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Program Management for Open Source Projects
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Program Management for Open Source Projects

by Ben Cotton
July 2022
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
5h 27m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Freeze the Code

Problem: The QA team is having trouble verifying the behavior because the code base keeps changing.

Itʼs much easier to inspect something thatʼs holding still. This is true for code, too. As the release approaches, the testing effort shifts from verifying individual changes to looking at the product as a whole. The QA team needs to have a relatively stable code base to test so they can be sure the release criteria are met. If a test was performed yesterday but the code changes today, how can we be sure it still works without rerunning all of the tests?

A code freeze provides an unmoving code base for testing. Some projects use the term “merge window” instead, which is essentially the time when a freeze isn’t in effect. In either ...

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