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Sorry Rob, that's not the way I read it
" We work directly with production software all the time."
"(And the word "promotion" doesn't even really apply.)"

If I am wrong, then apologies all around


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Frequent promotion does not exclude testing. I see nothing in there which inferred that he didn't have a test/development lpar, a user review committee and so on. Heck, as far as you know, he may have even purchased automated testing tools to run that through a battery of tests. Might even have display or web emulators to test it out.


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From: Alan Shore <ashore@xxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 04/25/2012 11:03 AM
Subject: RE: survey: frequency of in-house coded software
enhancement promotions to production
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Yikes
So your method is "LIVE" testing.
How large a change are you allowed/willing to do?
What do you do if you have to introduce a new process that the system
presently does not have?



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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [
mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Yeung
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 10:57 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: survey: frequency of in-house coded software enhancement
promotions to production

Nathan replied to the list, and I don't mind sharing my responses, so I
will do likewise.

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Stone, Joel <Joel.Stone@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
How often does your shop promote in-house source code enhancements to
production?

This question almost doesn't make sense in our shop. "Promote"? We work
directly with production software all the time.

Ages ago (long, long before I started) the company bought software (that I
guess we would call an ERP today), including source code.
That software got customized beyond all recognition and is now essentially
our company's own custom ERP. We have three RPG programmers, and all of
us just compile directly to production at our discretion.

1) Frequency of promotions into Production of home-grown software
enhancements (not break/fix patches & not vendor upgrades) - ie daily,
weekly, monthly, or anytime.

Any time. (And the word "promotion" doesn't even really apply.)

2) Do you agree with the frequency?

Yes. For our shop and our software, it would not be cost-effective (and
perhaps just plain not effective) to have more layers, more bureaucracy,
and more formal processes.

3) What problems do you see with the frequency?

It does depend on the three of us knowing what we're doing, and
communicating with each other. (So it's not resistant to incompetent or
unprofessional team members. But all of us have been here more than 10
years, and we haven't added anyone new in that time.)

John
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