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Visualize and dynamically manage your software development process:

Software development today is more complex than at any time in the relatively brief history of computing. New technologies mature faster, product delivery cycles are shorter, teams are working in parallel in multiple locations, and customers are more demanding. Building quality software at reasonable cost requires a balance between hiring and retaining talented engineers, gathering meaningful product requirements from customers, choosing a development toolset, and orchestrating the engineering activities via the software development process. These tools include:

•Software Configuration Management (SCM), Issue Tracking (ITS), and Build Management (including continuous integration and unit test)
•Agile project management (where applicable)

The "right-sized" Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution:

Software development organizations today are wrestling with many critical decisions regarding selection of development tools, and none may be as important as whether to select a single-vendor application lifecycle management (ALM) solution, or to go with a best-of-breed approach. These choices are often difficult because each group within the organization may have different criteria on which they are basing their answer to this question, and both have their advantages.

The analysts’ choice for replacing ClearCase:

Getting by with ClearCase. Our development process is generally stable and working today, but of course it could be improved to meet your current development requirements if you only had the time to write the necessary scripts. Developers basically know how to get their job done with ClearCase and generally follow the documented software development process, yet they wouldn't describe ClearCase as something they truly like using, or even fully understand how to use. There may be some level of integration between ClearCase and your issue/defect tracking solution; however, it is not what you would consider to be an optimally efficient workflow.

Quickly adopt continuous integration and other agile processes:

Continuous integration, one of the foundational aspects of Agile software development methodologies, is defined by Martin Fowler to be "a fully automated and reproducible build, including testing, that runs many times a day. This allows each developer to integrate daily, thus reducing integration problems." By extending the idea of a nightly build, where code changes are built and tested nightly, continuous integration helps reduce integration problems and identify and resolve problems more quickly. With continuous integration, developers are encouraged to update the shared source code repository frequently, ideally several times per day.

SourceAnywhere

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:36:21 GMT

•Enhanced Security
It uses SSL and Blowfish encryption to protect code while in transit and the client/server architecture eliminates the need to expose the file system to remote users. The security of the password is the frontline of any system. The built-in password policy of SourceAnywhere for VSS can be enforced to protect your SourceSafe password.
•Up to 100 Times Faster than Visual SourceSafe (VSS) remotely
VSS web access is too slow. SourceAnywhere for VSS features "delta transfers" to transmit only the incremental changes between files, fast transfer compression, plus a Cache Server to reduce file transfer over the internet.
•Visual Studio, Eclipse, Dreamweaver and other MSSCCI Compatible IDE integration
SourceAnywhere for VSS can be fully integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio 6/2003/2005/2008. It also supports Eclipse integration on Windows and other operating systems. Integration with Dreamweaver, Flash, Flex and other MSSCCI compatible IDEs are supported.
•Cross-platform
Besides native Windows client, the Java client extends Visual SourceSafe (VSS) to other platforms, such as Linux, Max, Solaris and AIX.
•Build Automation
SourceAnywhere for VSS integrates with CruiseControl.NET and ANT to provide continuous integration and automatic build support.
•Less Database Corruption
During lengthy remote operations, one network glitch can leave your SourceSafe database corrupted. SourceAnywhere for VSS significantly reduces the database corruption by transferring the files to the server first then operating on your Visual SourceSafe (VSS) database in LAN.

Features are:

•High performance SourceSafe remote/internet access
•Windows GUI client and command line client
•Cache Server for your geographically distributed teams
•128-bit SSL and Blowfish encryption
•Java SDK and COM SDK
•Password policy to protect your password
•Eclipse plug-in
•Java client for cross platform
•Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash plug-in
•Ant and CruiseControl.NET plug-in
•Delta transfer technology for high performance
•Visual Studio plug-in

SourceAnywhere for VSS is a client/server application. It consists of a Server, Cache Server (optional) and several types of Client. They communicate over any standard TCP/IP connection, including a PPP connection over a modem, an ISDN line, or an Ethernet connection on the same LAN as the Server. SourceAnywhere for VSS does not require Windows Remote Access Service (RAS). The client-server architecture eliminates many problems of Visual SourceSafe, which is file-system based, in remote access. For Visual SourceSafe (VSS), to share Visual SourceSafe (VSS) documents, you have to share the whole Visual SourceSafe (VSS) database folder, even if you only wish to share a single file in the database. Sharing the database folders totally exposes your valuable data to the outside, which may potentially cause the data to be copied or damaged. Especially in remote access, it is almost unconceivable. Also, accessing the file system in a remote environment is very slow. In Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere for VSS, the Visual SourceSafe (VSS) database folder is only exposed to the SourceAnywhere for VSS Server. The client sends requests to the server and gets the result back. The security and performance are greatly improved. Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere for VSS 5 introduces Cache Server for distributed developments.

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