Build Audit and Processes: A line of sight from DEV to PROD
Alec Clews
Standard (30 minutes) on Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:00 - 12:30 in room Room 3
TAGS: Development Tools, Development Process & Project Management, git make softwarebuilding process audit compliance
Both agile and waterfall approaches to software delivery are a way to translate business needs into production features. Being able to trace that path is often crucial to affective delivery (and sometimes passing critical compliance regulations). Frequently the activity of software building breaks these important traceability links because of poor process and technology.
This presentation briefly examines these problems and looks at various approaches to overcoming them. An emphasis is placed on using processes and version control tool to provide a) Useful information and b) Audit trails of individual builds. A simple, illustrative, example using the Git distributed version control tool is demonstrated.
Experience with version Control and software building tools is assumed.
This presentation was first given at Devops Down Under 2010 and is available at http://www.slideshare.net/alecclews/dev-opsdownunderpresentation
All delegates attending this session must bring and ensure:
Alec Clews
Principal Consultant
Voga Consulting Services
Alec has over 30 years of working with computers (he first wrote a BASIC program on a timeshare ICL mainframe in Sept 1978) and has spent the last 15 years working on, or with, software development processes and related tools. He has managed development teams, written code and worked for tool vendors. Currently he is a independent consultant advising on and implementing various aspects of processes and related technology. His profile is at http://linkedin.com/in/alecclews and he can be found online as alecthegeek. He drinks too much espresso, uses Linux as much as possible and wishes he was a better Perl programmer.