Software Configuration Management Strategies and IBM® Rational® ClearCase®: A Practical Introduction, Second Edition

Chapter 9. Integration

To integrate means to form, coordinate, or blend into a functioning or unified whole. Integration within software development is the act of bringing together separate efforts into one. During software development, there are many forms of integration, and they can occur at different places within the software development life cycle and at different times. For instance, before you can expose your software-development effort to another group for testing and verification, you need to make sure that you have all your features and defects together in a place where they can be built and assembled into whatever form your application or product needs to exist in before it can be tested. It is critical to define within your software ...