One of the questions I get asked a lot is how to customize the Firefox installer on Windows and how to bundle extensions with it. I’ve spent the past few days learning a great deal about this subject, so I thought I would take this opportunity to provide a refresher on working with the Firefox…
Employees never feel at ease under a boss who doesn’t trust them or whom they don’t trust. In the absence of mutual trust productivity falls as the employees get into politics, covering their backs and other inefficient activity. Not trusting each other will affect confidence, which leads to a deterioration in customer satisfaction as the…
USC CodeCount and USC COCOMO- $0 CodeCount automates the collection of source code sizing information. The CodeCount toolset utilizes one of two possible source lines of code (SLOC) definitions, physical or logical. COCOMO (COnstructive COst MOdel), is a tool which allows one to estimate the cost, effort, and schedule associated with a prospective software development project. Languages: Ada,…
JSP/HTML land, usefull tests could be done via some regexp, ie check if style/css are used (to avoid dirty colors/fonts hard-coded for example). If we want to build something pretty robust and extensible, I think we should integrate a java library which is able to transform a XHTML or badly formatted HTML document into a…
Short for HyperText Transfer Protocol, the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web. HTTP defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. For example, when you enter a URL in your browser, this actually sends an HTTP command to the Web…
Abbreviated as BIND, Berkeley Internet Name Domain is the most common implementation of the DNS protocol on the Internet. It’s freely available under the BSD License. BIND DNS servers are believed to be providing about 80 percent of all DNS services. BIND was developed by the University of California at Berkeley. The most current release is BIND 9.4.2,…
Short for Domain Name System (or Service or Server), an Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses. Because domain names are alphabetic, they’re easier to remember. The Internet however, is really based on IP addresses. Every time you use a domain name, therefore, a DNS service must translate the name into the corresponding IP…
SSH Secure Shell provides users with a secure, encrypted mechanism to log into systems and transfer files; it can be viewed as a secure replacement for FTP. Developed by SSH Communications Security Ltd., Secure Shell is a program to log into another computer over a network, to execute commands in a remote machine, and to move…
Network File System (NFS) is a network file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a network in a manner similar to how local storage is accessed. NFS, like many other protocols, builds on the Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call (ONC RPC)…
Basic RPM Tutorials Introduction: RPM is the RPM Package Manager. It is an open packaging system available for anyone to use. It allows users to take source code for new software and package it into source and binary form such that binaries can be easily installed and tracked and source can be rebuilt easily. It also maintains a…
Based on feedback of Fabricefrom Squale, Please find a difference between Sonar and Squale In a nutshell, we could say that Sonar is good at gathering code metrics and displaying them in various visualisations, mainly targeting technical people, while Squale is good at aggregating those metrics into high level factors to address top-level managers. In…
By Rambabu Muppuri 2810 days ago Comments (3) can u pl help me anyone introduction of msbuild? Hi Guys, can u pl help me anyone Introduction of MSbuild? Regards, Rambabu.M Rajesh Kumar 2807 days ago MSBuild Overview The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the new build platform for Microsoft and Visual Studio. MSBuild is completely transparent with regards to…
ANTHILLPRO COMPARISON WITH ATLASSIAN BAMBOO AnthillPro Vs Bamboo OR Difference between AnthillPro and Bamboo OR Last month i was discussing with Eric Minick from Anthillpro on Why Build Engineer should be go for AnthillPro instead of Bamboo and i found some interesting inputs which i am sharing below; Introduction Bamboo is a respectable team level continuous…
What is Perl Perl is a programming language, It’s Object Oriented, simple to learn and very powerful. Perl stand for: “Practical Extraction and Reporting Language”. Perl is an Interpreted language, so you don’t have to compile it like you do Java, C, C++ etc. For fast development work, that’s a godsend. Perl is a versatile,…
What is Agile Software Development Methodology? Agile development practices increase the velocity at which software teams deliver customer value by improving everyone’s visibility into project features, quality and status. BROAD DEFINITION: Agile software development refers to a group of software development methodologies based on iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing…
Jetty is a 100% pure Java-based HTTP server and servlet container (application server). Jetty is a free and open source project under the Apache 2.0 License. Jetty is used by several other popular projects including the Geronimo application server and by the Google Web Toolkit plug-in for Eclipse. Jetty deployment focuses on creating a simple, efficient, embeddable and pluggable web server….
