IBM SC34-4499-03 manual Build, Approval

the parts modi®ed for the speci®ed defect or feature in one release and records the status of the defect or feature. The work area moves through successive states during its life cycle. The TeamConnection actions that you can perform against a work area depend on its current state.

You must use the track subprocess if you want to use any of the other release subprocesses.

approval

This subprocess ensures that a designated approver agrees with the decision to incorporate changes into a particular release and electronically signs a record. As soon as approval is given, the changes can be made.

®x This subprocess ensures that as users check in parts associated with a work area, an action is taken to indicate that they have completed their portion. When everyone is done, the owner of the ®x record(usually the component owner) can change the ®x record to complete. The parts are then ready for integration.

driver A driver is a collection of all the work areas that are to be integrated with each other and with the unchanged parts in the release at a particular time. The driver subprocess allows you to include these changes incrementally so that their impact can be evaluated and veri®ed before additional changes are incorporated. Each work area that is included in a driver is called a driver member.

test The test subprocess guarantees that testing occurs prior to verifying that the ®x is correct within the release.

TeamConnection is shipped with several prede®ned processes. If these do not apply to your organization, you can con®gure your own processes by de®ning different combinations of subprocesses.

See ªChapter 4. The states of TeamConnection objectsº on page 41 for an explanation of TeamConnection states.

Build

The TeamConnection build function automates the process of building individual parts or entire applications, both in the work group LAN environment and on an enterprise server. This function enables you to reliably and repeatedly build the same output from the same inputs. You can also build different outputs from the same inputs for different environments.

You start a build against an output part that has an associated builder. A builder is an object that describes how to translate input parts to get the desired output, such as a linker or compiler. An input part might have an associated parser, which determines the dependencies for the input parts in a build.

The build function does the following:

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