AccuRev is a leading provider of software change & configuration management solutions.

Collaborate geographically distributed development teams efficiently:

Software development today is more complex than it was 20, 10 or even 5 years ago. Companies routinely perform software development in one or more locations, testing in another location, and release and packaging in yet another. This distribution of resources strains the software development infrastructure and raises security, intellectual property, auditing and compliance issues. AccuRev provides the innovative AccuReplica solution to assist companies in managing globally distributed development, whether it is between wholly owned locations of one company, or between company sites and independent offshore consulting sites.

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.