Future Trends in Trunk-Based Development
- Practices for Collaborative Coding: Ongoing development of more cooperative coding techniques, maybe including functionalities like in-development real-time pair programming support.
- Integration of Security: Direct integration of security measures with the TBD workflow guarantees smooth security scans and checks as part of the ongoing integration process.
- International Cooperation and Support for Remote Work: Modifying TBD procedures to more effectively facilitate remote work and international collaboration, with an emphasis on lowering obstacles to communication for dispersed teams.
- Immutable Infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Alignment of TBD with new paradigms such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Immutable Infrastructure, with a focus on versioning and configuration management of infrastructure changes within the main branch.
Trunk-Based Development in Software Development
In earlier days of software development, programmers didn’t have the richness of modern version control systems but they developed two versions of their software concurrently as it means of monitoring small changes and backing them if possible and only in necessary conditions. As time increases it has become more costly, and inefficient.
At present various version control systems are developed and managed. It made it more mature, and various departments have merged which enables programmers to find bugs or errors more easily. As of today most developers hold one of the two development models in order to deliver quality software which is Git flow and trunk-based development. Trunk-based development is an additional open model since all developers have easier access to the main code which also enables teams to implement CI/CD and so on.