Your teams can develop multiple features simultaneously without overwriting work and causing conflicts by implementing branched application development. During branched development, developers can make changes in one ruleset that affect other developers only after you merge the changes into a target ruleset. As a result, you speed up application development and can clearly analyze what changes your application includes.

For example, by using branches, two teams can work simultaneously on different application features, such as case type creation and notifications. Each team can make can make changes that do not affect the changes of the other team during the development process, even if the features use the same base rulesets. When the development process is complete, you can review branches to resolve any conflicts, and then merge the results into a target ruleset in order to make the new features available in the final version of your application.

To learn more about branched application development, see the following articles:

• Branches and branch rulesets

  Branches help you manage work in development environments in which multiple teams contribute to a single application. You use branches to develop software simultaneously in a version-controlled environment. For example, a team can develop a feature in one branch while another team develops another feature in a different branch, even if the teams share the same rulesets.

• Configuring an application to use branches and branch rulesets

  To use branches in your application, you create a development application that is built on your production application. You create rules and save them in your development application, creating branch rulesets. You can then work with branches in a number of ways, such as creating branch reviews and merging branches.

• Branch operations

  After you create branches and develop rules in branch rulesets, you can work with branches in a number of ways. For example, you can create branch reviews with other users, delete branches form the system, and lock branches before you merge them.

• Understanding continuous integration and delivery pipelines
• Unit testing individual rules
• Troubleshooting tools and techniques

• Designing applications for reuse and extension