Latest News from AccuRev Magazine

Viewtier Introduces Continuous Integration for Git

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:52:55 EST

Viewtier Systems today announced availability of Continuous Integration for Git, a free and open source distributed version control system. Integration of Parabuild and Git is available immediately.

Coverity Introduces Best Practices for Static Analysis in Agile Development

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:00:55 EST

Multi-city seminar series to provide best practices for using static analysis in agile development; Coverity poll finds majority of developers still researching or piloting agile methods

AccuRev Launches AgileCycle Suite for Agile ALM (Application Lifecycle Management)

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:16:36 EST

AccuRev, Inc. today announced AgileCycle, the first fully-integrated best-of-breed Agile ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) solution incorporating Software Configuration Management, Agile Lifecycle Management, and Build and Release Management. AgileCycle consists of the award winning software development tools AccuRev Enterprise, AnthillPro, and Rally Enterprise, delivering a comprehensive Agile suite for scaling and optimizing the Agile software development process.

Agile Journal Seminar Series: Next Stop Los Angeles

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:58:36 EST

AccuRev joins with Coverity, Electric Cloud, Rally Software and BigVisible in bringing the Agile Journal Seminar Series to Los Angeles on December 17, 2009. The seminar focuses on promoting Agile tools and techniques in order to optimize the software development process. The event agenda includes a keynote presentation from Agile Coach and Co-Founder of BigVisible Solutions, [...]

Overcoming Resistance to Change by SCM

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:25:41 EST

We ran across the article “Overcoming Resistance to Change by SCM” by Ben Weatherall on CMCrossroads. The excerpts below exemplify the need for tools like AccuRev that support changing processes and Agile adoption. Ben Weatherall has kindly allowed us to re-post these excerpts so that we may share his insight with all our readers. Excerpts from [...]

Damon Poole to Speak at Nashua Scrum Club Meeting

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:16:23 EST

AccuRev CTO, Damon Poole, is the featured speaker for Nashua Scrum Club’s November meeting on the topic “Scrum and Kanban: Chocolate and Peanut Butter?” The Scrum Club is a professional organization where people can learn and apply Agile project management and advanced technical practices while giving back to the community. This event provides a great [...]

Agile Journal Seminars Come to Boston and New Jersey

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:40:54 EST

AccuRev joins with Coverity, BigVisible, Electric Cloud and VersionOne in bringing the Agile Journal Seminar Series to Waltham, MA and Newark, NJ on November 10 and 11, 2009. These seminars provide a great opportunity for attendees to learn more about Agile best practices and explore industry-leading software tools in a local forum. The agenda includes [...]

Agile Journal Seminar Series: Next Stop Santa Clara

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:14:37 EST

AccuRev will be joining with Coverity, Electric Cloud, Enthiosys and Rally Software in bringing the upcoming Agile Journal Live Seminar to Santa Clara, CA on Thursday, November 5, 2009. This event provides a unique opportunity for participants to learn more about Agile software development best practices and explore industry-leading software tools in a local forum [...]

Agile Journal Live Seminar Series Continues in Raleigh, NC

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:14:22 EDT

AccuRev will be participating in the next seminar of the Agile Journal Live Seminar Series being held in Raleigh, NC on October 28, 2009. AccuRev joins with other leading providers of Agile software development solutions including Coverity, Electric Cloud, and Rally Software in sponsoring this event which focuses on promoting Agile tools and techniques to [...]

Now Shipping HP Quality Center 10.0 Integration

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:37:25 EDT

AccuRev has announced it is now shipping the HP Quality Center 10.0 integration. With this integration, developers and quality assurance professionals can leverage AccuRev software configuration management (SCM) capabilities while optimizing their existing investment in the quality management functionality of HP Quality Center 10.0. The integration offers a solution that improves the traceability of development [...]

Damon Poole to Speak at Upcoming SPIN Meeting

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:10:32 EDT

AccuRev CTO, Damon Poole, is the featured speaker for the upcoming Boston SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) meeting on the topic “Is Agile Software Development Really any Better?” This will be an evening of Agile discussions and pizza and provides an excellent opportunity for networking and the exchange of Agile process improvement experiences. Date: Tuesday October [...]

Visit the AccuRev Booth Online at the ALM Expo 2009

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:01:07 EDT

AccuRev will be exhibiting in the Application Lifecycle Management Conference and Exposition, ALM Expo 2009, on Thursday, October 15. This free, virtual conference and technology showcase put on by CM Crossroads, Agile Journal and CMC Media will feature Agile best practices and ALM solutions in the current economic climate. Visitors can explore product information, view [...]

