Today, I was working on a "Story branch" in Git. I was developing the "Embed Events" page, which included some changes to the /config/routes.rb file, a new View, and modifications to /controllers/events_controller.rb. Before I started working on the Feature, which is represented by a User Story and Cards on our Card Wall in Scrum Ninja... before I started working on the Feature, I checked out a "Story branch", naming it "Story-123456", according to its 6-digit number in Scrum Ninja.

Then, I got down to coding, writing tests first, specifying the behavior required to make a specific function work as cleanly as possible. Then, I run the tests, to ensure they fail. - I haven't written the proper code to deliver the functionality I've specified - So I wrote the code and tested it in small increments, working back and forth between testing and coding, testing, and coding.

A "Testing Harness" is developed to exercise the specific behaviors of the objects in your working application. Testing, in practice, helps develop and instill conscious programming awareness.

So, ya, I wrote some code, made sure the tests ran, and a click-through of the application worked as expected. Then, it was time to check-in code. First, I committed my changes to my "Story-123456" branch. Then, I re-based the changes I made in the Story-123456 branch onto the Master branch. I did this by using the following commands: git checkout story-123456, then git rebase story-123456 master. After re-basing the changes, the Master branch now has the additional changes made in the Story-123456 branch. So, I pushed Master out to Github, (git push master github) and was ready to deploy.

The rebase feature in Git is useful for merging back a string of commits that diverge from a branch. It makes developing in Story branches pretty easy and clean.