Leading Ecommerce Development Teams Use AccuRev

Ecommerce companies live in a fast-paced development world. Competition is fierce and the internet has forever changed the way consumers purchase goods. The internet has become the primary method of purchasing many types of items, from books and cds to insurance, ecommerce has become part of our culture and way of life. To most ecommerce companies, the inventory system, website and payment processing is directly tied to the top dollar and performance of the company. This means that development teams must spend a significant amount of resources innovating technology that helps make sure these websites are full-featured, fast and error-free. AccuRev provides the range of capabilities to address the needs for development teams building ecommerce sites or applications.

Parallel Development

Often teams working in an ecommerce environment will have many components and teams under the covers that make their website work. This could range from UI developers, applications, reservation systems, rewards points, databases or interfacing with other vendors like Sabre or credit card processing. All of these teams may develop at a different pace or cadence meaning they will need to work in parallel and release when they are ready.

Parallel development in AccuRev is fast and easy. Multiple teams and projects work in a fully-auditable dynamic process. AccuRev captures and controls relationships between code bases in parallel effort using a stream-based architectures. This allows teams to safely work at their own pace before sharing it with others, quickly and easily merging code and inheriting changes from other teams.
 

"Our release turnaround was reduced from months to days. Parallel development was increasingly difficult, with time-consuming merge points costing the organization hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. The organization used to plan for four man-days, per developer, per year to merge code; Now it takes developers just minutes to accomplish the equivalent tasks."
 

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Drag and Drop Releases

Many times there are multiple versions or releases to a website that need to be made. During the course of a release cycle it will be important to distinguish finished code versus unverified code for a release. This means that eCommerce teams have integrate code changes successfully to a release branch to achieve this goal. It can be a manual error-prone process in order to get even get the simplest change out the door.

AccuRev allows you to easily see what's going into each release. AccuRev integrates with all best-of-breed issue tracking systems meaning that creating a release stream is easy with a "drag and drop". Users can choose what issues are needed from each component of the release and drag each completed issue to the release stream, bringing all the code changes and history with it.

Distributed Teams

Ecommerce teams require intimate team communication, rapid feedback, collaboration and code integration. AccuRev connects teams regardless of their location, geography or language with distributed replicas. AccuRev's distributed SCM makes sure that's teams are connected, efficient and unified. Beyond simply providing access for all users AccuRev's replica technology enables sophisticated scaling of development methods to drive and scale process across your teams.