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?
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:
- AccuRev
- CVS
- Git
- IBM ClearCase
- IBM Team Concert
- IBM Rational Change
- IBM Rat Synergy
- Microfocus
- MS VS Team System
- MS SourceSafe
- Perforce
- Serena PVCS
- Subversion
Ranking Categories:
- Performance
- File Locking
- Change Management
- Security
- Support for Iterative Development
- Support for Geographically Dist Dev
- Ease and Granularity of Access
- Integration with other Development Tools
- Merge Tracking
- Defect Tracking
- Administrative Overhead
- Scalability
- Artifact traceability
- Performing Releases
Worldwide in scope and unbiased in approach, this insightful report is not to be missed.
