EE projects (JBoss, Hibernate, Axis2, JUnit, TestNG, Ant, Maven2, Continuum, Hudson etc.) and of course software configuration management with OpenSource tools like CVS, Subversion, SVK etc.

Furthermore he is an experienced trainer and consultant and advises many different companies in Subversion, branching strategies or in migration from other tools like ClearCase to Subversion.