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AccuRev update lets it scale to larger enterprises


By Jeff Feinman
September 24, 2008 — 
AccuRev has made its namesake software configuration manager more scalable to serve large enterprises.

AccuRev 4.7, released yesterday, can now implement commodity servers locally or remotely and tie them into AccuRev, allowing it to handle growth within an organization, according to the company. AccuRev can now scale to thousands of users, and thousands of developers can use and share code across multiple projects.

“It’s a combination of replication and caching for the servers,” said Cliff Utstein, vice president of sales and marketing for AccuRev. “All the metadata is replicated across all the servers, and then the first instance of each asset—source code, binaries—is pulled to the additional servers, and each additional access to the assets is all done off the second server. It’s a hybrid best of both worlds, where every server has the current state of the project automatically because that’s the metadata, and it moves around from server to server very quickly. The files and assets, which are often much larger, move as needed.”

AccuRev’s ability to handle large workspaces has been increased so that individual developer workspaces can handle hundreds of thousands of files. A “personalized visual filtering” feature gives managers a customized view into the development process and changes in the project. Users select the aspects of the project that are of interest through a dialog box in the graphical user interface.

“If I’m only interested in X, Y and Z, I only see X, Y and Z, and monitor them on an ongoing basis,” Utstein said. “I can also make changes as needed to the project represented by X,Y or Z right from the graphical interface. I can manage it, change it and enforce it in just the areas I’m interested in.”

The update comes almost exactly a year after the previous AccuRev release, which introduced change package dependencies to let developers manage sets of issues and track dependencies among large software projects. Anyone working remotely can view the dependencies.

Version 4.6 also introduced VersionSlider, which shows developers graphically how source code files have changed. AccuRev said that VersionSlider removes the need to annotate operations on previous versions of files and that code reviews can be performed quickly.


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