In the last few chapters we looked at various Trac features and learned the basics of Subversion. We will now put all this together and see how using our solution can help us manage software development.
We will look at the two specific activities that are repeated most often during the software development process—implementing a new feature and fixing a bug—and follow the work flow through each of them.
One popular way to view an application is as a collection of features. What are features? Features allow our application to be useful, or may even be its reason for existing. Consider the ubiquitous text editor—a pretty simple application at first glance. It not only lets us edit text, but also open, save, and print files. Of course features can have sub‑features; text editing will also include things like cut, copy, and paste, spell check, formatting, etc.
Thinking of an application in terms of features (sub-features, and sub-sub...