Developers Choice - IDE Studies: Over 1200 Developers Rate the Features of the Top IDEs

Source Control Management Systems
2007 Rankings

How do the top SCMs stack up?

  • How do their change request management techniques compare?
  • Which one has the best artifact traceability?
  • Is one SCM's support for geographically distributed teams better than another?
  • Do they collaborate well with other tools?
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This report examines the opinions and attitudes of developers who use the top commercial SCM products as well as leading open source version control solutions. Developers only ranked the products they had used, making these ratings fair and unbiased.

SCMs Ranked Include:

  • CVS
  • IBM Clearcase/Clearquest
  • MS Visual Sourcesafe
  • MS Visual Studio Team System
  • Perforce
  • Serena/PCVS
  • Subversion
  • StarTeam

  

Ranking Categories:

  • Change Management
  • Ease and granularity of access control
  • Administrative overhead
  • Branching, or streams
  • Performing releases
  • Merge tracking
  • Server usage
  • Bug tracking
  • Artifact traceability
  • Scalability
  • Performance
  • Support for geographically distributed development
  • Speed of check-in/check-out
  • Value for the price
  • Integration with other tools
  • Security

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