Workflow Integrating Strategies

[NathanFink]

As a developer, I need to understand how to create pull requests (PRs) linked to tasks, how to integrate changes from branches into the master branch using different workflow integration strategies and how to correctly establish traceability between commits and tasks (and pull requests), so that I will be proficient and effective in working in the remaining sprints of the group project, while emphasizing and practicing software engineering techniques for writing high quality software.

Acceptance Criteria:

• Given a branch with the name task_<ID_of_task_it_implements>_<some_short_task_description> containing changes that are not yet integrated into master, when a new pull request is created (having the base branch master and the compare branch task_<ID_of_task_it_implements>_<some_short_task_description>), then the description of the PR should reference the task it implements (i.e., #<ID_of_task_it_implements>)
• Given the PR for branch task_2_merge, when the branch is integrated into master, then the Merge pull request integration option of the PR should be used, and the commit message should be the default one provided by GitHub (e.g., Merge pull request #<ID_PR> from <yourGitHubUserName>/task_2_merge)
• Given the PR for branch task_3_rebase, when the branch is integrated into master, then the Rebase and merge integration option of the PR should be used
• Given the PR for branch task_4_squash, when the branch is integrated into master, then the Squash and merge integration option of the PR should be used, and the commit message should be the default one provided by GitHub (e.g., Task 4 squash (#<ID_PR>))
• Given the PR for branch task_5_squash_with_link_to_task, when the branch is integrated into master, then the Squash and merge integration option of the PR should be used, and the commit message should be Closes #5 (#<ID_PR>); In this way, any developer inspecting the commit in master can directly navigate to task #5 or to the PR (to see all the intermediate commits for the implementation)
• Given the PR for branch task_6_squash_preferred_project_workflow, when the branch is integrated into master, then the Squash and merge integration option of the PR should be used, and the commit message should be Closes #6 (#<ID_PR>); In this way any developer inspecting the commit in master can directly navigate to task #6 (which will be referenced by only one "atomic" commit containing the final implementation of the task) or to the PR (which will contain all the intermediate commits for the implementation, without any traceability to the task)
• Given a PR for a branch with the name task_<ID_of_task_it_implements>_<some_short_task_description>, when the changes from the branch are successfully integrated into master and the PR is closed, then the branch is deleted (using the GitHub interface)