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AccuRev Builds Bridges to Third-Party Tools


By David Rubinstein
February 15, 2006 — 
Version 4.0 of the AccuRev software configuration management solution, released late last month, includes for the first time out-of-the-box integrations with third-party issue tracking tools.

The first integration, which will carry the AccuBridge name, is for Serena TeamTrack. Others are forthcoming for Bugzilla, MKS Integrity Manager and Rational ClearQuest. According to Cliff Utstein, AccuRev’s vice president of marketing, AccuBridge takes the coding-scripting problem associated with integrating products from different vendors and turns it into a more simple mapping function.

In AccuRev 4.0, which costs US$1,495 for a single-user license, the issue tracking and change management piece formerly called AccuRev Dispatch is now called AccuWork, and gives the ability to more easily link changes to tasks. An automatic change-package merging feature enables users to specify and promote change packages into multiple projects simultaneously, effectively eliminating regressions, Utstein claimed.

He explained that AccuBridge SDKs for the third-party tools are built on AccuRev’s Integration Service and include a Java API. An XML mapping file within AccuBridge enables users to set destination conditions for where data from a third-party issue tracking system should go in the AccuWork schema and issue repository. Or, users can simply map the field from the third-party tool to a field name in AccuWork; the AccuRev Integration Service verifies the field name exists in the AccuWork schema and assigns the associated value when updating the issue in the destination depot.

“We don’t try to be a one-stop shop,” said Lorne Cooper, AccuRev president. “There are a lot of good tools out there. We try to provide strategic flexibility to let folks use their tools of choice.”

Tighter integration
Other enhancements to AccuRev 4.0 include tighter integration with Eclipse and Microsoft’s Visual Studio development environments, with plug-ins now carrying the AccuBridge brand. Also, Utstein said the company made “significant improvements” to the AccuRev Replication Server, now called AccuReplica. This gives managers the ability to oversee globally distributed development teams by offering specific, selective replication. For instance, if an organization is working on seven projects, a manager can replicate just the project a development team is working on and deny access to the other projects, Utstein explained.

AccuRev’s notion of SCM includes streams, which are the multiple paths code goes down from creation to release, management and updating. The StreamBrowser that comes with version 4.0 now has the ability to perform zooming, which means users can go from the high-level view of projects the browser provides to a more focused view of only those projects the user needs to see.


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