Roles and code

From a DevOps point of view, it is important to leverage the natural meeting point that a source code management tool is. Many different roles have a use for source code management in its wider meaning. It is easier to do so for technically-minded roles but harder for other roles, such as project management.

Developers live and breathe source code management. It's their bread and butter.

Operations personnel also favor managing the descriptions of infrastructure in the form of code, scripts, and other artifacts, as we will see in the coming chapters. Such infrastructural descriptors include network topology, versions of software that should be installed on particular servers, and so on.

Quality assurance personnel can store their automated tests in codified form in the source code repository. This is true for software testing frameworks such as Selenium and Junit, among others.

There is a problem with the documentation of the manual steps needed to perform various tasks, though...