Distinguishing Features
- Change Packages: Harvest can provide both version control and change management. The developer makes changes in Harvest against a change package (creating a "change set"). The change package(s) will initially consist of a number of files that the developer has either created or amended. This is the version control component of Harvest.
- Life Cycles: Once the developer is satisfied with his/her changes, the changes progress through a pre-defined life cycle (i.e. into a number of sequential TEST stages and finally into PRODUCTION). At all these stages of this "life cycle", the package must have approvals from the appropriate users or user groups. These approvals are recorded permanently for audit purposes. For example, a test manager may have to approve packages prior to moving to the TEST stage, and the production change management team may have to approve packages prior to moving to the PROD state.
- Projects (Environments): Central to Harvest's philosophy is the concept of a Harvest "project". Projects are fully customizable according to an application's, organization's, or team's needs. The term project refers to the entire control framework in Harvest and includes:
- A branch or separate line of development where changes can be isolated (the version control component)
- The definition of processes and how changes progress through the promotional life-cycle
- Access control for processes and file
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