ALM Expo 2009 - Agile and ALM in the New Economy

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:33:20 EDT

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vim4accurev – New Release (v1.1)

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:05:44 EDT

I’m happy to announce that the latest official version of the AccuRev SCM plugin for Vim is now available! Download release 1.1 here. Major features include: on-demand plugin enable/disable (aka Airplane Mode) support annotate/blame launching stream browser and graphical merge ability to edit files and identify AccuRev workspace regardless of current working directory updated docs This version of the plugin requires Vim 7.x [...]

Urbancode Brings Painless Source Code Analysis To Enterprise Continuous Integration

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:30:49 EDT

AnthillPro 3.7 The First Enterprise Build & Deployment Automation Solution To Support The Seven Most Widely Used Source Code Analysis Tools

Hot Backups and Database Verification Without Down Time

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:59:55 EDT

By Wayne Blair, Senior Consulting Release Engineer and Development Facilitator Hot backups are wonderful but one needs two important sanity checks on the backup: Was this a good backup? Is the live database okay or did we just backup a corrupted repository? Unfortunately AccuRev v4.x cannot perform a database integrity check on the running repository so you have to [...]

Viewtier Systems Announces Load Balancing and Failover for Build Farm

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:00:48 EDT

2009 Java One - Viewtier Systems today announced the release of Parabuild 4.0. This major release introduces automatic load balancing and transparent fail-over for build farm, and over 40 new features and enhancements.

AccuRev 5.0 — Some Features of the New Architecture

Fri, 29 May 2009 17:20:27 EDT

The new AccuRev beta release is customer’s first look at Version 5.0 of the AccuRev server. The key new element has been porting the AccuRev server to an ODBC database. Initial reports show that this will provide enhanced scalability and more flexible IT architectures that large AccuRev deployments have been looking for, without degrading the one-user path length.

Pattern for Versioning Generated Objects

Tue, 05 May 2009 15:51:20 EDT

After building your software, do you check-in your generated binary files? How about the output from test runs? If your software runs on multiple platforms or your test runs take hours/days to execute, you may want to consider storing the output — especially if binary reproducibility is critical. Example. Consider shipping an application to a customer [...]

AccuRev Teams Up with VersionOne on Agile Webinar Series

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:45:53 EDT

AccuRev CTO, Damon Poole, is a guest speaker for an Agile webinar series, Agile 101: Laying the Foundation for Agile Development, presented by VersionOne. Damon will be presenting this Wednesday on the following topic, and again on April 1 to discuss The Algorithms and Architecture of Agile vs. Traditional Software Development. Breaking the Major Release Habit March [...]

AccuRev Announces IBM Rational ClearCase Upgrade Program

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:11:00 EST

AccuRev's ClearCase® Upgrade Program allows organizations using ClearCase to purchase AccuRev for less than the cost of their current IBM Rational maintenance agreement. Additionally, it provides a proven coexistence and migration strategy enabling ClearCase users to adopt AccuRev at their own pace.

AccuRev and Smart Bear Advance Code Review and Software Development Processes for Joint Customers

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:45:00 EST

The combined solution of Smart Bear Code Collaborator and AccuRev makes code review a natural extension of the software development process within AccuRev, seamlessly enabling peer code review when, where, and how a development team wants.

Ulitzer.com Launches AccuRev Magazine

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:15:00 EST

AccuRev is a US-based software vendor focused on optimizing and automating the software development process for organizations challenged with today's highly evolving geographically distributed, parallel and Agile software development environments. More than 500 organizations around the world rely on AccuRev software to develop, release and maintain their mission critical applications. .

AccuRev and Go2Group Partner on Software Development Release

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:00:00 EST

AccuRev and The Go To Group (Go2Group) announced today that they have joined forces to accelerate the software release process of AccuRev customers investing in a best-of-breed software change and configuration management (SCCM) strategy. Go2Group was certified through AccuRev’s A.C.E. program (AccuRev Certified Engineer), preparing the company to deliver additional services to AccuRev customers including those responsible for large scale AccuRev deployments.

AccuRev And Coverity Help Developers Improve Code Quality And Security

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:30:00 EDT

AccuRev and Coverity have announced a new technology partnership that will help software development teams to improve the quality and security of their applications in today’s fast paced agile development environments. Leading development organizations rely on Coverity’s advanced source code analysis products to ensure the integrity of their code and AccuRev’s process-centric software configuration management products to automate and accelerate their development processes.

