Common Development Practices

Git

Branches

• EC Branching Policy for our standard branches, feature branches, when and how to merge, and when to delete
• Using Releases to make sure merged changes work well together and can be tested as a group
• The Branch Lifecycle for a walkthrough of a repo's branches as features are worked on and then deployed

Bitbucket

• Syncing gitBare to Bitbucket to make sure our own repos are kept in sync with Bitbucket, for Jira integration and sharing with clients
• Using Pull Requests to review changes before being merged in

Jira

• Creating and managins Releases

QA

• The PHPQA tool on Github: A pipeline for scanning code for problems and difficulties
• PHPQA on the Handbook: Our documentation on the PHPQA tool
• Using PHP Unit for unit testing PHP code