Upgrading from Subversion to AccuRev SCM
Getting by with Subversion
As an open source tool, Subversion is appealing to many development groups due to its free licensing and simplicity for developers. Subversion works well for small teams with a simple software development model. But often times teams grow and, in many cases, become geographically distributed. And at the same time, the demands on parallel development grow, with more products with more features, quicker releases, more releases to maintain, and customer-specific releases. When this happens, the lack of functionality in Subversion to support parallel development becomes apparent. To compensate, teams start writing wrappers around Subversion to manage the increasingly complex processes. Soon, the man power needed to write and maintain these scripts becomes cost prohibitive and the need for a more powerful SCM tool is recognized.
Download Your Free Trial of AccuRev TodayThis document compares AccuRev to Subversion. AccuRev is the only software configuration management (SCM) system that enables and integrates any development methodology (such as Agile, Waterfall, and RUP) with an organization’s existing software assets. Subversion is an open source tool providing easy version control for small projects with limited process needs but lacks the necessary functionality to handle the SCM requirements of larger, distributed teams.
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In this report Upside Research provides context for answering those questions and analyze a composite scenario of an organization that has used both types of solutions, based on interviews with enterprise developers and industry research.
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