Feature branching allows developers to work on user stories or features independently in separate branches without blocking the main trunk. This prevents an unstable trunk and allows incomplete stories to be finished after a release by merging the feature branches later. Developers can work independently in branches and merge completed features into the trunk for a release without blocking other work.

1. Feature Branching: A release day
painkiller
Alan Parkinson
@alan_parkinson

2. The problem
• Scrum like process
• Release to customers every 2 weeks
• Sometimes stories are not finished

3. Unstable “Trunk”
Release 1.0

4. Feature Branching
User Story 12 User Story 15
User Story 9

5. Thank you
Alan Parkinson
alan.parkinson@hindsightsoftware.co.uk
@alan_parkinson