I sometimes find that algorithms are like buses. I spend ages looking for a good algorithm to solve a problem, and then two come along at once.

This is a pretty short introduction to using CVS on a small-ish project. The scope covers basic versioning tasks (adding, removing, check-in, check-out) and goes up to very basic multi-user access tasks (branching and merging).

This article is based on an overview that I wrote to help introduce developers on a pilot project to unit testing. It covers the strategic reasons for using unit tests and the tactics of writing a unit test harness using the freely available JUnit framework to minimise the work involved.