HOWTO: Use Pin and Label for Quality Assurance

WINDOWS   | WINDOWS NT

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Windows, versions 4.0, 5.0
• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Windows NT, versions 4.0, 5.0
• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Windows 95, versions 4.0, 5.0

SUMMARY

It might be a good idea to freeze or pin a project to allow for a Code review while development continues on a SourceSafe controlled software project. This article shows by example how to do it.

MORE INFORMATION

Back in the days when configuration management was done manually, there was a point in the development cycle where code was frozen for code review by a Quality Assurance team. This method of source control does not work in today's fast-paced development cycle. SourceSafe is project oriented and therefore has a different mechanism than other source control products for providing this important functionality.

Step-by-Step Example

Situation: An inprogress project Named myproject is ready for Quality Assurance code review. Follow these steps:

1. Label myproject at the project level by highlighting the project in the SourceSafe Explorer and clicking the label icon.

2. Add a label, such as Submitted to QA.

3. Using the history icon, choose to retrieve labels only.

4. Select the proper label, and then click the share button.

5. Move the selector to the proper level (often, just one level up in the project tree), and name the new project "QA version." Select the recursive check box, if applicable, and click OK.

REFERENCES

User's Guide "Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe", p. 64.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q139298
   TITLE     : How to Include Specific File Revisions in a Project Label