UrbanCode Announces the Availability of Its First White Paper:

A Position on Continuous Integration and Build Management

CLEVELAND, Ohio – December 21, 2007 – UrbanCode announces the availability of "Drawing the Line: Continuous Integration and Build Management", a white paper written by UrbanCode President Maciej Zawadzki. The paper can be viewed or downloaded here.

By describing the practices as closely as possible, the positions taken in this paper are meant to encourage thought, discussion, and evolution within the software development industry. According to Zawadzki, "The paper seeks to get at the true nature of Continuous Integration and Build Management. Understanding the differences between these practices is required to implement them in a meaningful way." Zawadzki continued, "But that goal forms only a part of my motivation in writing this paper. In addition, I hope to aid in clearing up the emergent confusion in recent literature, discussions, and vendor materials regarding what Build Management and Continuous Integration actually are. I believe that each practice may serve as a guidepost for the evolution of thought within our industry, but only if we can distill the practices down to their essences and uncover the confusion about them. This paper is meant to aid the current discussions about these practices."

Those with existing UrbanCode accounts simply enter their e-mail address and password to either read the paper online or download the PDF version. For those without an existing UrbanCode account, one must first be created (at http://www.urbancode.com/html/resources/white-papers/default.html) before gaining access to the paper.

About UrbanCode

Today, with our third-generation tool AnthillPro 3.4 ALA, UrbanCode continues to introduce automation within the software lifecycle. We offer unique innovations in Continuous Integration, Build and Dependency Management, Deployment Automation, Test Orchestration, and Release Management for teams using .NET, Java, and/or native technologies. As part of our commitment, begun in 2001, to deliver agility, governance, and productivity to our enterprise customers, UrbanCode products integrate with most SCM, issue tracking, change management, test orchestration, security, notification, and IDE tools. To address the scalability needs of complex, multinational organizations, we designed our products with distributed architectures that scale to any ecosystem. Our commitment to complete lifecycle automation, management, visibility, and traceability, along with our products' technical depth, form our comparative advantage.

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