Note of "Debugging Applications for MS.Net and MS Windows": Chapter 2

Getting Started Debugging

1. Track changes until you throw away the project

• 2 tools: version control and bug tracking;
• Version control shall check in the unit test program as well;
• Control changes: "Green, yellow, and red times", in green time, new features are added to the project and checked in; yellow time is for bug fix, only bug fixes can be checked in, no new features (detailed bug fix description in the check-in comment); the release time or code freeze is indicated by red time, the code check-in needs project manager's approval.
• Check the risk of the bug to determine whether the code has to be checked in during the red time.
• Labelling: A. Label all internal milestones; B. label any transition from green, yellow, or red development times; C. label any build sent to someone outside the team; D. Label any time you branch a development tree in the version control software; label after daily build and smoke tests complete correctly.
• How to reprevent the trouble reproducing the builds sent to outside: archive the build tree on CD/DVD, including all source code and built binaries.