Types of Build in Remote Agent Build Management tools has one one capability where they can share the infrasture to build the product in less time with the help of Remote Agent Machine. There are following types of build in remote Agent. Distributed processing Build: A distributed build is one in which individual steps in the Workflow…
Metrics Tools Category Metric Comment RSM Sonar Function Metrics LOC Lines of Code Per Function, All Functions Yes Yes eLOC (Effective LOC) Per Function, All Functions Yes Yes lLOC (Logical Statements LOC) Per Function, All Functions Yes No FP Function Points Derived from LOC metrics Per Function, All Functions Yes No Comments Lines Per Function,…
The previous chapters outlined the state of CM technology from the standpoint of a spectrum of concepts underlying automated CM, and from the standpoint of the reflection of some of these concepts in commercial CM products. Clearly, no CM product supports all CM concepts; similarly, not all CM concepts are necessary in the support of…
Software CM is a discipline for controlling the evolution of software systems. Classic discussions about CM are given in texts such as [6] and [8]. A standard definition taken from IEEE standard 729-1983 [42] highlights the following operational aspects of CM: Identification: an identification scheme reflects the structure of the product, identifies components and their…
Roles of CM Users and Views of CM Different views of CM emanate from the different roles and concerns of people in an organization. A simple, typical, CM user scenario of an organization is described in order to present the various roles and the subsequent views of CM support. The scenario involves various people with…
Following are the steps for a complete clean build: 1. Build project (compilation)—In the build phase, the build system compiles operating system (OS) component source files and produces libraries. The basic unit of componentization in Windows CE is the library—components are not conditionally compiled. Because of this, components can be mixed and matched without worrying…
By Bob Aiello 2876 days ago Comments (2) configuration management jobs careers Hey everyone – we are having a discussion about getting started in CM – in the CM Crossroads forums http://bit.ly/awKvKA. Please feel free to respond here, in the forums or contact me directly at bob.aiello@ieee.org Bob Aiello Editor in Chief CM Crossroads http://www.linkedin.com/in/BobAiello ______________________________________________________________ Hi Rajesh – did you actually…
Some of the features in TFSC are fairly standard among SCC tools: Workspace creation Workspace synchronization File checkout Overlapping checkout by multiple users of the same file Atomic change-set check-in File diffs Automated merge Code-line branching File-set labeling User management and security What really sets TFSC apart from the competition is its powerful merging and…
The merging functionality in TFSC is centered on the following typical development scenarios: Scenario 1: The catch-up merge— The user wants to merge all changes from a source branch that have not yet been migrated to the target branch. The source and target can be a subtree or an individual file/folder. Scenario 2: The catch-up no-merge— The…
Branching in TFSC Branching is the SCM operation of creating an independent line of development for one or more files. In a sense, branching a file results in two identical copies of the original file that can be modified as desired. Changes in the old line are not, by default, reflected in the new line and…
A contributor syncs his workspace and takes his laptop home for the evening. At home, he continues working and chooses to check out a file. An unmodified copy of the checked-out file is placed in the contributor’s cache on his local computer. The contributor continues to work and check out additional files. Unmodified copies of…
The build lab should include some high-end hardware for building the applications. Because the entire team depends on the results of a build, the high-end computers ensure that the build is completed as quickly as possible. Furthermore, you can use high-speed network equipment to push bits around from source control to build machines to release…
XML Is the Here, the Now, and the Future XML is short for Extensible Markup Language, which is a specification developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). XML is a pared-down version of SGML, designed especially for Web documents. It allows designers to create their own customized tags, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and…
Repository— The data store containing all files and folders in the TFSC database. Mapping— An association of a repository path with a local working folder on the client computer. Working folder— A directory on the client computer containing a local copy of some subset of the files and folders in a repository. Workspace— A definition…