Professional Article "Neues in Subversion 1.7" published in the entwickler magazin 05/2011, titled “Sommer – Sonne – Subversion“ (Author: Neels Hofmeyr)

Version 1.6 of the popular version control tool Apache Subversion was released more than two years ago. In the meantime the requirements of professional software development have changed rapidly and the demands on capabilities and efficiency of version control tools have risen.

 

The Subversion developers are facing the expectations on a system which has been adopted by many commercial software developers.

 

Subversion is now in final preparation for release 1.7. SVN committer Neels Hofmeyr outlines the innovations and expected improvements in the article. (In German)

 

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Professional Article "Hudson im Einsatz: Kontinuierliche Integration mit Makefiles im kommerziellen Umfeld" published in OBJEKTspektrum 02/2010 (Author: Olaf Wagner)

If you use agile methods in complex distributed development scenarios continuous integration of all interim results helps to quickly achieve working solutions. This article describes the use of the open source tool „Hudson“ in a sub-project of a large charging and billing system at Nokia Siemens Networks. The problems emerging were mostly due to the size of the project and the complex test scenarios. The existence of many distributed source repositories (ClearCase VOBs) at various sites makes the standard strategies – checkout, build, and test for each change - seem too slow. Nevertheless, Hudson continuous integration with reasonable response times can be implemented.

 

Please note: The correct URL of the XSD-Definition is www.elegosoft.com/misc/JUnitXSchema.xsd.

 

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Professional Article "Neues in Subversion 1.6" published in entwickler magazin 04/2009 (Authors: Neels Hofmeyr, Stefan Sperling, Stephen Butler)

The Subversion project, which was started in the year 2000, has long ago outgrown the initial goal to be a better CVS. Subversion has since matured to a professional software configuration management tool. It is being adopted by large international organizations and is increasingly superseeding commercial systems.

 

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German Translation of Professional Article "ABCs of a Branching and Merging Strategy" published at CM Crossroads (Author: Mario Moreira; Translator: Neels Hofmeyr)

Branching is both simple and complex. For many, it is challenging to know where to begin. This article hopes to provide a starting point, by highlighting branching concepts, providing reasons for branching, and suggesting an approach to establish a branching and merging strategy.

 

The German translation of the original article was published with the friendly permission of Mario Moreira.

 

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