Get Productive. Parallel Or Concurrent.
Multiple development streams & integrated defect tracking. From Eclipse or Visual Studio.
Work In Parallel
Parallel development is a fact of life. Your developers work on the next major release to address requirements while the maintenance team is working on patch releases to correct issues. At one point they were on the same code line, but now they're branching like it's spring. And right when they're done branching, things need to get merged again. Not easy! But help is on the way. Serena Dimensions CM supports parallel development like no one else. Support as many streams as you need and get all the tools for branching, promotion, and merging you need. Built right in to make development much more productive.
Work In Eclipse Or Visual Studio
One key to better quality is to learn the lessons of the past, or, incorporate the bug fixes of the older releases. That means the fixes done by the maintenance team should merge into the next major release. That takes smart parallel development to make it work. And, Dimensions CM does the job. For multiple development teams working on different modules, integration could be a nightmare. Resolving conflicts takes up a lot of QA effort. Stream-based development in Dimensions guides you through the landmines and your QA team can get the integration build up and running quickly.
Integrated Defect Tracking
If you use PVCS Version Manager you probably use TeamTrack to manage defects. The two are integrated so you can easily tag your code check-in's with the defect number. We've done the same with Dimensions. The new version of TeamTrack—Issue & Defect Management—is tightly integrated with Dimensions CM. And both are accessible from Eclipse and Visual Studio so we can maximize your developer productivity.