AccuRev Selected by Avid

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:00:00 EDT

AccuRev announced that Avid Technology has standardized on AccuRev for software development process management. Avid selected AccuRev after an evaluation of providers to support multiple cross-platform development teams spread across several geographically distributed locations throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

AccuRev Adds Personalized Process Visualization Capabilities

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:33:00 EDT

AccuRev announced AccuRev 4.7 for process-centric software change and configuration management (SCCM), with major new scalability and personalized process visualization capabilities. These new capabilities enable enterprises to easily scale as development teams grow beyond thousands of users managing hundreds of thousands of assets. AccuRev improves a development organization’s ability to fully understand the dynamic relationships between projects, and drives maximum software code reuse.

AccuRev and Electric Cloud Host Austin and Dallas IT Seminars: Optimizing Your Development, Build and Release Processes

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:30:58 EDT

AccuRev Inc. and Electric Cloud, Inc. today announced seminars in Austin and Dallas, Texas aimed at solving the most significant challenges to effectively managing the build and release management process of software development.

AccuRev CTO Named President of Agile Bazaar Boston

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:01:34 EDT

AccuRev Inc. today announced its CTO, Damon Poole, was named President of the Agile Bazaar. This Boston-based professional Chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), chartered since August 2007, was originally formed by Ken Schwaber as the Agile Alliance New England User Group in 2002.

AccuRev and Rally Software Partner to Scale Agile Software Development Best Practices

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:00:00 EDT

AccuRev and Rally announced a technology partnership that will integrate AccuRev software change and configuration management (SCCM) with Rally's Agile lifecycle management solutions. The combined solution will provide a platform to manage multiple Agile processes and ongoing customer feedback, while improving visibility and requirements traceability between defects, issues and tasks and the actual source code changes made to address them.

AccuRev Selected by Mediasurface to Enhance Feature Driven Development (FDD)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:30:00 EDT

AccuRev announced that Mediasurface standardized on AccuRev for process-centric software change and configuration management (SCCM). As a result, development teams in the United Kingdom and Bangalore, India now work as a set of integrated teams for managing Feature Driven Development, its agile approach to manage the software release process.

AccuRev Leverages Web 2.0 Technology to Extend Process Management Reach across the Organization

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:30:27 EDT

AccuRev Inc. today announced a new AJAX-based Web Interface and a native integration with Microsoft Windows Explorer for its process-centric software change and configuration management (SCCM) solution. These new capabilities make it easy to integrate every knowledge worker into the development process and offer new ways to share information.

AccuRev Selected by PacketVideo to Enhance its Geographically Distributed Development Process

Mon, 12 May 2008 15:30:00 EDT

AccuRev Inc. today announced that PacketVideo (PV), the software innovator powering the world’s leading mobile multimedia services, has standardized on AccuRev for process-centric software configuration management (SCM) to enhance the efficiency and collaboration of its worldwide development organization.

AccuRev Selected by PacketVideo to Enhance its Geographically Distributed Development Process

Mon, 12 May 2008 13:45:00 EDT

AccuRev announced that PacketVideo (PV) has standardized on AccuRev for process-centric software configuration management (SCM) to enhance the efficiency and collaboration of its worldwide development organization. PV conducted an exhaustive evaluation of SCM solutions to replace its existing SCCM tool. AccuRev was chosen as it proved to be the best performer and for its ability to efficiently manage PV's geographically distributed software development release process, eliminate merging and branch mastership issues and substantially reduce administration and training costs.

AccuRev Makes Available Initial Release of Its Maven-SCM Plug-in for m2Eclipse

Tue, 06 May 2008 16:00:00 EDT

AccuRev announced the release of its process-centric software configuration management (SCM) plug-in for m2eclipse, the popular Maven plug-in for the Eclipse development environment. Maven is a Java project management and build automation tool used for building and managing any Java-based project to make the day-to-day work of Java developers easier and provide build and project management for any Java-based project.

Alaska Airlines Takes Off with AccuRev

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EDT

Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air together serve 92 cities through an expansive network throughout Alaska, the Lower 48, Hawaii, Canada and Mexico. Known for embracing innovative technology to improve the customer experience, Alaska Airlines has won numerous awards for its frequent flyer program and eCommerce Website.

