These days about every adept in software engineering knows what version control (VC) is: A tool to commit changes into remote repositories. It is seen as replacement for some sort of postal system, where the source code is literally sent to a superior or customer.
But there are more aspects to know about it, which I am going to write a about taking Subversion (SVN) as an example. One of it is lowering the barrier of committing code and enabling to maintain flow. (more…)
One of the most important challenges to face first is leveraging developers’ time for maximum efficiency. At qKAI this is especially due to students, writing their theses, contribute to the code base. Therefore we have established several tools to spare them redundant work, maintain a constant code quality and automate the build.