You have recently delivered the first phase of a mission-critical software intensive system. All of your customers and stakeholders are very happy, and you proceed with the second phase of development. This phase will add another set of highly desired features and will take about a year to develop and deliver. You are doing incremental development, so multiple internal versions will be built and tested prior to delivery. You currently use a configuration management system, with all development organized in the trunk. You have a release plan which generally specifies the iteration in which the second phase features will be developed. All is going according to plan. About two months into the second phase, you get a call from your user point of contact. They have an urgent problem with the system and need you to address it. You have additional resources (developers, testers, equipment, etc) available to address the problem. However, it will require simultaneous development on the same system, with one team working on the fix and the other on the second phase. Part 1)Explain how you would adapt the software process to simultaneously address the fix and continue work on the second phase features Part 2) Would you make any changes to your configuration management strategy to accommodate the fix? Why or why not? Part 3)How would you structure testing of the fix prior to delivery? Part 4) Would you consider including any features of Phase 2 in the “fix” delivery? What factors would drive your decision?
You have recently delivered the first phase of a mission-critical software intensive system. All of your customers and stakeholders are very happy, and you proceed with the second phase of development. This phase will add another set of highly desired features and will take about a year to develop and deliver. You are doing incremental development, so multiple internal versions will be built and tested prior to delivery. You currently use a configuration management system, with all development organized in the trunk. You have a release plan which generally specifies the iteration in which the second phase features will be developed. All is going according to plan. About two months into the second phase, you get a call from your user point of contact. They have an urgent problem with the system and need you to address it. You have additional resources (developers, testers, equipment, etc) available to address the problem. However, it will require simultaneous development on the same system, with one team working on the fix and the other on the second phase.
Part 1)Explain how you would adapt the software process to simultaneously address the fix and continue work on the second phase features
Part 2) Would you make any changes to your configuration management strategy to accommodate the fix? Why or why not?
Part 3)How would you structure testing of the fix prior to delivery?
Part 4) Would you consider including any features of Phase 2 in the “fix” delivery? What factors would drive your decision?
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