Chapter 9. Lifecycle Management

by Dietmar Aust

Every application changes over time. Keeping track of different software versions in multiple environments (development, test, and production) quickly becomes a nontrivial task which every developer has to confront.

In this chapter we will detail best practices acquired from developing and maintaining multiple real-world projects for customers over the years. These procedures have proven to be very effective and reliable, significantly improving the quality of the delivered applications. They originated, for the most part, from the experiences of our project team at the German Telecom Shops, where we developed and maintained an APEX application over the last four years.

To successfully deliver high-quality ...

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