5.1. The integration and release management function

The integration and release management function is the backbone of your Agile ALM. How your integration and release ecosystem will look depends a lot on your development process and your individual requirements, but in this chapter, I’ll explain commonly used practices and implement them with tools.

Developers write the software, checking their sources and build scripts into a VCS (such as Subversion). Developers implement requirements in their workspaces. They check in and update sources to the VCS, as shown in figure 5.1.