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Plastic SCM by Codice Software

May 2007 - Posts

  • Smashing the bug for fun and profit

    Yes, the title is not very original, but I always wanted to write something similar since I first read this article long, long ago. Well, so far you've watched Plastic 3D version tree displaying huge trees, running on Linux, controlled by a gamepad...
  • Fear of merging

    Yes, at the end it is all about merging ;-) Well, now I have the opportunity to talk with people all around the globe who start using Plastic SCM for their development, and from time to time (more often than not) I find developers who are totally scared...
  • Linus Torvalds on GIT and SCM

    I just finished watching the speech Linus Torvalds gave some days ago at Google, basically talking about GIT and Source Control Management. He has really strong opinions but I think the video is really worth watching. To be honest I was very shocked by...
  • New query system

    While part of the team was spreading the Plastic word in Oxford, Rubén has been working hard to complete the new query system and we are already using it internally. I started looking at it today, and found it to be very powerful! Just some samples: Query...
  • SCM meeting at Oxford, UK

    We've been at Oxford, UK, at the 3rd Conference and Exhibition of the British Computer Society Configuration Management Specialist Group (BCS CMSG). During the past two days (15th and 16th May 2007) we have been presenting Plastic SCM at our booth...
  • Plastic SCM GUI testing

    Last week I wrote about the three basic layers of testing we run here at Codice to check Plastic SCM functionality release after release. Each weekly release (or almost weekly depending on the specific workload) passes through long hours of automated...
  • CMMi Level 2!

    Last March 15th we achieved CMMi Level 2, and SEI has just officially published the results today . Codice Software becomes the first Spanish SME being awarded with CMMi. But our case has an special interest because we are agile practitioners , we are...
  • Command line Plastic Testing...

    I already wrote about the way we are doing testing at DDJ months ago, when I first introduced PNUnit (Parallel NUnit). We are currently using 3 layers of tests to check Plastic SCM: * The first one is conventional unit testing using NUnit. Here we check...
  • New PlasticSCM-Linux installation features

    We have been working on the installers for the platforms supported. We tried to make installation even easier! As a result, the main innovation is the installation upgrades which we are releasing soon. These will easily update one version to a newer one...
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