AccuRev Further Aligns Innovative SCM Architecture with the Eclipse Integration Framework

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:00:00 EDT

AccuRev announced that customers are taking advantage of the new feature, usability and performance enhancements within its latest AccuBridge for Eclipse plug-in. AccuRev allows developers to access process-centric software configuration management (SCM) functionality directly within their familiar Eclipse IDE integration platform, enabling more familiar user interface options and increasing productivity.

AccuRev and Electric Cloud Partner to Advance Multistage Continuous Integration and Scalable Agile Best Practices

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:45:00 EST

AccuRev and Electric Cloud announced a technology partnership designed to improve software development productivity and efficiency. The combined solution, which integrates the automated build, test and deployment functionality of Electric Cloud's ElectricCommander software with process-enabled software configuration management (SCM) using AccuRev, advances multistage continuous integration and scalable agile best practices.

AccuRev Unveils SCM Coexistence Solution for ClearCase

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:00:00 EST

AccuRev announced the availability of AccuRev 4.6 for ClearCase, the latest add-on to its software configuration management (SCM) solution. AccuRev 4.6 for ClearCase provides coexistence for optimal support of parallel, geographically distributed and Agile development with AccuRev in existing ClearCase environments. This enables a coexistence strategy, where teams are able to use the most appropriate SCM solution for each group, project or user.

AccuRev Provides Developers More Power and Flexibility with Latest AccuBridge for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:15:00 EST

AccuRev now offers significantly more software configuration management (SCM) functionality, productivity and performance enhancements for its AccuBridge for Visual Studio 2005 plug-in directly in the Visual Studio IDE. AccuBridge for Visual Studio 2005, which now implements the SCC provider interfaces that are part of the Visual Studio packages, also adds significantly improved usability over the previous integration, which was based on the Microsoft Common Source Code Control Interface.

AccuRev Announces Full Support for VMware and Solaris 10 Zones Virtualization Software

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:30:00 EST

AccuRev announced that its best-of-breed software configuration management solution, AccuRev SCM, has been qualified to run on virtual machines. AccuRev has announced support for VMware® (NYSE:EMC), and Sun Solaris 10 Zones from Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW). Virtualization is rapidly becoming a standard piece of the deployment platform in IT organizations because the technology provides tangible benefits both in terms of capital cost reductions and operational flexibility. This is spurring CIOs to push for more rapid adoption of enterprise applications that fully support server virtualization.

Alaska Airlines Standardizes on AccuRev SCM for Consistent Process Automation and Collaboration

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:00:00 EST

AccuRev Inc. has announced that Alaska Airlines has standardized on AccuRev for process-centric software configuration management (SCM). Known for embracing innovative technology to improve the customer experience, Alaska Airlines chose AccuRev to be at the center of its best-of-breed application lifecycle management (ALM) strategy.

AccuRev Announces AccuRev 4.5 for Multivendor Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:00:00 EDT

AccuRev Inc. announces AccuRev 4.5, its software configuration (SCM) solution. This release adds new functionality that improves both the security and compliance of applications development, and the productivity of geographically distributed, outsourced or parallel development teams.

Accurev Leverages SCM With Open Source Defect Tracking System

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 05:00:00 EDT

AccuRev has integrated AccuRev, its best-of-breed software configuration management (SCM) solution, with Bugzilla, an open source defect tracking system. AccuRev and Bugzilla work together to tie the daily work of an organization's software development process to the issues managed in the issue tracking system.

AccuRev Integrates with Rational ClearQuest and MKS Integrity Manager

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:00:00 EST

AccuRev announced integration of AccuRev, its software configuration management solution, with two popular issue tracking and workflow tools, IBM Rational ClearQuest and MKS Integrity Manager. Utilizing its AccuBridge SDK as the platform for both of these integrations, AccuRev provides its customers with best-of-breed, leading-edge SCM technology with out-of-the-box support for these tools to significantly streamline development, increase agility, and improve team collaboration enterprise wide.

Software Configuration Management: AccuRev Joins Eclipse Foundation

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:00:00 EST

AccuRev has announced it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-In-Provider to further its support and influence on open source standards within the software configuration management (SCM) industry.

AccuRev Integrates with NetBeans IDE 3.6 Platform

Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

AccuRev, Inc. is integrating AccuRev with NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 3.6. AccuRev demonstrated this NetBeans integration at NetBeans Software Day, a companion event to the 2004 JavaOne Conference, on Tuesday, June 29.