Susan Yeshin

As the software development process becomes ever more complex, end users demand more and more functionality in less and less time. Companies are extending their business applications to run on both intranets and the Internet, and new applications have to run on many different platforms. All this calls for large development teams to design, build and maintain applications. Often, an entire team of managers, developers and testers have to work together to deliver an end product. Team members share more than responsibility for developing the code; they also share the actual files that contain the code. Thus it's essential to control each team member's access to the code and how code changes affect others. To manage the activities of the team, many application development products provide source code management tools and team programming environments in which the roles... (more)