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Archive for 'Delivery'

Recognising Launch Anxiety

With every project there will come a time during testing where the bugs are being raised, and fixed and classified in the usual way:

Blocking bug – can’t launch with one of these
Major bug – don’t want to launch with more than X of these
Minor bug – don’t want to launch with more than Y of [...]

Integrating SVN and Mantis on WAMP

A superb blog article here:
http://alt-tag.com/blog/archives/2006/11/integrating-mantis-and-subversion/
describes how to integrate SVN and Mantis, however the post-commit hook is for linux.  To do this on windows:
post-commit.bat
SET REPOS=%1
SET REV=%2
SET TMP_LOG=%TEMP%.\svnfileTMP-%REV%
D:\<svnhome>\bin\svnlook log -r %REV% %REPOS%>%TMP_LOG%

D:\<phphome>\php.exe -q D:\<mantishome>\core\checkin.php < %TMP_LOG%

Quality not quantity

As an SME consulting company, we often come up against large offshore development set-ups and the classic accountancy argument “We’ll use them as their day rates are a fraction of yours”.  There is an obvious problem with this – software development is complicated and expertise gained over years of coding, integrating and testing can lead [...]