AccuRev Training Videos

The training modules listed here provide all of the information you need to get started using AccuRev. The accompanying AccuRev Getting Acquainted Guide gives you corresponding click-by-click instructions for using AccuRev.

After walking through the server and client installations, you will learn how to populate a "depot" — a repository of files under AccuRev version control. You will then go through typical Developer and Release Engineer experiences using AccuRev software configuration management, followed by setup of AccuWork, AccuRev's integrated issue management system.

The training modules do not attempt to provide comprehensive explanations of product features. For full details, see the AccuRev documentation set or contact your AccuRev sales representative for more information about training options .

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AccuRev Concepts

This section explains some basic concepts and terminology in AccuRev

Session 1 -- The AccuRev Client/Server Architecture (2:03)

Session 2 -- AccuRev Concepts and Definitions (3:58)

Initial Set up

In this section, you will use the Quick Setup Wizard to create a user, depot, and private workspace and import code into the depot.
This section follows the Getting Acquainted Guide Section A.

Session 3 -- Importing Code Using the Quick Set Up Wizard (3:44)

Developer Experience (16:31)

This section shows how to use the gui to access source code and steps you through the "happy path"--keep, promote, update, and merge. These are the basic commands that developers need to know in order to work in their private workspaces. This section follows the Getting Acquainted Guide Section B.

Session 4 -- Creating a Second Workspace (3:41)

Session 5 -- Editing and checking in code (5:47)

Session 6 -- Getting code that others have checked in and merging in changes (7:02)

Release Engineer/ Quality Engineer Experience (30:58)

This section goes through how to use dynamic streams for different staging areas and how to create snapshots in order to label code that goes into a build or release. It covers the scenarios that release and quality engineers typically encounter. This section following the Getting Acquainted Guide Section C.

Session 7 -- Understanding streams and creating streams and snapshots from the gui (4:39)

Session 8 -- Reparenting a workspace and promoting changes to the new backing stream (2:59)

Session 9 -- Promoting changes from a child stream to its parent (3:25)

Session 10 -- Creating a second snapshot (0:39)

Session 11 -- Seeing differences between streams and snapshots (2:06)

Session 12 -- Showing inheritance in the stream hierarchy (2:16)

Session 13 -- Using a time basis to block inheritance (3:23)

Session 14 -- Using a time-based stream to reproduce the last good build (1:26)

Session 15 -- Seeing the history of the repository (2:24)

Session 16 -- Patching a previous release (3:06)

Session 17 -- Promoting across the stream hierarchy (5:07)

AccuWork Example Usage (22:58)

This section shows you how to set up an AccuWork schema, create and modify issues, and create private and public queries to easily find issues. It also describes what change packages are and shows you how to set up the change package integration and use change packages.
This section following the Getting Acquainted Guide Section D.

Session 18 -- Basic overview of the AccuWork issue management system (3:43)

Session 19 -- Using the default schema for AccuWork (9:38)

Session 20 -- Creating new issues in AccuWork (1:48)

Session 21 -- Creating queries in AccuWork (3:54)

Session 22 -- Enabling and using change packages (7:29)

Session 23 -- Removing the change package trigger (0:50)

AccuRev Version 4.5 Training Updates

This section provides an overview of the important enhancements contains within AccuRev version 4.5. More information can be found in 4.5 release notes and documentation. For further information on AccuRev Training please contact support@accurev.com.

Security Enhancements -- Overview of the changes within version 4.5

Exclusive Locking -- Overview of per element exclusive locking

Cross Links -- Overview of component library and file linking

Revert by Change Package -- Overview of patch-level change management improvements

AccuRev Version 4.6 Training Updates