Recipe 10Making It Easy for New Developers to Join the Team

Problem: Is integrating into an existing team or starting work with a new team difficult?

When new team members join a project, usually it takes some time for them to get acquainted with the way the team works, the way databases are used, and how the application's architecture is set up. Databases are often difficult to understand, and the fear of breaking the database for others means new team members can be hesitant to make changes, hindering how quickly they learn.

Solution

You can make it easier for new developers joining your project if all they have to do is check out code from the source repository, change connection parameters in the build.properties file, and then use Ant targets ...

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