The Source Integrity Professional Edition User Guide - MKS

Understanding Source Integrity
Managing Development
Promotion
Source Integrity includes two features that help you track the
development process.
The Promotion feature lets you impose a step-by-step
progression on the development cycle.
The Reporter utility lets you view the audit trail of files and
resources.
The Promotion feature lets you track the progress of your product
through the development cycle to a finished product. The Promotion
model at your site
defines your development cycle
specifies how files will be handled at each development stage
controls who can modify development objects at each promotion
state
Although most aspects of the promotion policy at your site will be
defined by your administrator, you can customize some settings
locally.
The development cycle at your site might include the stages
Development, when code is being actively written
Testing, when each code module and application is tested
Release, when the code is declared finished, and distribution
disks can be produced
In this case, your administrator could set Source Integrity promotion
policy as follows:
All development objects must pass through each stage in the
development cycle, from lowest to highest.
During the Development phase, only the Development Leader
can promote objects to the Testing phase. (Source Integrity lets
you define who may promote and demote.)
Any tester can demote an object back to the Development phase
if it fails a test, but only the Quality Assurance Manager can
promote an object to the Release state.
This policy guarantees that the state of every product component
would be obvious at any time, and that each component would pass
through each phase of the development process successfully before
moving on to the next.
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