IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration

Verification in Large Development Environments

We are going to close this chapter with an additional suggestion that we have found surprisingly valuable. One of the most famous phrases that we hear from almost every development group is, “Well, it worked on my machine!” This usually happens when someone is testing a new component for the first time in an integration or system test environment. One of the most insidious reasons for this is that a developer's workspace may slowly become cluttered with old code or perhaps code that he or she neglected to check in to the version management system (yes, discipline processes should prevent this, but they often don't). Rather than waiting for these problems to be found in a central Golden Workspace ...