6th European Banking Supervisors XBRL Workshop Madrid 4, 5 October 2006 Version Control Pablo Santos...

6th European Banking Supervisors XBRL WorkshopMadrid 4, 5 October 2006

Version ControlPablo SantosCódice [email protected]

Outline

• About Códice Software

• Plastic SCM

• Configuration Management Basics

• CM applied to XBRL project

• Conclusions and future work

About Códice Software

• A software engineering company

• Clear goal: SCM product

• SCM for all kind of developments

Plastic SCM

• SCM (Software Configuration Management) -> it is all about managing change (sw is easy to change)

• Technology foundation to build upon

• Focused on parallel development (allowing teams to collaborate)

Plastic SCM

• Fast

• Reliable (cluster testing)

• Feature rich

• Multiplatform: Windows, Linux, Solaris

Configuration Management Basics

Basic concepts

• Repository (n-dimensional file system)

• Workspace• Item• Revision• Branch• Marker

• Items

• Revisions


Branches



Merging


Merging

Organizational branching

There are many other patterns:• Branch per task• Purpose• Feature• …

• Managing the development process

• Freedom to change (supervisors)

• Track all changes

Plastic SCM applied to XBRL

Plastic SCM applied to XBRL

Plastic SCM applied to XBRL (file history)

• Who

• When

• Why (comments)

Plastic SCM applied to XBRL (security)

• Fine grained security

• Access Control Lists (ACLs)

• Know who is changing what…

Plastic SCM applied to XBRL (check outs)

Plastic SCM applied to XBRL (branching)

• A branch to track changes for each country

Plastic SCM applied to XBRL (differences)

• Know exactly what has been changed on a branch (country)

• Syntax Differences

Plastic SCM applied to XBRL (version tree)

• Exact history of a given element (directory or file)

• Merge information (where a version comes from)

Plastic SCM applied to XBRL (merging)

Plastic SCM applied to XBRL (maintenance)

• Create a branch for stable release maintenance

Plastic SCM applied to XBRL (bug tracking)

EntregaEntrega

Task

Unit Tests

FinishedTasks

Validation

Automated Tests

Release

ProjectManager

DevelopmentEngineers

ReleaseEngineers

Test Group

Consultant

Conclusions and future work

[email protected]@codicesoftware.comwww.codicesoftware.com

• Manage all changes

• Basics covered, more to come

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