[cfaussie] Re: upgrade strategies (enterprise software)

2011-03-28 Thread Gavin Baumanis
Hi Barry, I must be taking the stupid pills today. Is the new functionality already coded and available - and simply not just included at the moment? Or does it still need to be created? If it is indeed ready-to-go, then I agree with Steve, and a virtual machine / separate instance would seem

Re: [cfaussie] Re: upgrade strategies (enterprise software)

2011-03-28 Thread Barry Beattie
thanks Gav I'd do something along the lines of; Create a new branch in your repository (SVN / Git / etc) of choice and use that branch as the ApplicationRoot for the application that the BAs/Testers use. That way, any changes you end up making can now be tracked and more easily merged back