Book Image

Managing Software Development with Trac and Subversion

By : David J Murphy
Book Image

Managing Software Development with Trac and Subversion

By: David J Murphy

Overview of this book

<p><br />Trac is a minimalistic open-source enhanced wiki and bug/issue tracking system for software development projects, designed to help developers while staying out of the way and provides an interface to Subversion. Subversion is an open-source version control system that addresses many of the perceived deficiencies of CVS and can use WebDAV for network communications, and the Apache web server to provide repository-side network service.<br /><br />This book presents a simple set of processes and practices that allow you to manage these projects using open-source software without getting in the way by imposing as little as possible on established development practices and policies.<br /><br />This book looks at what is needed to manage software development projects, how web-based software project management system Trac and open-source revision control system Subversion meet these needs, and how to install, configure, and use them.</p> <p><a href="http://www.packtpub.com/article/managing-software-development-with-trac-and-subversion-table-of-contents"><br /></a></p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter we saw how to address the two most common tasks during a software development project—adding a feature and fixing a bug. We not only saw the common work flow shared by these two activities but also how they differ. We looked at how to plan work using milestones and use tags in Subversion to mark significant moments in time—like the completion of our milestones.

With our knowledge of project management for software development, our project server using Trac and Subversion, and the skills and processes for using them to add features and fix bugs, we are now ready to manage our software development.