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 “Overcoming Resistance to Change by SCM”
By Ben Weatherall
“As an industry, SCM is conservative – we hold the corporate jewels in
our hands and we are reluctant to let either processes, procedures or
personnel have a chance to mess them up. In fact, when they do get messed up
we tend to lose our jobs. Then along came Agile and the need to support it
while maintaining both technical and professional integrity.”
“Some of the old ve... (more)
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 a keynote presentation from Brian Bo... (more)
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 free
of charge.
The se... (more)
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 optimize the
software developmen... (more)
By Wayne Blair, Senior Consulting Release Engineer and Development
Facilitator
Introduction
This article describes a method to use a perl debugger on trigger scripts
without advanced interprocess debugging tools.
Using a perl debugger with a V4.x server side trigger launched by the server
is very difficult and encounters two known obstacles:
The server will fire the trigger and the debugg... (more)