How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code ? w00t!? world!?

How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code

CowboyRobot writes ?Intuit launched QuickBooks in 1992, & it has grown into the best-selling retail software for small-business accounting worldwide. QuickBooks is available on multiple platforms with different feature sets (Pro, Premier, Enterprise), in specialized editions (accounting, contracting, etc.), is available on CD or via subscription, & is offered in localized versions for the U.S., Canada, & the U.K. How they manage so many builds is a case-study for large scale programming. ?The Windows version is approximately 80,000 source files, 10+ million lines of C++ code plus a little C# for the .NET parts. Plus assist files, tax tables, files defining local accounting rules, tax & other government reporting forms, upgrade offers ? a lot of files. Every customer gets the full version. Specific feature sets are turned on & off with the license key.? And the lessons are not just technical. ?One surprising lesson is that small teams work, even for very large codebases ? especially, Burt says, in sustaining an entrepreneurial, creative culture.??

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Source: http://w00t.pro/2012/07/31/6928/

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