Proposal to revise forest graph and integration practices for JDK 9 (original) (raw)

Jonathan Gibbons jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
Mon Dec 2 11:35:37 PST 2013

On 12/01/2013 09:14 PM, Joe Darcy wrote:

We've found the "Continuous Delivery" book by Jez Humble and David Farley to be useful.

Some relevant quotes from the first chapter or two of that text:

If It Hurts, Do It More Frequently, and Bring the Pain Forward "This is the most general principle on our list, and could perhaps best be described as a heuristic. But it is perhaps the most useful heuristic we know of in the context of delivering software, and it informs everything we say." Integration is often a very painful process. "If this is true of your project, integrate every time somebody checks in, and do it from the start of the project. If testing is a painful process that occurs just before release, don’t do it at the end. Instead, do it continually from the beginning of the project."

I like the term "Continuous Delivery" as compared to "Continuous Integration" since Integration is such as loaded term in our current infrastructure.

I also like +100 the comment about testing ...

-- Jon

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