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My report on SCM systems.

TobiasTheViking

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This is a little (54 pages on a total of 2410 lines) on System Configuration Management, if that kind of thing interests you, check it out.

Lets hope i haven't done anything TOTALLY retarded in this report.

NOTE: presenting this as my semester project wednesday the 21st, so lets not pray that it turns out well now shall we?

Sincerely
Tobias


Report: http://tobiasserver.ath.cx/hosting/Synopsis.pdf
 
couldn't get your link to work "Page cannot be displayed"
 
Hm, ok, having some problems, so maybe it was down a bit during the night,i know for a fact that it will go down a bit within the next few hours.. sorry about that.
 
None of the systems you tested are advertised as "software configuration mamagement" systems and so I think two of your tests are unfair. I use subversion myself and I think the developers would argue that regression testing is part of some change control framework of which svn would be a tool to control source code revisions. Developers of the other systems would have similar arguments I suspect.

Furthermore, I don't know how valid your data integrity tests are. I don't know of any database system where randomly changing files within it has consistent results. The best thing you can do in such a situation is report an error and advise the admin to restore the back ups.

Finally, your file safety test is too simplistic. You need to include tests for adding deleting and renaming files and even changing the directory structure. You also need to test what happens if an update of multiple files is interrupted mid way (logical consistency). Many source code changes involve multiple files. You need to make sure that all the changes are present in the repository or none are.
 
jeremyp said:
None of the systems you tested are advertised as "software configuration mamagement" systems and so I think two of your tests are unfair. I use subversion myself and I think the developers would argue that regression testing is part of some change control framework of which svn would be a tool to control source code revisions. Developers of the other systems would have similar arguments I suspect.

Furthermore, I don't know how valid your data integrity tests are. I don't know of any database system where randomly changing files within it has consistent results. The best thing you can do in such a situation is report an error and advise the admin to restore the back ups.

Finally, your file safety test is too simplistic. You need to include tests for adding deleting and renaming files and even changing the directory structure. You also need to test what happens if an update of multiple files is interrupted mid way (logical consistency). Many source code changes involve multiple files. You need to make sure that all the changes are present in the repository or none are.
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*sniff* you are so mean to me. :)

I'll take it into account, thanks :)
 
TobiasTheCommie said:
*sniff* you are so mean to me. :)

I'll take it into account, thanks :)
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Sorry.

I've just read that it's a "semester project" due to be handed in this week, so my comments are a bit late really. I'm also not sure what level of detail a "semester project" should go into, so, in that context, perhaps my comments are over the top.
 
jeremyp said:
Sorry.

I've just read that it's a "semester project" due to be handed in this week, so my comments are a bit late really. I'm also not sure what level of detail a "semester project" should go into, so, in that context, perhaps my comments are over the top.
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No, not at all, always good with constructive critique. And you weren't mean. Anyways, this report is not what i have to hand in, i have to make a presentation, the report i just did to have some data to make my presentation from. So i can still work it into my presentation(simply stating which errors i have made, which areas i forgot to check, how it should be done, and why it should be done, will probably suffice.).

Thanks a bunch for your input. :) don't worry.
 
How did the presentation go?

Edited - Oh, I assume you got A+ for the presentation.
 
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